Ashwini Bhat: Trail Notes

An Exhibition by Ashwini Bhat
May 15 - August 29 2027

Ashwini Bhat’s solo exhibition, Trail Notes, at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art continues her ongoing exploration of place and self. Since relocating from Southern India to the Bay Area during the 2017 Tubbs Fire, Bhat has rooted her practice in the rhythms of the land and the lingering aftershocks of catastrophe. She reflects on how the resilience of the landscape especially the Redwoods—inspired her to make the North Bay her home after a largely nomadic life since the age of sixteen.

This exhibition builds on Bhat’s ongoing field-based project Assembling California, a deeply personal and ecological mapping of presence, transformation, and ritual. While Trail Notes emerges in part from her recent survey exhibition, Ashwini Bhat: Reverberating Self, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center—featuring works not previously shown in the Bay Area—it also introduces a new body of work created specifically for the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.