Arieno Kera belongs to the Naga indigenous community and is currently based in Nagaland. She is interested in process-based art practice and engage with painting, drawing, installation and video, as an archive of local tradition and cultural memory. Exploring a material-based practice she engages critically with tools of representation derived from various traditional elements from her own indigenous background from Nagaland and interprets them into contemporary idioms of image-making while conversing with practice of drawing as an interface of representation, process and mark-making. She translates personal experience into a performative signifier of memory and transformation. She finished her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Shantiniketan.