Savia Mahajan initiated her artistic journey in painting and print-making at the L.S. Raheja School of Art in Mumbai. Since 2010, her practice has increasingly focused on themes of resurgence and materiality, evolving through experimentation and developing unique techniques in ceramics. Using clay as a 'carrier material,' she explores the dynamic interplay between material and form, often blending it with various natural and found materials.
These developments and incessant experimentation culminated in Amino Soup—her second solo show at TARQ, 2023, preceded by her first titled Liminal at TARQ, 2017. Mahajan’s recent iteration of ceramic booksand sculptures assert the affinity of her artistic process with exploring materials and objects and their interaction. The artist’s process cultivates a constant dialogue between making and breaking which has become very integral to her practice.
Mahajan’s recent involvements in pedagogical practice include a Hand building with Clay workshop for the students of Karigar Shala Trust, Bhuj, Kachchh, and a comprehensive lecture and workshop Raw Clay to Ceramics: A Historical, Cultural, and Contemporary Context at the School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, 2025. She was selected as an Artist-in-Residence at the Hampi Art Labs in April-June 2024, supported by the JSW Foundation, where she spent time developing work in collaboration with various artisans and local communities. Her work has also been included in Phaidon’s Great Women Sculptors, 2024, a wide-ranging survey of trailblazing women sculptors from art history alongside contemporary practitioners.
Her works have recently been shown at Blue Futures: Reimagining Indigo, curated by Meera Curam, Hampi Art Labs, Karnataka (2025); a three person show transfiguration, -mutation, -formation at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (2025); The Artist As, curated by Vaidehi Gohil and Sonakshi Bhandari, TARQ, Mumbai (2025); India Art Fair, Delhi (2022-2024); Sculpture Park, Art Mumbai (2025); Art Mumbai (2023); solo project Resurgō at Art Basel, Hong Kong, Discoveries Section (2019); Patterns of Intensity at Art Live Gallery in New Delhi curated by Ranjit Hoskote (2021), Osmosis, a group exhibition curated by Shaleen Wadhwana at TARQ (2019); the Second Edition of The Sculpture Park, The Madhvendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, curated by Peter Nagy (2018-19); Mutable: Ceramics and Clay Art in India Since 1947, curated by Dr. Annapurna Garimella and Sindhura D.M. at the Piramal Art Foundation, Mumbai (2019); and the First Indian Ceramics Triennale, Jaipur, (2018) among others.
Mahajan lives and works in Mumbai.