Kanan Koteshwar, born in 1985 in Dabhoi, India, holds a diverse academic background that informs her artistic practice. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Home Science from the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) of Baroda in 2005, followed by a degree in Early Childhood and Education from the same institution in 2007. In 2010, she completed her Master’s in Museology from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, and also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Guidance and Counselling. Her varied academic training profoundly shapes her artistic vision, where she finds poetic irony in the act of preserving what has seemingly lost its significance. She likens her work to finding life in the dead—reforming the broken and forgotten.

In 2018, Kanan made her solo debut with the exhibition “Pracyuta” at Knots Experimental Art Space in Baroda. She has since participated in several group exhibitions, including “From Where All That Sweat” at Amuseum Art Gallery of Modern Art, Thiruvananthapuram, in 2022, and “Interlude 2” by Knots Collective at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, in 2019.

Kanan Koteshwar lives and works in Baroda, India.