Past Events

2014

• Forty Years of Blue Sky, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
• How one photographer captures changing immigrant families, The World, Public Radio International, Monica Campbell
• An Indian From India, University of Massachusets, Dartmouth, MA
• Bollywood Satirized, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
• Open Wound, University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Gallery, Kingston, RI
• An Indian from India Photographs Both, New York Times Lensblog, David Gonzales
• **Pairing “Indian” and “India”, International New York Times, April 23, 2014
• Which Indian Are You? Feather or Dot? (Not a quiz), Buzzfeed.com, Tasneem Nashrulla
• Portraits Challenge Cultural Perception, CNN Photos Blog, Helena Cavendish de Moura
• Dot not Feather, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Beyond Bollywood blog, Priya Chaya
• Memória, OÁ Galeria – Arte Contemporânea, Vittoria, Brazil, June 2014
• Presenter, Seminario Internacional De Fotografia, Universidad Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian From India, Black and White Magazine, George Slade, Issue 102 April 201, p.36-45
• Beyond Bollywood Indian-Americans Shape the Nation, Smithsonian Institute, National History Museum, Washington DC, Feb 26
• Destinazione mondo – Forme e politiche dell’alterità nell’arte contemporanea, Valentina Luisini, ombre corte/culture, Prime edizione: Novembre 2013, p.122-123
• Between Cultures, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, Feb 20
• SPE National Future Focus Project Support Grant, Society for Photographic Education, Conference, Balitmore, March
• Conversation XVII: Photographic Memory, Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, KS
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: SPE Future Focus Project Support Grant Winner, Lenscratch

2013

• Review of Home Truths: Motherhood, Photography and Loss, British Journal of Photography, Oct 2013
• Convergence: Contemporary Art from India and the Diaspora, The William Benton Museum of Art – October 22 – December 15, University of Connecticut, Storrs – Connecticut
• Self, Model, and Self as Other, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, July 13 – September 27
• Light Work, Syracuse The Lubin House, New York, NYC
• Home Truths: Motherhood, Photography and Loss, Foundling Museum, London, England
• >Grace, print exhibition, Delhi Photo Festival 2013, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
• Work included in book by Susan Bright, Home Truths: Motherhood, Photography and Loss, Photographers’ Gallery, London, available from Amazon
• Work included in Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques, Focal Press, available from Amazon
• The First 15: Photography from the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
• Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Israel, February
• Panel moderator, “Virtual and International Cultural Collaborations,” SPE 50th National Conference, Chicago, IL, March
• 37 Still Lives, Gallery Art.Motif, New Delhi
• Conflux; contemporary South Asian Art from the University of Connecticut Collection, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
• A Photograph is Not An Opinion – Contemporary Photography by Women, The Terrace Gallery, Jehangir Complex, Mumbai www.focusfestivalmumbai.com
• Presenter, Mediating Modernity Festival, Shristi College of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore
• 40 Artists/40 Years (26mb PDF), Louise & Bernard Palitz Gallery, NYC and Ellis Gallery @ Light Work, Syracuse, NY
• WOMEN IMAGE HOT, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2012

• Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, August-December
• Radiate, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, October 31 – December 15
• Her Stories 15 years of SAWCC, Queens Museum, NY, August
• 37 Still Lives, Tasveer Gallery, Bangalore, India, August
• 37 Still Lives, Design Gallery, NID, Ahmedabad, India, October
• Social Order: Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA, October 26 – December 15
• En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent CollectionAljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
• Of Places and Journey, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
• Bologna Art Fair, Z20 Gallery, Bologna, Italy, January
• Tasveer Gallery, Indian Art Fair, New Delhi, India, January
• Presenter, Chaaya, Photographer Conference, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, February
• Speaker, 2012 SPE National Conference, San Francisco, Friday, March 23rd
• Holga Inspire, Soho Photo, NYC, Opening March 8th
• Revealing and Concealing, Identity, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
• En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of the Americas, March 14-May 16

