Studio #332 Lake Erie Screw Factory 

13000 Athens Ave. Lakewood, OH44107

Contact Achala at achalaw@gmail.com

Achala Wali lives and works in Northeast Ohio. She is a visual artist, whose works on paper have been shown regionally, in venues as varied as Zygote Press and the Butler Museum in Youngstown, OH. Born in India, raised in the United States, Achala’s artistic practice is shaped by a wide range of cultural influences from Indian miniatures to global music, garden design, Korean drama and natural and topographical land formations. 

Her work imagines larger possibilities – forecasting new, interesting, beautiful and existential paradigms. 

The drawings are largely non-representational and abstract –diagrammatic; topographical and full vistas.

Achala participates on many levels with the arts community, as an artist, grant writer and past board member of SPACEs and Zygote Press.  Achala has also been a member of several drawing collaboratives, the first dating from 1995, Drawing in the Community, led by Ed Mieczkowski, a former faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Art and eventually participated in Newcelle, a more focused drawing collaborative.  She worked closely with the artist, John Jackson on drawings and ceramics; involving a stylistic interchange of ideas and methods.  

Exhibition History

2017     NewCelle + 1, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve 

2016     Cleveland Museum of Art – Circle Village – Invited Artist 

2015     Staff Art Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformer Station, 

2015    5 by 5, Frames Unlimited

2015    Regional Exhibition Works on Paper, Morgan Art of Papermaking

2015    Syncope, two- person show (with Rachel Beamer), Heights Art Gallery

2015    The Big Show, invitational and benefit for Zygote Press at Convivium Gallery

2015    Invitational, Monster Drawing Rally, SPACEs Gallery

2014     Stone Canoe Journal, included in annual issue of juried literary/arts journal of artists with connections to Central New York. 

2014    The Big Show, Regional, Zygote Press

2013    Obsessive Intracacies, Group Show, Zygote Press

2013    Group show, Benefit, SPACES Gallery.

2012    Paperworks, regional, new works on paper, Heights Arts

2012    2nd Annual Arts Quarter Exhibition, Juried Regional, Zygote Press

2012    Asian artists and Asia-inspired works, as part of Asian Festival at Asia Towne Plaza

2012    76th Annual National Invitational Show, Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH

2011    New works by Pam McKee and Achala Wali, Mezzanine Gallery

2010   Collections as Evidence of Now, Exhibition, Zygote Press