AWARDS AND HONORS
Times Square Award
FInalist
2018
Academy of Art, Highland Park
Pedagogical Award
2023
2025
Alamo Drafthouse
Animation Picks
2019
2021
Douglas Wirls
1st Place Medal Design
Lift Off Global Network
3rd Place Finalist
DHWANI SIKRI Born 1999, Edison, NJ
EDUCATION
2023 BFA, Pratt Institute, School of Art, Brooklyn, NY
PROJECTS
2026 “Brown Eyes” Animated Music Video
2025 Woodshop Artisan for Christopher Spitzmiller
2024 Hat Animation Advertisement for Color Blob
2024 3 Stories Interactive Game VCS with NYU Game Program
2023 Compositor on Bill Plympton’s “Slide” Feature Animated Film
2023 “Hamro” Capstone Project Pratt Institute
2023 Post Production Head for Covenant House Advertisement
2023 Glenn Cat Ear Muffs AD for GILF Gavin
2022 Fabrication Artist “The Sick Bay” Stop-motion Short Film
2022 Lady Pink’s “Roses on Rosendale” Rosendale, NY
2021 Lady Pink’s Mural in New Paltz, NY
TEACHING
2023 AAA (Academy of Animated Art) Course at La Scuola D’ Italia
2024 AAA Course at Danny Kaye PS 149
2024 3D Game Design Course at Ethan Allen PS 306
2021 Art In Protest Culture Co-Op Panel Finalist for Racial Justice Category
2021 Academy of Art Highland Park Senior Instructor
2015 Academy of Art Highland Park Student Instructor
AWARDS
2025 Finalist for Midnight Moment Times Square Arts
2020 1st Finalist Medal Design Competition DTA for Douglas Wirls
2019 4th Finalist for First Time Filmmaker Lift-Off Global Network
2018 Presidential Merit Scholarship Pratt Institute
2018 Academy of Art Highland Park Pedagogical Award
2018 Advanced Placement Portfolio Art Award, South Brunswick, NJ
2017 Academy of Art Highland Park Pedagogical Award
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2020 "V and The Day" Radical Justice Buffalo International Film Festival Buffalo, NY
2020 “V and The Day” 98 Collective X Jump Into The Light Virtual Exhibition Brooklyn, NY
2019 Gallery House Group Exhibition “Emergence?” Brooklyn, NY
2019 Langston Hughes House “Bullseye” Harlem, NY
2019 Student Art Spaces Gallery, “A Memory From A Past Life” Seattle, WA
2019 “Art as a Curator” Holyrad Studios Gallery Brooklyn, NY
2019 Exhibition of “In The Name of Khan…” at Gallery House Brooklyn, NY
2017 Solo Exhibition “Fly and Rat” AAHP Gallery Space, Highland Park, NJ
VOLUNTEERING
2022 Adhikaar Volunteer Rewards Exposition Astoria, NY
2022 Student Volunteer SIGGRAPH Conference Vancouver, CA
2022 VR Theater SIGGRAPH Vancouver, CA
SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suites, Maya Autodesk, ZBrush, Substance Painter, UE5, Procreate, Nuke Foundry, After Effects, Microsoft Suites.