Akanksha Agarwal

Akanksha is an artist based in New York City. Working primarily in oil, she creates figurative paintings that are grounded in mood and emotional texture.

 

While oil is her main medium, her practice also spans watercolor, mixed media, and digital painting. Her style draws from modern figurative painting, shaped by a deep admiration for 19th-century European and Indian art.

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For Akanksha, painting is less about executing an idea and more about following an instinct. She paints to process, to reflect, and sometimes simply because the image insists on being made. Recurring themes include romance, solitude, subtle humor and emerge not by design but through repetition, forming a visual language that is deeply personal and open-ended.