Saubiya Chasmawala (b.1990) received her master’s in visual arts from Vadodara’s Maharaja Sayajirao University, Fine Arts, specialising in painting (2015). She interned under the paper-artist Anupam Chakraborty in hand papermaking at the Nirupama Akademi, Kolkata.
Saubiya had her second solo exhibition, Batin at TARQ in Mumbai (2019). In September 2017, she had her first solo exhibition, Pilgrimage of Historical Oversights, at Clark House initiative in Mumbai. She has been a part of various group shows including The Artist As, curated by Vaidehi Gohil and Sonakshi Bhandari, TARQ, Mumbai (2025); Space Studio Alumni Exhibition (September 2023); Words of Her Seeing, Conflictorium, Museum of Conflict, Ahmedabad (2019); In letter and spirit, TARQ, Mumbai (July 2016); Unwinding, Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara, India (November 2016); Reading Room, a travelling exhibition curated by Amit Jain, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom (October 2015) and New York (September – October 2016) and Emerging Palettes, an exhibition of paintings, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (August 2015). Her work was also exhibited at the Art Mumbai (2023), India Art Fair (2020 & 2018) both represented by TARQ, and CIMA award show (February 2017).
Saubiya was part of the Artists’ Program at The Space Studio, Baroda (February-April 2019). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Blueprint12 Studio, Vadodara (July-December 2015) and at the TIFA working studios in February 2017.
She is a recipient of the prestigious Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship Award (2011-12) and Inlaks Fine Art Award (2016).
She currently lives and works in Vadodara, India.