Meet Sneha Shrestha (aka IMAGINE)—one of the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize artists—at a special print signing event! Purchase a limited-edition signed and numbered print, a unique artist-created gift that supports the ICA’s artistic and educational programs. Prints are available while supplies last, first-come, first-served.

Print details:
 Image size: 11.25 x 16 in
 Paper size: 16 x 20 in
 Screen print on 320 gram Coventry Rag paper
 $150*
 Edition of 100, available while supplies last
*This print is not eligible for ICA Member or ICA Store discounts

About Sneha Shrestha (aka IMAGINE)

Sneha Shrestha (born 1987, Kathmandu, Nepal; lives and works in Kathmandu, Boston, and Somerville, MA), also known as IMAGINE, creates paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and larger-than-life murals that harmoniously blend her native Nepali and Sanskrit languages, mantras, sacred sounds used in meditation and prayer, and American graffiti hand styles. There are hundreds of Nepali scripts, and Shrestha’s work actively pushes against the monolithic notion that they “all look the same”—a generalization that often extends to entire ethnic groups and cultures. Shrestha celebrates the beauty and diversity of Nepali language throughout her practice. She received her MA in Education from Harvard University. Shrestha has had a solo exhibition at Cantor Arts Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (2024) and participated in group exhibitions at Wrightwood 659, Chicago (2024–25); Nepal Arts Council, Kathmandu (2024); and Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, New York (2024). Her additional honors include a commissioned 30-foot sculpture at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2024); a grant from the Collective Futures Fund (2024); becoming the first contemporary Nepali artist the be included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s permanent collection (2023); inclusion in WBUR The ARTery’s 25 Millennials of Color (2019); and recognition as one of the 100 most influential women in Nepal by the Nepal Cultural Council (2018). Shrestha was recently selected for a studio residency at Boston Center for the Arts.