My life has been art and art has been my life. I have never stopped transforming my thoughts and emotions into pictures that narrate many stories. I initiate them, and the spectator has to complete them.
-Ragini Upadhayay Grela
Visiting Nepali artist, Ragini Upadhyay Grela was Nepal's first woman Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts from 2014-2018. Educated in Lucknow, New Delhi, Aberdeen, Oxford, and Stuttgart she has had 63 solo exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, China, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Netherlands, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, and Thailand. This is her first visit to the United States. Selections of her paintings are on exhibition in Maxwell Library, third floor through March 20, 2022. You can learn more about Ragini's life and works here.