News & Exhibitions

2025

Decatur Arts Alliance, The Book As Art exhibition held at Decatur Library, Georgia

Rochester Public Library, 2025 International Art of the Book, Rochester, NY

MIT Libraries, Books and Bites Event: Spring 2025 Artists’ Books, Cambridge, MA

Hand Bookbinders of California 53rd Annual Members’ Exhibition, American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA

Bound with Pride webinar at American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA

Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library – Alice C. Sabatini Gallery: 3D Art Exhibition, Topeka KS

American Bookbinding Museum Webinar: Exploring CutOuts: Techniques, History, and Modern Tools

2024

Hand Bookbinders of California 52nd Annual Members’ Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

Vidai featured in Artists Books Unshelved by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

From the Bench of Insiya Dhatt from SF Center for the Book on

2023

Focus On Book Arts Challenge Book 2023, What Dreams are Made of Exhibition First Place winner of Viewer’s Choice Award 

23Sandy Dreams: an International Juried Exhibition of Book Art Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound- Best in Show Award (2nd Place)

Artery, CONTENT a Juried Artist Book Exhibit, Davis, CA

Hand Bookbinders of California 51st Annual Members’ Exhibition held at Arion Press, San Francisco, CA

2022

Baylor University What is a book? A Book Arts Exhibit

Hand Bookbinders of California 50th Annual Members’ Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library.

The Guild of Book Workers California Chapter Book Art Artifact, San Francisco Center for the Book.

Focus on Book Arts Faculty/Staff Exhibit at Valley Fair Gallery & Virtual Gallery

Book as Art v.10 at Decatur Arts Alliance

TV INTERVIEW: Bay Area Bountiful: Made Here – Northern California Public Media – (PBS)

Artist’s Books are pieces of art in which imagination, artistic sensibility and the book format intersect in three dimensions. Artist Insiya Dhatt creates them with stunning intricacy and design inspirations rooted in her Indian culture.

2021

By Hand: Women & Books: Exhibit, Fleet Library at RISD

Movable Medley Exhibition at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colorado

Unseen Exhibition at at 23Sandy and form & concept , Santa Fe, New Mexico.

HBC49 Annual Members Exhibition at American Book Binding Museum, San Francisco, California

12th Annual Altered Book Exhibition at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, California Awarded First Place for David’s Ankle, collaboration with Bridget McGraw by jurors Donna Seager of Seager Gray Gallery and Mary Austin, co-founder of the San Francisco Center for the Book. 

2020

HBC48 Annual Members’ Exhibition, at the Grabhorn Gallery at Arion Press. See the online issuu.com catalog here

(retro)(intro)spection : Moving past into the forward Exhibition at San Francisco Center for Bookarts, San Francisco, California See online catalog

(RETRO)(INTRO)SPECTION: ARTIST IN CONVERSATION AT SFCB

Panel: Book Club for Book Artists at Bay Area Book Artists Jam

2019

Bay Area Book Artists Jam – Members exhibition at Palo Alto Center

Focus On Book Arts Conference 2019 – Challenge Book – winner of Best Content & Structure Award for The Heart Longs

2017

Narratives in Art and Technology with Insiya Dhatt – Interview with Ayesha Kohli at Creative Spark

2015

Photo Benefit Auction 2015, Baxter St, Camera Club of NY

Green Point Gallery, Brooklyn NY – Street Photography

2014

Green Point Gallery, Brooklyn NY – Beach Pictures