Vrishali Purandare (1990, India) is an artist and educator. She is interested in developing – interstitial and experimental – enabling processes that stem from the relationships between community based art making, ecology (social hydrogeology) and critical pedagogy.

She has worked with universities, community centers, government and private organizations to explore possibilities of artistic research and to localize art education and has published papers on the subjects.

She studied visual art from MSU-Baroda, SNU-Dadri, ZhDK-Zurich and has studied Governance and management of groundwater at ACWADAM, Pune (2019). She is currently working and studying at the PhD in Practice Programme – Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.