2011

• Re-Generations (solo), Z2O Gallery, Roma, Italy Sept. 20– Oct. 20. Opening reception Sept. 20
• Conversations, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA – Nov. 12, 2011
• En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, LightWork, Robert B. Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY
• Holga Inspire, The Center For Fine Art Photography, Colorado
• Revolutionizing Cultural Identity, Pier 21 Canada’s Immigration Museum, Nova Scotia, June
• Photo Identities, William Benton Art Museum, University of Connecticut, CT
• Re-Generations and An Indian from India included in AIPAD, New York, March 16-20
• Transcultural Identities, Ernest G Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Feb 17 – March 18. Artist Talk March 10, noon – 3:30pm
• Holga Inspire at The Icon Gallery, Los Angeles, March 5- April 1

2010

• Presenter — Searching Looks, Univ. of Pennsylvannia, Philadelphia, PA Feb. 26
• The Virtual Immigrant, Tasveer @Seagull, 36C S. P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata, 22 Feb. to 1Mar. 2 to 8 p.m
• The Virtual Immigrant, >Tasveer @ Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, 22 / 26, K. Dubhash Marg, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, 5 – 13 Feb., 11am-7pm (except Sunday)
• The Virtual Immigrant, Tasveer, New Delhi, 8 January to 17 January
• Transitional/Transcultural, New Paradigms for a New Century: Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (Milwaukee, WI) Jan 1 –February 20, 2010
• Work in book — The Digital Eye by Sylvia Wolf, Director of the Henry Art Gallery and former curator of photography at the Whitney Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Prestel publishing
• Work in book — Self-Portraits by Susan Bright, Thames and Hudson

2009

• Networks 2009 DVD (video on artist), Providence RI, watch video
• Holga Inspire, Umbrella Art Gallery, New York City, NY, Dec. 9 – Jan.16, 2010 Opening reception Dec. 9, 6–8pm
• Juror Holgapalooza, hosted by Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com
• Changing Skin: Fine Art Company (Mumbai, India) November 21 – December 4 More info
• Outside In: Indian Art Abroad, Sun Valley Center for the ArtsIdaho Dec. 18 – Feb. 20 More info
• Panelist, Simmons College. Expose Yourself II: Developing Your Career as a Fine Art Photographer. Panel with Leslie Hewitt, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Michelle Lamuniere, and Joseph Carroll.
• The Virtual Immigrant, Stockton College, NJ, Sept. 1 – Oct 30. Oct. 1 Artist Talk & reception
• The Virtual Immigrant, Tasveer, Bangalore, August 28 – 19 September, More info. Opening reception with artist August 28th
• Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (Providence, RI): Fellowship Merit Award in Photography. More info.
• The Contemporary Art Purchasing Program: 2008-2009 Selections, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland (College Park, MD), August 31 – October. More info.
• Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China), Guangzhou Photo Biennial, May – July
• Open Portfolios, Asian Contemporary Art Week. Article.
• India Moderna, through Feb.15, IVAM – Institut d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain. More info.
• The Virtual Immigrant, Gallery 800, Monmouth University, NJ

2008

• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces. More info.
• David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University (Providence, RI), Self and Others. More info.
• Goethe Haus Gallery (Jakarta, Indonesia), Pameran Foto Internasional
• Noorderlicht’s Another Asia di Jakarta. More info.
• Vadehra Gallery (New Delhi, India): CLICK, Contemporary Photography in India
• Bernard Toale Gallery (Boston, MA): Picturing India. More info.
• Oakland University (MI): Photography and the Changing Face of Immigration. More info.
• Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY) All Hot and Bothered. More info.

2007

• Sepia International (New York City): Transfigurations. More info.
• The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA): Double Consciousness. More info.
• Newark Museum (Newark, NJ): INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces – Contemporary
• Photography & Video Art. More info.
• Rutgers University (Newark, NJ): Imago:Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography. More info.
• Langhans Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic):Another Asia (selected works)
• Tasveer Gallery (Bangalore, India): An Indian from India & Memories of India. More info.
• Foss & Gandi (Mumbai, India): An Indian from India & Memories of India
• University of Missouri (Springfield, MO): From Bollywood to Virtual India