Tara Aliya Kesavan is an artist from New Delhi, currently based in New York. She works across painting, sculpture and video. She has exhibited work at Transmitter, Locust Projects, UnionDocs and Center for Performance Research. She has taught at the Film and Media departments at Marymount Manhattan College and Hunter College. She helps produce screenings and events at UnionDocs, a center for documentary art in Ridgewood, Queens. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY.