Vedika Rampal

Vedika Rampal is an Indian-born artist whose post-disciplinary practice intuitively oscillates between image and image forms, using an iterative installation practice to interrogate inherited memories, fictive imaginings, the archive, and colonial histories. Her work often responds to encounters and re-encounters with cultural sites, contemplating upon the duality of trauma and yearning, capture and resistance, loss and agency, rendering the simultaneity of counternarratives to imperial legacies. 

Rampal has exhibited across Australia at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) (2024), UNSW Galleries (2025, 2023), Dominik Mersch Gallery (2023), Firstdraft Gallery (2024), Campbelltown Arts Centre (2023), Tweed Regional Gallery and Brunswick Street Gallery (2022). In 2024, she was the recipient of the Dr. Harold Schenberg Award as part of the Hatched National Graduate Showcase at PICA and was awarded the University Medal at the University of NSW. Rampal was the 2023 recipient of the TWT Excellence Prize in Fine Arts at UNSW Galleries Annual Graduate Show, a highly commended finalist in the 2023 Olive Cotton Award at Tweed Regional Gallery, and a finalist in the 2023 Fisher Ghost Prize at Campbelltown Arts Centre. In addition, she was awarded the Jenny Birt Award, UNSW Art and Design in 2022 and the Kudos Emerging Artist Award in 2021.