KOMAL GOSWAMI

KOMAL GOSWAMI (b. 2001, Gainesville, FL) is a Gujarati Indian American artist that "lives in the hyphen." This notion is a post-diasporic interpretation of the phrase “living on the hyphen,” as Goswami did not immigrate to any one place to be part of two cultures: she was born into them.​ Goswami has also been subject to simultaneously using pen and paper, a computer, and a mouse; as a result, she tangibly “lives in the hyphen," too. Primarily working in video, sound, 3D/CG, and generative art, she explores the evolving landscape of human expression, meaning, and thought in an increasingly digitally assimilated world.

 

Often drawing from both Western and Indian mass and independent media, Goswami's research interests encompass audio, visual, and performance practices to explore cultural mythology through post-internet and post-diasporic art​. These practices often culminate into her long-term series, The Hyphenverse, which serves as a speculative world that distinguishes between the "real" and the "reel" worlds through self-insertion and cultural and emotional abstraction to explore "living in the hyphen." 

 

Komal Goswami earned her BFA in Art + Technology with a minor in Theatre from the University of Florida (UF) in 2023, where she served as President of the Digital Arts Media Network and curated new media exhibitions such as 2G00DHOTD@MN.V4 at 4Most Gallery (Gainesville, FL) and LAiZY ((Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence)) at the Constance and Linton Grinter Gallery (Gainesville, FL). 

 

Goswami's artwork has been exhibited at the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention (Gainesville, FL), Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery (Gainesville, FL), 621 Gallery (Tallahassee, FL), and The Art Department (Renfrewshire, Scotland), among others. Screenings include the 2nd Annual Chroma Art Film Festival at Superblue Miami (Miami, FL), the Computer Art Congress 8 at the National University of La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), the 16th & 18th Annual Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach (Panama City Beach, FL), among others. Her artwork has also been published in Labocine and Hu Magazine.

 

While continuing to create new solo and collaborative artwork, Goswami is writing further about conceptual frameworks discovered within her artistic practice and also serves as the Administrative Assistant for her alma mater, the UF School of Art + Art History.