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Kavita was born in India, raised in the US, and lives in South Carolina.

"Bali is the kind of artist whose passion for artistic integrity and the creative process is unbounded and infectious." -- India West magazine. San Francisco, CA. (March 2002)

"Kavita Bali captures the world with a definitive eye, stopping the flow of time and space through her lenses. She shares with us some transcendental moments, where the feminine body locates itself against a world that parades at times against a canvass of demands, and in other times, strolls in the lazy glow of memory." -- Chinatown Community Arts Program, Roger T. Lee, Mhs. San Francisco, CA. (July 2000)

Artistic Journey:

Contemporary Fine Artist and Visual Poet Kavita Bali moved to the United States from Allahabad, India in 1971, with an insatiable appetite for creativity, knowledge and exploration. An intermedia artist working in visual arts, design, film, experimental performance and poetry, she's been involved in the creation of art for over twenty years. Discovery is the fuel which empowers her creativity.

Having relocated from California to the Upstate in 2008, Kavita is honored to be part of the Pendleton Street Arts District in Greenville and looks forward to sharing her art with the community. Please stop by to visit her Urban Peacock Studio located at the Village Studios & Gallery on First Fridays or by appointment to see her latest creations.

Bali’s paintings are created with a quiet intensity, a desire to communicate with the visual language she knows best. Her artistic mediums may shift, however, the potency and purity of her emotions never falter. She refers to her art as emotional expressionism due to it's deep rooted, inner origins. She continually delves deeper into the realms of intangibles, to reveal the dancing of her soul.

Bali has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and spent two years in the Graduate Film Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before delving into the interactive world of the Internet in 1995. Today she is redefining herself and her career as she enters a new dimension of creativity in life.

Some History:

Bali’s paintings are part of private collections, primarily in California and New York, and have been on display locally at the Upstate Visual Arts. She has been honored by Artist Residencies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and at the WORKS Gallery in San Jose. She's been part of group exhibitions at the d.p. fong Gallery, WORKS Gallery, SOMARTS Gallery, CBS MarketWatch and various venues in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Her short films have been screened at the San Francisco World Affairs Council, Venue 9, Artist Television Access, SOMARTS Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture, LOCUS 1640 Post and Mango Mic at PUSOD in Oakland. Bali has also lectured/ screened her films at The University of California Berkeley, Seattle’s Northwest Asian American Film Festival, The University of California in Los Angeles, Theater Off Jackson at the Oseao Studios in Seattle, Washington, The Everest Theater in Dallas, Texas and at The University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Here, in addition to sharing her films, art and poetry, Kavita also spoke to graduate business students about integrating design practices into the product development cycle based on her career insights in the evolving field of Interaction Design.

Classically trained in Design with a heavy Bauhaus influence, Bali received her B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she was exposed to a conceptually rigorous program. She studied color theory with established painters Gerry Immonen and Aki Nurosi, Semiotics with Michael Rock, and photography with Henry Horenstein in the mid-1980's.

In 1986, Bali was fortunate to attend a Study Abroad program at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland allowing her the opportunity to explore the museums of Paris and Florence. Bali later spent two years in the M.F.A Film Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (1993-1995) where she was mentored by Czech film master Vojtech Jasny, who encouraged the sensitivity and spirituality of her creative voice.

Intrigued by the dawn of the Internet in the early 1990's, Bali soon left film school to venture into the world of information design where she created navigational journeys and user experiences which would simplify access to technology for people online.

Today, she continues along this path as a Design Consultant working as a User Experience Architect specializing in Information and Navigation Design as her primary form of sustenance, relishing the intellectually collaborative environment and innovative challenges associated with such a pioneering terrain.

Bali creates under the philosophy that there are no limits to what one can achieve, that limits are artificial. "If you can imagine an idea," she says, "you can make it happen. Getting to the point where you can imagine the idea comes through observation, analysis and interpretation. And that comes from the number of ways that you can see. The only true limit is how far your perseverance will take you."

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(Updated: July 29, 2010)

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