Jyoti Shrestha

Jyoti Shrestha is a visual artist and photographer whose work moves between documentary and experimental practices. She confronts the tensions between culture and the individual, exploring how inherited systems shape bodies, desire, and identity. Working with an attentive, investigative lens, she traces the subtle violences and silences embedded in everyday life—from rituals that define land and water, to legacies of language, beauty, and intimacy.

Her work reveals what is often suppressed, erased, or overlooked, opening space for reflection, reclamation, and new possibilities. It engages questions that resonate globally: how traditions and social norms shape power, gender, and belonging, and how communities negotiate memory, loss, and cultural inheritance.

Shrestha’s work has been shown in Nepal and internationally, including Finland, India, Bangladesh, Germany, and Hong Kong. She has been recognized by Prix Virginia (Jury’s Choice, 2022), UNICEF, CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action, India), the British Academy, Voices of Women, and the U.S. Embassy. She was named among the Top 17 Women Photographers from Nepal and serves as the Nepal Ambassador for the 24 Hour Project (2023–25).