Areesha Khuwaja is a visual ethnographer, artist, and curator whose practice weaves together oral histories, folklore, ecological memory, and sensory storytelling. Working across illustration, film, animation, sound, and interactive media, she explores how land holds memory — especially in endangered or overlooked cultural landscapes.
 

Her work is grounded in intersectional feminist inquiry, often centering the voices, silences, and embodied knowledge of women, communities, and non-human life forms. She approaches storytelling through animism as both resistance and repair.
 

As the lead artist and curator of Echoes of Karoonjhar, Areesha has spent the past year documenting the sacred, political, and poetic lifeworlds of the Karoonjhar Mountains. Moving between archival research and presence in the field, she builds narratives that are slow, rooted, and reverent.
 

She is the founder of Pakkhee Studios and a co-organizer at Lahooti, where she leads design and archival projects at the intersection of folklore, community, and contemporary art. She holds an M.A. in Creative Multimedia.