Trishla Jain (b. 1985) is a self-taught artist who grew up in New Delhi and is now based in Palo Alto, California. She describes herself as an abstract artist and meditation practitioner. She studied English Literature at Stanford University (2007), followed by the Teaching of English at Columbia University, New York (2008). In 2009, Jain returned to India and to her childhood foray with the canvas. She had two monographic exhibitions and several group shows between 2010 and 2014. Her early works, autobiographical in nature, were mixed-media assemblages of text, images and found objects. Over time the images dissolved into a choreographed interplay of lines, dots and dashes, moving her work into metaphorical realms of breathing, meditation and mindfulness.

In 2015, Jain returned to live in Palo Alto with her family. Here, her daily meditation practice began to integrate with her painting. Moving beyond the autobiographical and into the space of a larger collective consciousness of the ‘present’, Jain's recent work harnesses breath-awareness and ‘Samādhi’, the human mind’s innate capacity for deep, undisturbed peace and focus. She describes her paintings as devotional practice and pure meditation on canvas.

The artist will have her first solo exhibition at Akara Contemporary in Mumbai in August 2023 where she will exhibit her most recent series ‘Yantra’ and ‘Tantra’, which she has been creating since 2020. Both series converse with each other yet take on individual identities of control and letting go, of pattern and abstraction, of awareness and transcendence. Jain akins these works to the principle of yin and yang, where ‘Yantra’ and ‘Tantra’ “behave as a pair of equal opposites - the inhale and exhale - that balance and complement each other.”