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: Beyond the lens, she has expanded into digital painting and has even launched her own skincare and beauty brand, Skkinix , in late 2025. The Performing Artist: Television and Music
Thematically, her latest series focuses on the "unseen portrait." One standout piece, Left on Read (3:14 AM) , depicts no face. Instead, it shows a pair of hands hovering over a glowing smartphone, the screen reflecting a cascade of green text bubbles that stop abruptly. The hands are rendered in exquisite, painful detail: the tremor of anxiety, the tension in the knuckles, the smudged nail polish. The background is a deep, resonant black punctuated by the pale blue light of the device. It is a portrait not of a person, but of a feeling—the specific, hollow ache of digital abandonment. riya sharma, artist, latest
#RiyaSharma #ContemporaryArt #ArtFeature #FragmentsOfTomorrow #EmergingArtist : Beyond the lens, she has expanded into
"The latest work is about what we leave behind," Sharma explains. "I wanted the canvas to look like it was breathing. I wanted the viewer to see the history of the brushstrokes underneath the final layer, just like we see the history of a person when we look into their eyes." The hands are rendered in exquisite, painful detail:
What makes Sharma’s latest chapter so compelling is her refusal to take an easy stance. She is neither a Luddite decrying technology nor a cheerleader for the metaverse. Instead, she acts as an archaeologist of the present, sifting through the debris of our daily notifications, likes, and swipes to find the genuine human emotion buried beneath. In her artist statement for the series, she writes, “The screen is not a wall; it is a membrane. My work is about what passes through it—and what gets stuck.”
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