About
Through repetition and time, my practice uses three-dimensional quilling as a way of giving form to inner experience, allowing psychological structures, tensions and shifts to emerge gradually through making.
Vaishali Rastogi Sahni is a contemporary visual artist and paper sculptor based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. Working primarily with paper, she uses three-dimensional quilling, layering and sculptural construction to build dense, tactile forms.
Her work investigates the psychological forces and emotional experiences that shape our inner lives and our sense of who we are. She is interested in the habits, fears, desires, attachments and conditioning that develop through living, and in how these structures influence the ways we see, respond and act.
Drawing from Indian temple architecture and iconography, as well as animal and organic forms, Sahni’s visual language is characterised by layered construction, rhythmic repetition, paper beads and ornamental detail. These elements are reinterpreted through an evolving sculptural language in which accumulation, structure, containment and transformation become both material and psychological.
Her work has been exhibited with established galleries in India and is held in private and institutional collections in India and abroad. She is the author of 3D Quilling, published by Stackpole Books (USA), and her practice has been featured in publications including The Hindu and The New Indian Express.
She has been a member of the Paper Artist Collective (PAC) since 2026.
Selected Exhibitions
2026- The Cast and the Carved, Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India
2026- Choosing to Rest, Artflute Art Gallery, Bangalore, India
2025 - Living Temple, Ekchitra, Hyderabad, India
2025 - India Design ID, Apparao Galleries, New Delhi, India
2025 - Hindu Lit For Life, Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India
2024 - Vast Mediations, Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India
2024 - On Paper Of Paper- Curated by Ankon Mitra, Apparao Galleries, India Design ID, New Delhi, India
2023 - Winterfaire, Children’s Museum, Indianapolis, USA
2016 - Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society, Washington D.C., USA
Publications & Authorship
2018 - Vaishali Rastogi Sahni, 3D Quilling, Stackpole Books, USA
Selected Media Coverage
The Hindu, The New Indian Express, ABP News, Sansad TV, Amar Ujala
Workshops
2024 - Workshop, India Design ID, New Delhi, India
2021 - Workshop, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Awards & Recognition
2020 - Invited Expert Judge, Guinness World Record attempt (Quilling), Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi, India
Affiliations
2026 - Paper Artist Collective
Collections
Public Collections
2023 - Children’s Museum, Indianapolis, USA
2022 - Museum / Art Gallery, Meerut, India (Four works)
Private Collections
Private collections in India and Abroad