Aparajita Jain Mahajan was born in 1980 in New York, USA. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Film, Animation, and Video. In 2007, she further refined her visual language at the Art Students League of New York. Alongside her art practice, Aparajita has been actively involved in social projects. She created animations for the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum in New Delhi and assisted filmmaker Saeed Mirza in his 2004 tribute to Gandhi. While living in Auroville, a universal township, she taught art at an outreach village school and created a documentary about this unique institution.

Since 2009, Aparajita has participated in numerous exhibitions, including “Miniatures Conjure Delights” in 2024 at Garrett Museum of Art, Indiana, USA, “Entwined” at Apparao Galleries, Chennai (2024), “Unveiled Horizons” at Vida Heydari Contemporary, Pune (2023), “Between Interruptions” at Angelica Kauffman Micro Gallery (2023), the Architectural Digest Fair 2023 with VHC, and the Terrain Biennial 2023 with Angelica Kauffman Gallery in Chicago, USA. She was also part of the digital exhibition “Attachment; Abbreviated”, organized under the “Taking Up Space” initiative by the Thrive Together Network (2022), among many others.

Aparajita Jain Mahajan lives and works in Pune, India.