Ankita Shinde is a multidisciplinary artist, TEDx speaker, and creative workshop facilitator with over 14 yrs of experience as a visual designer.

"I work across canvas, skin, paper, pixels, clay, and stories. My creative practice is fluid, intuitive, and deeply interconnected — I don’t see these as separate lanes — they’re in conversation with one another. Each practice informs, softens, and strengthens the others. Some days I paint. Some days I poke tattoos. Some days I make zines, design brands, lead workshops, or simply play with slime and keyboards. It’s all part of the same body of work — it stretches across mediums but always returns to the same purpose: to explore what it means to feel, connect, and be alive.

My 3-year-old self — curious, imaginative, and deeply feeling — continues to guide me. She reminds me that creativity flows most freely when we meet ourselves with honesty."
 

Since the start of her career in 2012, Ankita has worked with brands like Adidas, Lenovo, Redbull, ASUS, Facebook, ICICI, Vogue and several other small businesses and personal brands as well. Her work has been featured in various online and print publications like Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, Creative Gaga magazine to name a few.

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Ankita holds a BFA from Rachana Sansad College of Applied Arts, Mumbai. She has largely worked independently in the past decade, with two long term positions as a visual design lead with Even Healthcare and Parallel HQ between 2021-2022. She also briefly ran her own design studio called 'Another Day Another Colour (ADAC)' leading a team of upto 6 designers.

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She has conducted online workshops on supporting people with their creative self expression for over 800 people (between the age group 18-45) across the globe so far. Ankita absolutely loves pet projects (side/personal projects) and is a staunch advocate of it. She has started several personal and community level pet projects. She has also given a TEDx talk in Bangalore, India in 2018, on the subject of pet projects, its benefits and applications especially in public schools in India.​​

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Ankita’s personal experiences, including her long-term journey with therapy and neurodivergence, have deeply influenced her relationship with art. She sees her practice as a constantly evolving ecosystem — a mosaic of play, care, introspection, and expression.

She is also the founder of FART—Feel Art Reflect Together—a small collective that merges art, mental health, and self-expression. Through FART, she creates spaces for individuals to explore their feelings and connect with their inner selves through creative practices.

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Her recent works explore themes of inner landscapes (IFS), human connection, and the beauty of spontaneity, often blending abstract and figurative styles. Anchored in her love for experimentation and storytelling, Ankita’s artistic process is deeply rooted in the way that art helps her make sense of the world, even as the act of creating shapes her in return. Somewhere between these two forces—sense-making and self-making—she finds magic, she finds herself.