ABOUT

Tanaya is an illustrator, motion designer, researcher and educator.

She studied animation at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, and has received her MA in Visual Communication at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) UK.

Professionally she has worked with notable publishing houses and collaborated with organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund to create mix-media animated films, attended the SVA Illustration Residency in New York and taught visual art and design. She has also illustrated tactile graphics and children's books for inclusive education and her work has been exhibited in New York, Singapore and France.

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WWF-India, Tulika Publishers, HarperCollins India, Pratham Books, Tata Interactive Systems, Scholastic India, Karadi Tales, Covent Gardener Magazine London and more...

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Speaker at AFCC Singapore

2019

Talk and interactive workshop

Personal Journeys, Stranger Worlds, New Perspectives: Illustrating Children’s Non-fiction in India

Artist Book Exhibition

2017

Exhibited my book 'Reflections of the Forest' at All Inked Up: artist books symposium, exhibition and print fair curated by Rob McDonald at UCA Herbert Read Gallery, UK.

Book Illustrators Gallery Exhibition, AFCC Singapore

2017

Illustrations from my book 'Kasturba' published by Tulika Publishers (India) exhibited at the Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC), Singapore

National Tactile Book Prize

2013

Tactile graphic book 'Bo, Messy and Shampoo' created for visually impaired children won the National Tactile Book Competition India. The book was selected in the judge's best category of 'Typhlo & Tactus' France 2013.