Pallavi Devkota is an Edinburgh-based artist, working conceptually across print and digital mediums. Dialectics between the outside and inside, sovereignty and heterogeneity, are themes that drive her practice.

Technology and the mediation of micro and macro border spaces have been a particular zone of focus for the artist. This interest is rooted in the formative experience of immigrating from Nepal to England, which exposed her to the reality of borders not as static entities but as a series of tangled bureaucratic, cultural, and linguistic mechanisms that one undergoes and negotiates: a never-ending process of becoming and unbecoming.

Pallavi obtained her undergraduate degree in Fine Art Printmaking from The University of Brighton in 2022. She was an Artist in Residence at Leith School of Art from 2022 to 2023 and held the position of Exhibitions Coordinator at the school from February 2023 to February 2024 there. In 2020, she completed the Gildengate House Residency at Outpost Studios, where she held her first solo show in 2021. Her works have been featured in group exhibitions across the UK.

In August 2023, she was awarded The Barns-Graham Travel award to conduct a research trip centred on the emergence of disciplinary, carceral mechanisms in the Early Modern Period in Northern Italy, visiting Lazaretto Vecchio in Venice and Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, making connections to how these institutional forms continue to be expressed within regional and international politics.

She currently serves as an Artist in Residence at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, where she enjoys working with its rich and varied archives, which document interesting moments in the city’s history.