Srijana Giri — Artist

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The Bhutanese Dream

Satirical card game, illustrated and self-published. 2–6 players.

Nu. 550

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Dzongkha Colouring Book

Illustrated colouring book teaching the Dzongkha script. 1,000+ copies sold.

Nu. 180

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Dzongkha Letters Chart

Illustrated alphabet chart pairing each letter with a word and character.

Nu. 250

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Liberation, installation by Srijana Giri

Touch the frame to activate — the shoes chime like the bells once worn by cargo ponies

Installation · 2026 · 81.28 × 152.4 cm

Liberation

106 authentic horseshoes, wood, LED light, suspension mechanism — collected from the historic trade routes of Talung, Haa

106 authentic horseshoes collected from the historic trade routes of Talung, Haa, suspended and backlit. Visitors can gently move the frame, activating a metallic chime that echoes the bells once worn by cargo ponies on the route to China — each shoe a memorial to a horse left as a stray once its labour was no longer needed.

Painting · 2026 · 45.72 × 60.96 cm

The Divine Hayagriva

Mixed media on canvas — hair physically sewn into the canvas, braided with pearls and lacha dhori

A feminine reimagining of the deity Hayagriva, her hair physically sewn into the canvas and braided with pearls and lacha dhori. Holding a vajra, she represents the liberating power of education — a right too many girls are denied through household duty, early marriage, or missing paperwork.

Painting · 2024 · 4 ft

Aimey

Acrylic mixed with natural dye pigment on canvas

"Aimey" means woman in Nepali. Painted in a dress cut closer to Bhutanese-Tibetan style — a nod to Bhutan's one-nation-one-people dress policy — she has kept her jewellery. Behind her, hand-painted Nepali text names her only by role: chori, aama, chyma, phuphu, kaki, bari — the many names a woman collects instead of her own.

Print & Published Work

Illustration in print, 2022–2026

The Bhutanese Dream

A satirical card game inspired by The Singaporean Dream, illustrated and self-published, launched in early 2026.

Dzongkha Colouring Book

An illustrated colouring book teaching the Dzongkha script, sold in Bhutan and internationally — 1,000+ copies offline, 500+ on Amazon. BICMA Reg. No. 100000940.

Dzongkha Letters Chart

A standalone illustrated alphabet chart pairing each Dzongkha letter with a word and character.

Sketchbook

Selected pages, process shown sketch to final — watercolour, ink, and pencil, 2017–2024

Grandmother — pencil sketch, watercolour wash, final illustration, with the real mat

Kalbelia Dancer — reference photograph, watercolour in progress, final painting

Robo Duck — pencil concept, ink & colour wash, final piece

Apple & Beard — pencil sketch, watercolour wash, final character

Bobo & Lulu, Pirate Cats — sketch, ink details, final watercolour

Educated Potato — pencil concept, watercolour painting, final with details

Positive Colours for Positive Mood — sketch to final

Other pages — Art vs Artist, Character Design: Rani

About

Srijana Giri is a watercolour, acrylic, and mixed-media artist based in Thimphu, Bhutan. Her work moves between painting, illustration, and installation, often drawn from the people and traditions around her — portraits, Himalayan folklore, and family memory alongside satirical illustration and print. Alongside her studio practice, she works in operations and social innovation, and is the creator of The Bhutanese Dream card game and the Dzongkha Colouring Book.

Artist Statement (draft — to be reviewed)

Art is how I stay in conversation with myself. I am a Nepali woman raised in Bhutan, and most days that still feels like holding two threads that were never quite spun into one — so I paint, sketch, and build things by hand as a way of sitting with that instead of resolving it too quickly. It is less a career than a daily practice, closer to meditation than performance: a sketchbook page before the workday starts, a canvas returned to over months, a language relearned one hand-painted letter at a time. I don't think of my work as arriving at answers. I think of it as staying curious about my own identity, my own inheritance, my own community, for as long as it takes — learning and growing a little with every piece, the same way a person does.

Artist CV

Exhibitions, competitions & publications

Exhibitions & Participations

2026 — Her Expression, VAST Bhutan, Thimphu [confirm edition & date]

2026 — Liberation, installation [confirm venue & date]

2018 — "POWER", Modern Art Competition, VAST Bhutan × Royal Textile Academy, Thimphu

2017 — Patterns of Happiness, VAST Bhutan × Royal Textile Academy, Thimphu

2017 — Her Expression IV, VAST Bhutan, Thimphu

Competitions

2025 — Comic Strip Competition, Anti-Corruption Commission of Bhutan

2017 — BNEW Media Advocacy Material Development Competition — Mascot category

Publications

2026 — The Bhutanese Dream, card game, self-published

2025 — Dzongkha Letters Chart, self-published

2022 — Dzongkha Colouring Book, self-published (BICMA Reg. No. 100000940)

All exhibitions and participations to date have been group shows — Srijana has not yet held a solo exhibition. Two entries above are marked for confirmation: the exact date/edition of Her Expression 2026, and the venue/date for the Liberation installation. Her Expression 2026 certificate is not yet in the certificates folder — worth requesting a copy for the record.