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Priyanka Dey, Untitled (field/ float), 2026.Photographed by Max Yawney. Image description: A small, pale pastel image of a blurry interior scene in pink, lavender, and blue, set on a white mount hung on a white wall.
Priyanka Dey, Radial Circle, 2024. Image description: A soft pastel composition of overlapping circles and curved shapes in pink, green, and brown, with some circles cut out of the white paper.
Exposure, 2024, Image size 5 x 6 inches, Paper size 11 x 13 inches, Cut paper and colored pencils on paper. Image description: A small pastel rectangle of fractured lavender, pink, and yellow shapes sits low on the left of a large sheet of white paper.
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Priyanka Dey’s creative process revolves around experimenting with and leveraging obscurity. She aims to create work that plays with optics of perception. The work functions as portals and screens, in dissolving states that are not readily accessible. Dey’s process balances a calculative yet intuitive paradigm which resists definitive categorization. Throughout the process, she tries to respond to the paper spontaneously - a seemingly perpetual dialogue- instead of having a concrete and all-encompassing plan for the drawing. Her process employs a deep emphasis on the craft of creating the work, yet in terms of approach it is loose, embracing a component of chance.

Priyanka Dey lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and holds a BFA from Pratt Institute. Originally, Dey is from Mumbai, India. Dey aims to create work that plays with optics of perception by experimenting with and leveraging obscurity. Her process balances a calculative yet intuitive paradigm which resists definitive categorization.

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