Selected Articles & Publications

2023

• Mimicry and Misrecognition: Re-dressing the Colonial Relation in Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Photographic Transformations, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Volume 7, 102-127. By Dr. Rebecca Brown, Johns Hopkins University

2022

• THE UNREMEMBERED: Indian Soldiers of World War II, Ars Orientalis 51, Smithsonian, Museum of Asian Art, January

2021

• Unseeing Empire, Bakirathi Mani; Duke University PressFace Time: A History of the Photographic
• Portrait, Philip Prodger; Thames & Hudson
• “Images of India: from courtesans and colonial rule to a child’s-eye view – in pictures ,” The Guardian, Dec. 17, 2021
• Avantika Bhuyan, “MAP’s latest show traces the trajectory of Indian photography,” Mint, Dec. 20, 2021

2020

• James, Merin. “Photography project celebrates unsung Indian soldiers of World War 2,” DT Next, Feb. 2, 2020
• Chattopadhyay, Pallavi. “Unknown Memories of India,” Indian Express, Feb. 3, 2020
• Alexander, Deepa.  “The unremembered Indian soldiers of WWII: a photography project,” The Hindu, Jan. 25, 2020

2019

• Five artists engage with history and its reclamation at the Kochi Biennale – in order to create a new map to an old world, The Indian Express, Jan 13, 2019
• “The exoticised images of India by Western photographers have left a dark legacy” Jain., Mahima;       Scroll.in, Feb. 20, 2019
• Born in England, raised in India, this photography prof from University of Rhode Island is channelling immigrant experiences through her work, EdexLive, May 15, 2019
• Artist Annu Matthew Is Reclaiming The Cultural Past By Unearthing And Archiving Untold Histories, IndianWomenblog, June 6, ’19
• Chakrapani, Saranya. “Artist immortalizes WWII veterans,” Times of India, Sept. 29, 2019

2018

• Possibilities for a non-alienated life at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Dorian Batycka, Selections Arts, Dec 18th, 2018
• ‘This is a thought-provoking Biennale’: An artist column by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Indian Express Indulge, Dec. 28th,
• Five Questions with: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Emily Gowdey-Backus, Providence Business News, Dec 28th
• “The Virtual Immigrant,” College Arts Association, ART Journal, May
• “Indians Celebrating India at Houston FotoFest,” Lensblog, New York Times, Feb., 27th
• “The parallax view: the art of envisioning the South Asian American diaspora,” Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, South Asian Diaspora, Volume 10, 2018 – Issue 1
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Gerard Lange, Focal Plane: A Journal for Photography, Educators, and Students, vol. 1, no. 5, 2018, pp.47-48.

2017

• The MFA’s (Un)expected Families Exhibit Puts a Twist on Classic Family Portraits, Claire Tran, Boston Magazine – Art, December 7, 2017
• A New York exhibition of South Asian diaspora art teases out some important revelations and some trivialities, Ratik Asokan,  The Hindu, July 29, 2017
• Lucid Dreams and Diasporic Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Art in America, November 1, 2017
• On Being an Indian Woman, through the lens of one,  Salonee Gadgil, Creative Review, UK
• Seeing People: A Conversation With the Artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Shilpi Suneja, Kartika Review, Summer 2017
• A New York exhibition of South Asian diaspora art teases out some important revelations and some trivialities, Ratik Asokan, The Hindu, July 29, 2017
• Migrant Moment, Gayatri Sinha, The Hindu, January 20, 2017
• The Reflexive Self: Participant as Observer, Lenscratch Production, Taylor & Francis Group, USA
• Splash! Bodies in water, PDN Photo of the day, December

2016

• A photo-animation project reminds Pakistan and India about the shared pain of Partition, Baxter, Rhema Mukti, Scroll.in, Oct. 28, 2016
•  The Smithsonian gets experimental and field tests a new form for bringing Artists to the Public, Menachem Wecker, Smithsonian Magazine, June 8, 2016
• Arts groups to host identity-themed pop-up at Smithsonian Arts and Industries museum building, Peggy McGlone, Washington Post, May 27, 2016
• “13 Iconic Photographers on the Self Portrait,” Better Photography, March.

2015

• Indelible Memories, Holland Cotter, New York Times, Arts, December 18, 2015
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Indelible Memories, L’oeil de la Photographie, Paris, France, November 2, 2015
• English Tobacco and Polaroid Transfers, PDN photo of the day, New York, NY, November 19,2015
• Indian life and culture, framed by outsiders and natives, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, Boston, MA, October 27, 2015
• Exploring Generations, Dr. Deepali Dewan, ROM Magazine, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
• Are you Indian or are you Indian? A photographer transforms colonial images of Native Americans, Scroll.in, Mridula Chari, June 27, 2015
• Indian Artists Play with Photography at San Jose Museum, San Francisco Chronicle, Kimberly Chun, June 24, 2015
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Generations at the Royal Ontario Museum, Lens/cratch, Aline Smithson, June 12, 2015
• Beyond Bollywood: Exhibiting South Asian America, Journal of Asian American Studies, Bakirathi Mani, June 2015
• What’s Racist About Dots and Feathers?, Medium, AJ+, May 20, 2015
• Royal Ontario Museum Opens GENERATIONS Photography Exhibit Today, Broadway World, May 2, 2015
• Toronto’s Contact photography festival: 10 shows to see, The Guardian, May 1, 2015
• Contact Festival unchained, Toronto Star, Murray Whyte, April 27, 2015
• The Greatest Indian Art Show of the Spring is Happening in America, The Huffington Post, Mallika Rao, March 2015
• Review: Photography Exhibitions from India and Mideast, San Jose Mercury News, Robert Taylor, February 9, 2015

