Diptej Vernekar is an artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice explores the ambiguity of social phenomena, human error, and technological evolution. A graduate of the University of Hyderabad (MFA), he is co-founder of Goa Open Arts and Goa Artists Collective. His work—spanning charcoal, video, sculpture, and alternative technologies—navigates memory, cultural shifts, and public engagement. 
His fascination with technological mechanisms lies in their ability to reshape how people connect with personal and collective memory. Vernekar’s art has been showcased at India Art Fair, Art Mumbai, Serendipity Arts Festival, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Collateral), among others. He is a recipient of the Fundação Oriente Visual Arts Award (2023), Serendipity Public Art Grant (2022), Forbes India30Under30 (2019), and the Inlaks Fine Art Award (2017). He has also participated in residencies like Khoj Peers Residency, What About Art?, and Piramal Art Residency. His work invites viewers to engage with shifting landscapes of memory, function, and identity.
Sahil Naik’s practice examines the modalities of evidence and truth through architecture, minor and casual histories, mythology, forensics and the internet. His current project Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism studies the violence of the nation-building project with a focus on South Asia and the Non-aligned world.
 
His works were included in the 17th Lyon Biennale curated by Alexia Fabre, the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by Shubigi Rao and the 5th Art Encounters Biennale in Timișoara curated by Adrian Notz. He has exhibited with In ruins at the Matera National Museums, Italy; TBA 21 on st_age; and at Foundation Elpis, Milan. He also exhibited at How to Reappear curated by Kayfa ta at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Vitrine in Basel; Delfina Foundation and Asia House in London; Bridget Donahue, New York; Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; MMAG Foundation, Amman; Khoj International Artists’ Association; the Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan; and with HH Art Spaces and Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa. 
 
His solo presentations include Spectres, Specimens and Ships in Doubt (2023); All Is Water And To Water We Must Return (2021); Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism (2020) and Ground Zero (2017) at Experimenter, Kolkata.