Radha (Kim) Hendi is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in acrylic, mixed media, clay, and block printing. Blending playful aesthetics with contemplative depth, her practice is informed by training in design, drawing, color, and ceramics in Argentina and Canada, as well as meditative and philosophical studies in prana-ontology and breath-based practices with Berdhanya Swami Tierra.

Born in Montreal, raised in Buenos Aires, and living between Ottawa and Argentina, Radha’s work explores transformation, belonging, and layered identity. With Canadian, Argentine, Syrian, Turkish, Danish, and British heritage, her practice reflects a life shaped by migration, cultural crossings, and multiple cosmologies.

Her ongoing project, Holy Cow! – The Series ©, reimagines the Holando-Argentina cow as a symbolic figure moving between sky and earth, clouds and everyday life. Through vibrant color, mandala forms, and moments of quiet humor, the series explores the coexistence of playfulness, spirituality, and contemplation.

Radha has exhibited in Ottawa, Buenos Aires, and Kannur, India. Her work is held in private collections across the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint at the intersection of memory, symbolism, and transformation. Working across acrylic, mixed media, and sculpture, I create visual spaces that move between the personal, the ancestral, and the imagined.

Color is central to my practice. I approach it not only as material, but as emotional and energetic language — capable of carrying vibration, tension, stillness, and release. Through recurring forms such as clouds, mandalas, and the cow, I explore permeability between worlds: earth and sky, humor and reverence, movement and stillness.

Influenced by contemplative practice and philosophical inquiry, I approach painting as a process of discovery rather than explanation. My work invites viewers into moments of pause and reflection, where imagination and presence reconnect inner and collective landscapes.