Bhat uses sculptures, installations, video, and text, to develop a unique visual language exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other.

[1] Her work draws inspiration from her home in the foothills of Sonoma Mountains, California as well as her rural agrarian community upbringing in Southern India.

[3] Born in Puttur, Karnataka, India Ashwini Bhat has a master's degree in literature from Bangalore University.

[5] Bhat lives in a small unincorporated town in Northern California with poet, writer Forrest Gander.

[6] In 2023, Bhat became a certified Naturalist at the Fairfield Osborn Preserve, a research site for Sonoma State University’s Center for Environmental Inquiry.