Harshit Agrawal

Harshit Agrawal is an Indian artist working with emerging technologies, primarily artificial intelligence (AI). His practice explores the poetics of technology within our posthuman existence, examining both its critical challenges and creative possibilities. He is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab, USA, and IIT Guwahati. He was Google Arts and Culture's first artist resident in India and has carried out other residencies at the Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), Art Center Nabi (South Korea) and X-Lab (Japan). He has authored several publications and patents about his work at the intersection of human-computer interaction and creative expression.
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Harshit Agrawal has been working with AI and creative expression for over a decade. He held India’s First Solo Exhibition of AI Art at the Emami Art Gallery in Kolkata in September 2021. He was the only Indian artist among seven international early AI art practitioners featured in the first global exhibition of AI art in a contemporary gallery, held at Nature Morte Gallery in 2018. His work has been nominated three times, among the top three percent of submissions globally, for the prestigious Lumen Prize. He received a significant award for arts in India, the Sanatan Sangeet Puraskar for Digital Art in 2023, alongside other recognised figures in fields such as music, literature and dance from Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti. His work is part of the permanent exhibition at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), Germany, the world's largest computer science museum. He has exhibited work at numerous museums, galleries and art festivals worldwide, including the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, South Korea), Tate Modern, UK, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (India), Alt-AI at School for Poetic Computation (USA), Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino (Italy), Artissima Art Fair (Italy), India Art Fair (India), India Habitat Center (India), Highline Nine Gallery (New York, USA), Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), QUT Art Museum (Australia), Kampuste Dijital Sanat (Turkey), Art-AI Festival, UK, Augmenting Creativity Exhibition (China), Superrare and the Crypto and Digital Art Fair (CADAF), among others. He curated India’s first AI NFT exhibition, Intertwined Intelligences, featuring six global AI artists, on the Terrain.art platform.

He has given several talks about AI and art internationally, including TEDx talks, INK Talks, the DesignUp conference, and at the G20 Cultural Tracker forum. He has conducted workshops about AI and creativity at institutions including the National Institute of Design, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and the Industrial Design Center at IIT Bombay, among others. His work has been extensively covered in international media, including BBC, The New York Times, Artnet and STIR World.