2014

• Exhibition Review: Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, Photography and Culture, Ruth Rosengarten, Vol 7, Issue 3, November 2014
• 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
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian From India, Black and White Magazine, George Slade, Issue 102 April 2014, p.36-45
• True Stories, The Caravan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, May 1, 2014

2013

• Destinazione mondo – Forme e politiche dell’alterità nell’arte contemporanea, Valentina Luisini, ombre corte/culture, Prime edizione: Novembre 2013, p.122-123
• The Mother, British Journal of Photography, October 1, 2013
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: SPE Future Focus Support Grant Winner, Lens/cratch, September 23, 2013
• The Candid Frame #191: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, The Candid Frame, Ibarionex, June 17, 2013
• India- Angry Young Women, Unchanging World, Lassi with Lavina, Levina Melwani, April 12, 2013
• Your Suggestions on Curbing Violence Against Women in India, The New York Times, Hanna Ingber, February 6, 2013
• Bollywood Satirized, Tasveer Journal, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, February 4, 2013

2012

• Talking to Annu Palakunnathu Matthew with Sunanda K. Sanyal, VARTA Magazine, Vol 4, No. 1, p.46-53
• Frames of Catharsis: Photos are Precious Sites of Memory, The Sunday Guardian, Nidha Gupta, September 30, 2012
• The Memory Project, The Times of India, Malini Nair, September 29, 2012
• When I Say I Am Indian, BLOUINARTINFO, Satarupa Paul, September 11, 2012

2010

• Work in 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 Self-Portraits by Susan Bright, Thames and Hudson
• Interview with Professor Andrew Cohen about the Virtual Immigrant and other portfolios. Tasveer

2009

• Networks 2009 DVD (video on artist), Providence RI. Video sample hosted on YouTube
• Interview with Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Asian Contemporary Art Week
• Time Out Bengalore
• Face Forward, The Guide Mid-Day
• Switching Between Cultures, Deccan Herald
• Art Talk, Deccan Herald
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Interviewed by Dr. Andrew Cohen, 2009, Tasveer Gallery

2008

• Up Against the Boundaries, Together and Alone, The Boston Globe
• Still Life Through the Looking Glass, Jetwings Airline Magazine
• India: Public Spaces/ Private Places, The New York Times
• URI Main Gallery Exhibition Explores Issues of Identity and Globalization, South County Independent
• Gospel of Matthew, Time Out Mumbai

2007

• Freeze Frame, The Hindu
• Three R.I. artists win coveted MacColl Johnson Fellowships, The Providence Journal
• Nostalgia Through a Lens, Sunday Times of India
• Rendezvous with Indians, Mid-Day
• Where Pictures Do the Talking, Deccan Herald
• Intimate Cultures,Deccan Herald
• Capturing Culture in its Myriad Forms, New Indian Express
• Beyond the Lens, Femina, India

2006

• Cultural Studies, ART
• In the Frame- Honest Portraits, Elle

2005

• Going Native, Chronogram
• Fellowship Winners Stand Out in RISCA Gallery Exhibition, South County Independent
• Colonizing the Colonizer, The Photo Review

2004

• Colonizing the Colonizer, Art India
• Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art, The New York Times
• Identity, The Village Voice

2002

• BLINK, 100 Photographers, 10 Curators and 10 Writers, Phaidon Press
• Bollywood Cowboys and Indians from India, Lightworks, Contact Sheet
• Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film
• IIC Quarterly, Indian International Center, Security and Censorship, Summer 2002, Vol. 29
• Mortar for the Cracks, Boston Globe
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Film Show
• Familiar Territories, New Visions, Photography Quarterly
• Bollywood posters tell a story, BBC news
• Identity, The Village Voice

2001

• As Chelsea Expands, a Host of Visions Rush In, The New York Times
• Now & Then; Time connects works in DeCordova’s annual exhibition, Boston Herald
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Ketaki Seth and Pamela Singh, The New Yorker
• SMIRK, ART REVIEWS; Artist’s Mondrian Intimations, The New York Times
• 2001 PRC Member’s Exhibition, In the Loupe
• Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, The 2001 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
• The Many Indias, Art India
• Bawdy Burlesque, Faucous Ribaldry, NY Arts
• 2001 Annual Works Make Connections, Boston Herald
• Creative Juices Flow at DeCordova Exhibition, Boston Globe