Professional Resume

CURRENT:

M R I N A L I N I AG G A R WA L

Graduate Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow, Emerging Arts Professionals Network Art & Design Consultant, Facebook, Tom Loughlin

Spatial artist with 8+ years experience in leading

846 Shotwell St #5, San Francisco CA 94110

multi-disciplinary environmental design projects

+1 267 638 8811

including residential interiors, immersive exhibitions,

mrinalini.aggarwal@gmail.com

& research-led architecture.

www.streetlight.space

EDUC ATION: MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

2015 - 2017

GDPD, Spatial Design, National Institute of Design, India

2003 - 2010

Student Exchange, Spatial Design, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqué, Paris, France

2007 - 2008

SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALL ATIONS:

Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

OCT 2017

50’x12’ installation Willing Final Exhibition, San Francisco Mint, CA

MAY 2017

50’x20’ site specific installation Distance The Original Disruptors, SFAI Fundraising Gala, San Francisco, CA

APR 2017

Commissioned by SFAI & Trustee Tom Loughlin, collaboration with Lucien Jeanpretre Roommates, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

NOV 2016

12’x16’ installation Distance Binary Unbinding, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SEPT 2016

16’x12’ floor installation Things in Colour, Shaking Night&Day, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

MAR 2016

30’x20’x30’ installation Willing AWARDS

Emerging Arts Professionals Fellow, SF - EAP is a network focused on empowerment,

ONGOING

leadership and growth of San Francisco / Bay Area next gen arts & culture workers.

Graduate Fellowship Residency Award, Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausalito -

ONGOING

Awarded yearlong studio space at the HCA. Exhibition scheduled for Jul 2018. $7000 artist award for the SFAI Fundraising Gala.

2017

$80,000 Full-Ride Merit Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute.

2015 - 2017

$8,000 Travel Scholarship awarded by Abaxial Architects for travel across the Indian

2012 - 2013

subcontinent to work with traditional architecture & art with local communities $12,000 Merit Scholarship, Embassy of France for study of Spatial Design at Ecole Boulle, Paris

2008

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EXPERIENCE:

Art Consultant - Tom Loughlin - Minnesota Street Project, CA

JULY 2017 - ONGOING

Mid-career artist building award-winning public art project at Treasure Island.

Exhibition Consultant - Facebook - Palo Alto, CA

JULY 2017

Independently contracted to design the Facebook artist-in-residence exhibition at The Lab, SF. Exhibitions Assistant - Walter & McBean Galleries - San Francisco, CA

DEC 2016 - MAY 2017

Designed & built gallery exhibitions in collaboration with exhibiting artists and WBG curator.

Assessed & implemented programming that actively supported arts students & the Bay Area arts community.

Strategized & managed 20+ events, including the SF Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon attended by 50+ editors.

Co-Director - Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco, CA

JAN - DEC 2016

Curated over 30 exhibitions for 200+ artists. Juried & mentored the most promising exhibiting artists..

Designed and led a new platform, Diego CoLabs to foster collaborative art-making within the community.

Raised funding, connected artists with local industry, & helped artists pursue professional work.

Head of Design - Abaxial Architects - New Delhi, India

MAY 2008 - AUG 2015

Directed teams of 20+ architects & designers on over 50 architecture, exhibitions & communications projects.

Managed accounts of up to $ 60 mil & projects of over 27,00,000 sq ft in scale.

Advised clients across diverse industries including education, development, IT & manufacturing.

Streamlined firms strategic direction & instituted core values across projects.

Established firm’s design research department & created research-informed project briefs, client publications & design solutions.

Trained all new employees on design thinking & processes.

Mentored over 15 interns & young architects through ongoing design workshops & charettes.

Select Exhibitions:

Led the design & building of award-winning exhibition Akshara, Crafting Indian Scripts, for NGO Dastkari Haat Samiti that traveled between Delhi, Mumbai & Cairo. The exhibition was selected to be installed at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in September 2013.

Created a design festival, India at 100, at the Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi’s premier art space, for the Future Institute in 2011. Designed an exhibition on contemporary Indian architecture & design. Organized a 3-day speaker session with field experts, & conducted public design thinking workshops. The event culminated in public participation towards a Charter for Indian Urbanity through the 3 imperatives of ecology, identity & equity.

Select Environments:

Designed the 8,000 sf ft atrium for World Trade Centre, Manesar.

Partnered with consultant architects & planners on master-plan design for World Trade Centre, Noida.

Strategised & designed the viewing gallery & working studios for India’s largest architectural design competition in the private sector for real-estate client, Viridian. 13 internationally acclaimed architects & planners were invited to select the best design proposal for the World Trade Centre, Greater Noida.

Designed an orphanage with live-study environments for the Salaam Baalak Trust as a participatory project with resident children.

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Select Design Research:

Designed & implemented a qualitative survey to identify public perception towards architecture amongst 100 Delhiites that resulted in a short film titled Architecture, Practice & Academia, previewed at the Architects Retreat, Ahmedabad.

Led a study of the River Yamuna in Delhi and its stakeholders that resulted in a publication Membrana, Revisiting the Intersections between Nature and Urbanity to inform best practices for on-ground commercial projects being undertaken within the floodplain.

Conducted a research-based inquiry into design education & institutions titled Traces in the Art of Design.

Created a model for participatory exhibition spaces across Delhi to engage with notions of citizenship & nationhood titled India, Inside Outside.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Lead Facilitator - Public Education Workshops - New Delhi, India

JULY 2016

Designed an intensive public education workshop on creative place-making titled Audible Landscapes of Mehrauli concluding in a community led public installation at the historic district of Mehrauli in Delhi in collaboration with Greha & 3x3 Design, NY. Teaching Assistance - San Francisco Art Institute, CA

2015-2016

Selected to assist -Installation Art for artist Mads Lynnerup, Introduction to Sculpture for artist Chris Bell.

Visiting Faculty - National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

APRIL 2015

NID is the top ranked design school in India and in the top 20 globally.

Mentored and guided over 15 thesis projects for Exhibition Design students. Presented seminars on the intersections of architecture, art and design and a public lecture on spatial and experiential design titled Inside.

TECHNOLOGIC AL COMPETENCIES:

Profficient in

Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere

Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Autocad, Rhino, Keyshot, SketchUp

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