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Living and learning in the United States, Geneva and Bali for the past 7 years, Sneha has recently moved back to her hometown in Kathmandu to paint many murals and to establish Nepal’s first Children’s Art Museum.
Sneha Shrestha, also known as IMAGINE, is a Nepali graffiti artist based until recently, in Boston creating unique art pieces that mesh the Nepali alphabet and the Boston graffiti scene. Imagine has redefined the Nepali alphabet and given it a new identity through graffiti, the alphabet of hip Hop culture.
Being the first to mesh American Graffiti with Nepali Alphabets, she has shown her work in several exhibitions, commissioned works and public walls around the world including Boston, San Francisco, Bali and Istanbul. She often signs her work as ‘Kalpana’, the Nepalese word for ‘imagine’, a perfect moniker for an artist who cannot help but see the world in a different light, tinted by her own imagination.
Her works can be described as thoughtful yet irreverent pieces, marrying the beauty of an elegant script with the droll text she often incorporates into her canvases. When not painting these intricate pieces, Sneha paints loud and bold larger than life walls.
Sneha has been committed to using art as a vehicle for positive social change, leading her to work as a Mentoring Artist in Painting and an Education Coordinator at Artists for Humanity in Boston, helping inner city youth for almost three years. In 2009, Sneha established a children’s library for a struggling public school and publish three bilingual children’s books. The library is sustained till today by the book sales and her t-shirt enterprise, MO:MO: NATION.
She is also an award-winning children’s book writer and illustrator.
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