Harmeet Rattan b. 1987

Harmeet Singh Rattan is a Delhi NCR–based artist whose practice spans sculpture, painting, installation, and site-specific interventions. Rooted in the climate-stressed agrarian landscapes of Punjab and shaped by the expanding urban ecology of North India, his work engages with ecological precarity, migration, and the erosion of vernacular knowledge systems. Working with materials such as wood, stone, earth, natural pigments, and text, Rattan approaches matter as both medium and archive—foregrounding processes of transformation, decay, and inscription.

 

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from Government College of Art, Chandigarh, and a Master’s degree from the College of Art, New Delhi. His solo exhibition Permanent Visibility (2022), presented by Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, examined questions of presence, trace, and visibility within material practice. His work has been included in exhibitions at Bikaner House, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Art Heritage Gallery, and Tao Art Gallery, among others.

 

A recipient of the Khoj Peers Share (2021) and the Khoj Support Network Grant (2020), Rattan’s practice emphasizes slow, process-led methodologies that resist industrial temporality, positioning making as an act of care, resistance, and ecological memory.