Riya Joshi

From Dehradun, Riya Joshi makes visual art that moves fluidly between the emotional and the mythic. A specialist in graphite and acrylic, she describes her mission simply — “turning memories into timeless art” — and her strengths in portraiture and hyper-realism give that promise its weight. There are no cryptic titles here; she names her feelings plainly.

Her KalaCUBE collection reads like an emotional vocabulary rendered in pencil and pigment: Bhaya (Fear), Flaws, Belle – The Beauty, Samatva – Equanimity and Aadya – Aadi Shakti, the last drawing on the strength of Indian goddess iconography. As her Musée Living feature observes, she returns to the same subjects more than once, so that every graphite artwork carries the tremor of a real hand and the pause of real thought — the hours of someone learning to say “fear” or “equanimity” in paint.

KalaCUBE, born from Musée Living and the Musée Art Café in Dehradun, was made to give artists like Riya a home — work valued for the human being behind every mark. Her portraits and hand-drawn studies belong exactly there.

Explore Riya Joshi’s work at kalacube.com/artist/riyajoshi, and read her feature on Musée Living.