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Yashasvi paints very personal themes sprouting from existential queries that inquire into her thoughts on stifling social and religious boundaries. By making fantasy-based art that explores semi-mystical ideas metaphorically, she aims to create thoroughly immersive experiences that act as portals taking one through a journey of self-inquiry and plain visual delight. Artwork description: "Utopia to me is an awake society free of material bondage, focusing on inner development and moving together as a single beat."

https://www.instagram.com/yashasvi_mathis/

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Vishnu M Nair is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer known for his humorous and surreal illustrations. He is based out of New Delhi. Artwork description: "Sunday: Getting lost in a sketchbook is utopia for a bit." https://www.instagram.com/xishnu/

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Being an introvert, drawing became an instinctive way to express for Upasana. Even though most of her drawings are personal, she finds it interesting to see others find their own interpretations. A graduate from Srishti, Bangalore, she now lives and works in Delhi. She recently had her first exhibition in a small cafe in Mumbai and is currently working on a silent picture book. Artwork description: "It was perfect, but it wasn't." https://www.instagram.com/upasana_mehndiratta/

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Trusha is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Goa. She enjoys working at the intersection of art, design and culture and combining them into holistic experiences. With a keen eye for detail, Trusha appreciates craftsmanship and is fascinated by old world printing techniques like linotype and screen printing. She is a self-confessed retrophile who loves cats, enjoys touring on her bicycle and theorizing obscurities on endless cups of magic tea. Artwork description: "Our eternal search for perfection! Utopias are our ephemeral wormholes of safe spots, mystic adventures and idealistic musings." http://kaapiandcigarettes.tumblr.com/

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Taarika is a Mumbai based illustrator and visual artist. She draws inspiration from observations of daily life, finding elements of interest in the ordinary and translating them into her work. Artwork description: "Utopian society is commonly defined as a community possessing near perfect qualities. For my art piece, I wanted to highlight the misgivings of the very notion of ‘perfection.’ In a world that is so filled with error and imbalance, perfection must mean a measured, structured world fuelled by replicated experiences, identical occurrences and duplicated lives. This mechanical existence takes away from the spontaneity of error and the undiluted joy of the human experience. "Culture only thus commits suicide When to mourn its death Not a heart is left."  - Rifat Sarosh" https://www.instagram.com/taarikajohnart/

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Sundeep is a visual artist from Mumbai with an obsessive need to create visuals, tell stories and disorient people. Being bitten by the film bug, he struggled to find a mean between illustration and film making, and in the process stumbled upon animation. He has been making short animations ever since. Artwork description: "I am endlessly inspired by the cultural revolution of the 60's and 70's. For me, Utopia is a place with all my heroes in it."

https://www.instagram.com/sandy_bwoy/

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A self-taught Artist and Architect with a Master's degree in Sustainable Architecture, Sumedha is currently a resident artist at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Powai. Keenly interested in the transformation of the relationship between man and nature, almost all of her art is an expression for discovering the poetry that exists in the fabric of the life of a being and its connection with the environment. She's worked with The National Geographic traveller, Harper's Bazaar, Travel and Leisure, Juice Magazine, TEDx India, Full Circle Publications & Godrej. Artwork description: "Utopia is an imagined world, a virgin wilderness where all life forms exist in complete harmony. A paradise that follows a natural order."

https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellabar/

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Shrey is an illustrator, visual artist, graphic designer and founder of CatchyRey Design. Artwork description: "Drunk Party Animals. This is the perfect Utopian representation of animals in any world, my world not being any different."

https://www.instagram.com/shreypurohit/

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Sachin Kondhalkar is an independent illustrator and Visual Development Artist based in Mumbai. He has worked as a Visual Development Artist for feature and commercial films and as a freelance illustrator for publication houses and advertising agencies. Artwork description: "Utopia is a place in the mind. It is time not just space, a journey not just a destination, a moment not matter. A fleeting escape."

https://www.instagram.com/sachinkondhalkar/

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Rohan is a Graphic Designer/Illustrator from Calcutta. The primary source of his work is sound. He tries to capture the vibrancy and volatility of music and represent it on a pictorial ground. In this process of visual translation, he often faces obstacles but instead of taking a pause he presses on, unfurling his creativity further. He is also driven by pop culture, the appealing ideas that permeate the everyday lives of society. His works are a unique rendition of those ideas.

https://www.instagram.com/aliastraitor/

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Prateek is a graphic-artist and designer based in Bangalore. He loves to work with visual art and typography, blending in elements from his interest in letterforms, geometry, the occult, architecture, neon and retro-nostalgia. His work exhibits contrasting styles, often mixing 2D and 3D visuals, in a vibrant and bold manner, that aims to inspire and excite. Artwork description: "In the world of video gaming, it is possible to escape into one's own personal Utopia - an imaginative, limitless and exciting space." https://www.instagram.com/vatash/

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An NID graduate in Graphic Design, Pragun has been working in Gurgaon for the last two years and has a keen interest in calligraphy and hand-lettering. Artwork description: "Utopia is like a beautiful chaos. It moves, it flows and it has a unique rhythm, and I imagine myself to be right at the centre of it."

https://www.instagram.com/pragunagarwal/

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Nikunj Patel is an independent animator, graphic artist and VJ operating out of Mumbai & Ahmedabad. His work has strong inclinations towards music and traditional 2D frame by frame animation. He also draws inspiration through his personal experiments with food and music. Artwork description: "Utopia in a universal sense is impossible to attain because everyone's idea of utopia is disparate. Conflict occurs when one idea of an ideal world clashes with another." https://www.instagram.com/nikunj2799/

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Nathaniel Stone is an artist that barley exists. If you are lucky you can find his drawings and animations in virtual and physical environments.

https://www.instagram.com/iamnotstoned/

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Oddball is an independent studio that specialises in design for play and all things odd and wonderful. The studio’s work is a hybrid of design, illustration, product, and events. Nalisha Chouraria is the founder of this non-traditional studio, which is currently based in Sweden. Whether it was the irregular toys she made for children that are sick of cute, or her designs and illustrations for which she won several awards – a recurring theme in her work is the uncanny. She likes to leverage the unfamiliar, and work outside of her comfort zone. Artwork description: "Have you ever fantasised about sitting on a bed of clouds, floating from place to place and keeping an eye on the world? Or ever wondered what it would be like, if our bodies transformed into weightless bodies of cloud?"

http://studiooddball.com/ 

http://nalishac.com/

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Artwork description: 'Utopia is a state of mind, it is not where we are heading but where we originated from."

https://www.instagram.com/sochalaya/

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Matt Lee is an artist and illustrator from the UK currently based in Bangalore. He uses drawing, collage and photography to examine processes for constructing, framing and manipulating visual messages. His work has been published by Gestalten, Creative Review and The Guardian and has exhibited across North America, Europe and Asia, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Mall Galleries in London. Artwork description: "On a never-ending journey in search of an ideal place, we find joy and meaning along the way."

https://www.instagram.com/mattrdlee/