Samyukta Bhandari

Samyukta Bhandari is a Kathmandu-based multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice explores the intersections of art, ecology, and human experience. Since 2018, she has been creating works that provoke dialogue around environmental themes, often examining the delicate balance between freedom and boundaries. Through painting, installation, and design-based approaches, she investigates how lived spaces shape and are shaped by natural and human systems. Her current research focuses on house sparrows in Kathmandu—their nesting, breeding, and territorial habits—and how these birds have become deeply co-dependent on human lives. By situating sparrows as a lens to view urban ecology, Bhandari’s work highlights the fragile entanglements between species, raising questions of coexistence, adaptation, and shared survival in contemporary city life.