Swapna Das: Bridging Two Worlds (September 19, 2025)
Swapna Das is a visual artist based in San Jose, California, working in drawing and ceramics. Originally from New Delhi, India, she creates abstract works that explore spirituality, resilience, and self-reflection, often influenced by Buddhist philosophies of mindfulness and impermanence. Working primarily with clay, Das embraces the tactile and unpredictable nature of the medium, transforming raw material into abstract sculptural forms that channel emotion, vulnerability, and inner strength.
Swapna Das- “Becoming” Solo Exhibition (August )
Centered on small-scale, hand-crafted ceramic works, “Becoming” demonstrates how Das brings explorations of shape, texture, and movement to her own spiritual practice, which is represented here as an ever-changing journey involving the ongoing interplay of shifting interior and exterior worlds.
‘Ten Worlds' explores complex Buddhist concepts on a simple canvas (March 28, 2016)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and, at ASU, the beholders come from all around the world. Take Swapna Das, a painting and drawing masters student who has explored her passion for the arts and her Buddhist practice in her thesis “Ten Worlds.”