Mrinalini Aggarwal

Mrinalini Aggarwal is a multidisciplinary Indian artist and academic, currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), University of Cincinnati. She also holds a Visiting Artist position at the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Program at Pratt Institute, where she contributes to speculative spatial practices.

Her research focuses on decolonizing public space through intersections of architecture, sculpture, and landscape. Her projects emphasize experiential engagement, exploring conceptions of reality, pleasure, and nature within Eastern practices while critiquing modernist urban development.

• Recipient of AICAD Fellowship (2018-20)
• Headlands Center for the Arts Residency (2017)
• Featured in Creative Capital Award finalists (2021)

She founded Streetlight, a collaborative spatial research laboratory dedicated to reimagining public infrastructure. Grants include the Pratt Seed Grant (2020) and ongoing DAAP Research Grant.