Niyamat Mehta (b. 1999), labelled by Firenze Yes Please as the ‘Emerging Artist to Invest In 2023’ is a rising artist gaining significant attention within the art world. Mehta was the youngest artist on display at the Palazzo Albrizzi in the 2022 Venice Biennale, amongst the world’s most prestigious art fairs featuring the likes of Anish Kapoor, Simone Leigh and Célestin Faustin.
Showcasing her work at the Kensington Town Hall in London, Artesfera di Valmadrera in Rome, Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva and more, Mehta’s works are interwoven with a profound connection to her Indian heritage. This led famed sculptor Greenville Davey to hail her as a potential artistic power that could be a generational bridge of artistic cultures. In an interview with Firenze Yes Please, she cited the ‘ever contemporary’ form of Beethoven’s final String Quartets as inspirations for her work, which despite being written almost two centuries ago, baffle the most avante garde artists to this date.
While many of her most celebrated works are commentaries on the prevailing zeitgeist, Mehta received her training in the advanced pedagogical method of Robert Bodem called ‘drawing in space’. At sixteen, she was selected as a protégé to Master Sculptor Jason Arkles in Florence, Italy. Expanding her technique under Arkles, she made portraits from life using the sight size method of the Old Masters and went on to study as the youngest student at the prestigious Florence Academy of Art.
Today, Mehta regularly lectures and conducts masterclasses at institutions including the London Fine Art Studio, Firenze Geko Art Studio and has her own private studio ‘Atelier Della Firenze’ in New Delhi.