b. 1994

Education
2018     Home Workspace Programme, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2016     BCA in CAP, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India

Solo Exhibitions:

2023     red curtains opening, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
2022     Special FX, Blueprint12, New Delhi, India
2017     The Real Taste of India, Mumbai Art Room, Bombay, India (with Chinar Shah)
2011     More Automobiles Than Are Parkable, David Hall, Fort Kochi, India
2010     Freedom Road, Vernissage Art Gallery, Cochin, India

Group Exhibitions:

2023     Bare Acts, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (forthcoming)
2023     Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12G, Philadelphia, USA (forthcoming)
2023     Gathering, The Corner Gallery, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2023     How to know what’s really happening, Betonhalle in silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany
2022     How to Reappear, TKM Warehouse, Kochi, India
2022     Lot 49, The Luminary, St. Louis, USA
2022     Parsec, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India
2022     Copy Right, India International Centre, New Delhi, India
2021     at the kitchen table, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India
2021     First Look, New Museum and Rhizome, online
2021     DCAW – Blueprint12, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2021     Platform, Blueprint12, online
2020     Escaleras Futuras, Galería Santa Fé, Bogota, Colombia
2019     Sickle & Code, Museum of History and Cultural Heritage, Lakatamia, Cyprus
2019     View: India, Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden
2019     Between Dog and Wolf, Home Sweet Home, New Delhi, India
2017     Double Road, whiteBOX, Munich, Germany
2017     Common Ground #3, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2017     ARCADE, Klara Kiss Zip Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2017     Material Light, Mill Hall, Mattanchery, Kerala, India
2017     #exstrange, e-Bay and www.exstrange.com, online
2016     3BHK, Home Sweet Home, Heritage Apartments, Fort Cochin, India
2016     Document V, The Luminary, St.Louis, USA
2016     Edit 4, CEMA Gallery, Srishti Old Campus, Yelahanka New Town, India
2016     A Bit to Eat, Taste of India Restaurant, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015     Templates for Everyone, We’ll Figure It Out, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015     Common Ground #2, Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India
2015     Where the Heart Is, Home Sweet Home, Bangalore, India
2014     The C(h)roma Show, Croma Store, Bangalore, India
2014     Now Showing, Rex Theatre, Bangalore, India
2013     Lost Thoughts and Found Ideas, G.159, Yelahanka New Town, India
2012     GenNext VI, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India

Screenings:
2023     Record Store Day, The Courtyard, Bangalore, India
2022     We are the Aliens we are Looking for, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India
2021     from cinema, Artists in (R)evolution Collective, online
2020     Cinemagora, UNI, Zurich, Switzerland
2020     06/02/20, Kinoclub Fallow, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019     Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2016     Self as Document, Srishti Grad Show, Bangalore, India

Lectures, Panels and Workshops:
2022     What Future Hides at Bikaner House, Take on Art, New Delhi, India (panel)
2022     The Age of the Photograph, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kochi (symposium)
2022     Staging the Contemporary, Ishara Art Foundation, online (panel)
2021     FHOT Photobook Lab F21, Paris College of Art, online (lecture)
2021     SECOND(light), Booked: Art Book Pop-Ups, Tai Kwun, online (lecture)
2020     Perspectives on Photobooks, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, online (panel)
2020     Reliable Copy, Guftgu Talk Series, Offset Projects, online (lecture)
2020     Publishing Maneuvers Symposium, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (seminar)
2019     Publishing in an Expanded Field, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India (lecture)
2019     How to Make Flubber, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, Cyprus (lecture & workshop)
2019     Haleema Hashim’s Photographs, Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden (lecture)

Residencies:
2023     Amant Foundation – Studio and Research Residency Program, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2021     Homebound Residency: Digital Communities, Warehouse421, online
2019     ZK/U, Berlin, Germany (supported by Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore)
2015     1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India

Grants:
2023     India Foundation for the Arts – Research Grant (for Reliable Copy)
2022     New York University Abu Dhabi – Research Kitchen Grant
2021     Sharjah Art Foundation – FOCAL POINT (for Reliable Copy)
2021     India Foundation for the Arts – Explorations
2020     Rhizome – Info-Wars Microgrant
2020     Experimenter – GENERATOR Cooperative Art Production Fund (with Chinar Shah)
2020     India Foundation for the Arts – Research Grant (for Reliable Copy)
2020     Akar Prakar Contemporary – ArtVarta Publishing Grant
2017     Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation – Mumbai Art Room Exhibition Grant (with Chinar Shah)

Curatorial:
2018           Reliable Copy, Bangalore, India (publishing house)
2016           3BHK, Fort Cochin, India (exhibition)
2014           Ummijaan: Making Visible a World Within, Mattancherry, India (exhibition)
2013-16      G.159, Bangalore, India (project space)

Texts:
2023     Interview with Suman Gopinath and Edgar Demello – Home Sweet Home
2023     Interview with Sreshta Rit Premnath – Home Sweet Home
2023     Two Poems – ASAP Art
2022     Extensions and Expansions – IDEAS Journal (with Samira Bose and Sarasija Subramanian)
2022     Nostalgia as Special Effects – BOMB (with Anisha Baid)
2021     TP:S3 – HOAX
2021     at the kitchen table (adjust as per taste) – MARCH (with Arushi Vats & Sarasija Subramanian)
2021     Lightning Fast Body Temp. – Tariff Mag
2021     M.K. Stickers – Rhizome
2021     Luminous Enhancement – Photo South Asia
2021     Reliable Display Copy Distribute – MARCH (with Elaine W. Ho)
2020     Reliable Display Copy Distribute – BKKABF Open Access (with Elaine W. Ho)
2020     Interview with Mario Santanilla – BOMB
2019     Interview with Niclas Ostlind and Niyatee Shinde – Buchhandlung Walther König
2017     Interview with Charu Maithani – PROPRIOCEPTION
2017     Lines from Sci-Fi – Poetry Wales Magazine
2016     On the Figuring Out of Things – Temporary Art Review
2015     Exhibition Review: Drive by Video – Temporary Art Review