Alijan Gulzar Shaikh is a Pune based visual artist, who is

currently pursuing his B.Com from Abeda Inamdar Senior

College of Arts, Science and Commerce. He started his

work with chalks at the age of 15, carving portions of the

Taj Mahal and then went on to carve animals, cartoons,

portraits, objects and thereon. His work majorly spans

around chalk portraits he has made of his teachers,

friends and family. He has facilitated chalk carving

workshops for students from Teach For India, and Avsara

Academy in Pune. Alijan’s work has also been featured in

Teach for India and Vice, India. He will be presenting his

artwork for the first time at TIFA Working Studios.