Photo by Yuri Byun
Hello!
Sakshi is an animator, illustrator and educator from India, based in New York City. She graduated with a MFA in Computer Arts from School of Visual Arts. Her visuals are instinctive, sometimes abstract with raw and jittery lines filled with muted, earthy colors. Emerging often in response to poetry in words or in nature, embodying experiences recorded in speech or found in sound. She is often found with a tiny sketchbook in subways or parks.
Currently she teaches at Pratt and School of Visual Arts. Select clients include - The New York Times, The Atlantic, PBS, Autodesk, Samsonite, Doritos, Walmart, Entenmann's and The Backseat Lovers. Her work has been awarded gold by the Society of Illustrators and is recognized by The Centre Pompidou, American Illustration, Tribeca Film Festival, The Museum of Moving Image and traveled around the globe in multiple festivals.
Email: s@saksij.com
Screenings -
SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS (2025)
2026 - Society of Illustrators - Illustrators 68 (New York, NY) - Gold Medal
2026 - 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI) - Jury Award III
2026 - The ASIFA East Animation Festival (New York, NY) - 3rd Prize
2026 - Fest Anča (Žilina, Slovakia)
2026 - Anima Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
2026 - Anifilm (Liberec, Czech Republic)
2026 - 53rd Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH, US)
2026 - Brighton International Animation Festival (Brighton, UK)
2026 - Athens Animfest (Athens, Greece)
2026 - ANNY Animation Nights New York (New York, NY)
2026 - Ciné Court Animé Festival (Roanne, France)
2026 - Happy Valley Animation Festival (Pennsylvania, US)
2026 - Loose Frames (Los Angeles, US)
2026 - Toon Gulch (New York, US)
2025 - private screening, Understory (Queens, NY)
2025 - group show, Technological Perseverance (New York, NY)
2025 - Los Angeles Animation Festival, US - Honorable Mention
INNER WOUND REAL (2022)
2022 - Tribeca Film Festival (Tribeca, NY)
2023 - Museum of The Moving Image (Queens, NY)
2023 - Seattle Black Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
2023 - Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, MS)
2023 - Trans Stellar Film Festival (Detroit, MI)
2023 - First City Film Festival (Leavenworth, KS)
2023 - Mott Haven Film Festival (Bronx, NY)
2023 - Nova Frontier Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
2022 - Reeling Film Festival (Chicago, IL)
2022 - Out on Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
2022 - Walla Walla Movie Crush (Walla Walla, WA)
2022 - Afrikana Film Festival (Richmond, VA)
2022 - Gary International Black Film Festival
2022 - GAZE Film Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
2022 - New Orleans Film Festival (NOLA)
2022 - Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC)
WORLD WITHIN (2019)
2022 - Center Pompidou (Paris, France) - ‘best of’ screening
2021 - International Festival of Animated Film (Stuttgart, Germany)
2021 - Lisbon Film Rendezvous (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021 - Free Range Film Festival (Minnesota ,US)
2021 - School of Visual Arts MFACA (New York, NY) - Alumni screening
2021 - Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI)
2020 - The Alipore Post (India)
2020 - Motion for Pictures (Cary, US)
2020 - Pune Short Film Festival (Pune, India)
2020 - International Children’s Film Festival, (India)
2019 - TASI Viewer’s Choice Award (Mumbai, India)
2019 - DueMila 30 (Milan, Italy)
2019 - Global University Film Award 2020 (Kowloon, Hong Kong)
2019 - ReAnimania Int. Animation Film & Comics Art Festival (Armenia)
2019 - Semana por la soberanía audiovisual (Solano, Argentina)
2019 - Princeton Library Film Festival (Princeton, NJ)
2019 - FilmAid Film Festival (Nairobi, Kenya)
2019 - Alter do Chão Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
