About The Artist

Hemu Aggarwal earned her Master’s Degree (MFA) in graphic design from City College of New York, NY. She has extensive experience in arts field working for creative design firms in N.Y.C. for over 10 years. Her assignments include designing record album covers for artists such as Tom Jones, Mantovani, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frigid Pink, Marmalade, Brotherhood of Men, Ted Health, Frank Chacksfield, Will Mitchell, one of the last albums of the Beatles, singles for John Lennon and Yoko Ono and some more. She worked on many packaging designs such as Buddy L Toys, G. I. Joe, Weebles, Welch’s Jam, Kleenex, etc. 
She established her own creative design firm in New York State, AQ Graphics, Inc. and ran it successfully for over 25 years. During which she designed many Hip-Hop albums including Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five’s “Message” album, The Sugar Hill Gang, Positive Force, Treacherous Three, Crash Crew, Sequence, Quincy Jones, Joey Travolta, and many others. She also designed a series of Collector’s records of the 50s and 60s in which a few famous artists such as Dionne Warwick, Ritchie Valance, Dion, Del Shannon, and the Everly Brothers were included. She worked extensively on re-make of the entire Chess Records Catalog which included artists such as: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Benny Goodman, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, The O’Jays, Etta James, Charlie Parker, Flamingos, Bobby Womack, etc. 
 She thinks: “esthetics is a major consideration in designing each piece. The focus is to create paintings that have visual beauty, harmony in colors plus interesting composition. I am especially interested in creating variety of textures by using all kind of tools”. Her work is mostly stylized, modern or abstract subjective'. 

 Awards, Exhibitions and Recognitions: One of her photographs used as backdrop for hall of fame event at Waldorf Astoria, New York City - 2004 Exposure Award - The Louvre Museum, Paris – 2015 https://hemaggar.see.me/exposure2015 Winner of 2nd place in the competition “color” by CAGO (Contemporary Art Gallery Online), November 2015. Category: Acrylic Paintings.