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Curatorial Projects 2026

Uneven Trajectories Podcast commissioned by The British Council UK

2024

- ALAM عَملَ Elyas Alavi at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
- ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala, Arts House, City of Melbourne
- ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಣೆ  nireekshane, Arts House, City of Melbourne 
   in partnership with PHOTO 2024
- ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala Film Program, at Federation Square, Arts House
- ಒಟ್ಟಿಗೆ Ottige Communal Meal with Jagath Dheerasekara & Lara Chamas, 
   for ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala, Arts House, City of Melbourne
- உயர்வு Uyirvu window commission, ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala, 2024, Arts House, City of Melbourne
- ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala Audio Tour, 2024, Arts House, City of Melbourne
- ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಣೆ nireekshane Audio Tour, 2024, Arts House, City of Melbourne

2023

- this way, emancipation window commission by Shrujana Shridhar, 
   for ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ Okkoota 2023, Arts House
- Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ , Arts House, City of Melbourne, April 2023
- ಒಟ್ಟಿಗೆ Ottige Communal Meal with Lara Chamas
  for ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ Okkoota 2023, ArtsHouse
- Star dust wall commission by Kirtika Kain for ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ Okkoota 2023, Arts House

2016-2020

- the-lack-of at The Wrong Biennale with Now You Have Authority
- Lacunae at Sluice Biennial
- NYHA Volumes
- Post Student Art School at Tate Exchange
- Shed Studio Residency


Artist Exhibitions2025

- SPAM New Media Festival (Seattle, USA)

2024

- Remedy at PARI (Sydney, Australia)
- Poste audio at Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK (Montréal, Canada)

2023

- AI Ancestral Immediacies, HKW Berlin
- Discovery Award 2023, Louis Roederer foundation, Rencontres d'Arles

2022

- Topographies of Resistance, Blindside Mobile (Melbourne, Australia)
- Transmutation, Darwin Festival (Darwin, Australia)
- ARKO Art & Tech Festival (Seoul, South Korea)
- Speech Sounds, Carlow Arts Festival (Carlow, Ireland)
- SITE Gallery Digital Realness (Sheffield, UK)
- Rerouting, Contemporary Calgary (Calgary, Canada)
- VAICA II at India International Centre (Delhi, India)

2021

- ADA-DADA Residency Showcase, SAVAC (Toronto, Canada)
- Vital Capacities, videoclub UK (Web)
- Sudden Beams, Platform Asia (UK)
- Inter- Multi- Trans-, VIVO Media Arts (Vancouver, Canada)
- Nowness Asia X Baesianz (Web)
- Hoax Publication (Web)
- Platform Art Projects, (Web/UK)
- Remote Closeness, National Gallery of Fine Art (Amman, Jordan)
- Vector Festival, InterAccess (Toronto, Canada)
- Busan International Video Art Festival (Busan, South Korea)
- Reclaiming AI Futures, Mozilla Foundation (Web)
- New Future, Industra (Brno, Czech Republic)
- VAICA Festival (India)

2020

- Awaaz / Essential Interference (Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY)
- Empathy Loading, Furtherfield and Royal College of Art (London, UK)
- Unseen, Simultan Festival XV (Timisoara, Romania)
- End Result, DECESO (Rome, Italy)

2019

- Streams and Channels, Center for the Digital Arts (Peekskill, USA)
- Saavdhaan, Regimes of Truth Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India)
- Artists Unite, Red Fort (Delhi, India)
- Exist, Walkin Studios (Bangalore, India)
- Peekskill Film Festival (Peekskill, USA)

2018

- Building Bridges Art Multidisciplines (Kolkata, India)
- Building Bridges Gallery Art Konsult (New Delhi, India)
- Building Bridges Gallery Sumukha (Bangalore, India)
- Here, There, Everywhere Birmingham Art Summit (Birmingham, UK)
- Tse Tse Fly Middle East, Live in London
- Singularity Now, Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece)
- Multiplication of Rhythm, We Love Aarau (Aarau, Switzerland)
- Being together is not enough, Five Years Gallery (London, UK)
- The 90 Second, Winnipeg Underground Film Fest (Winnipeg, Canada)
- Ging Bang, Walkin Studios (Bangalore, India)
- WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Canada)
- Saavdhaan, Regimes of Truth (New Delhi, India)
- Instruments of the State, Tse Tse Fly Middle East (London, UK)

2017

- 14 Ways to Get Rich Quick (New Art Spaces, Bolton, UK)
- Shed Studio Residency (London, UK)
- Unauthorized SFMoma Show
- Central Saint Martins Degree Show One (London, UK)
- Being in two places at the same time – Galería-de Arte-Mexicano (Mexico City)
- Multiplication of Rhythm (London, UK)
- VIDEOTECA HOMEVIDEO (Lecce, Italy)
- Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy)
- Sluice Biennial (London, UK)
- SKELF Art Feast, Art Licks Weekend
- A Thousand Words (Manchester, UK)
- Goals Envisioned, BeFantasticBengaluru (Bangalore, India)

2016

- Our Laughter Will Drown Your Sorrows (The Laundry, London, UK)
- Now You Have Authority Vol I (Mori+Stein Gallery, London, UK)
- thisisanartshow.jpg (Hornsey Town Hall Art Centre, London, UK)
- CICA Museum – Artist and Location (Gimpo, South Korea)
- Central Saint Martins Art Auction hosted by Sotheby’s, (London, UK)

2014

- PONDYArt – Moving Image (Pondicherry, India)



Vishal Kumaraswamy
ವಿಶಾಲ್ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ

Artist, Curator, Community Worker

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Vishal Kumaraswamy is an artist-curator from Bengaluru, India working across text, film, sound, performance and computational arts. As an artist he employs experimental technologies to create media-based works that address critical concerns around Caste, Race and Technology. He has an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London and his works have been shown at The Venice Biennale’s Research Pavilion, CCS Bard College, Contemporary Calgary, The Royal College of Art, SITE Gallery Sheffield, HKW Berlin and the Rencontres d'Arles 2023. In 2024, his works were included in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. 

Vishal has been in residence with the US Consulate General Mumbai, Contemporary Calgary in Alberta, SAVAC Toronto, Vital Capacities videoclub UK, Onassis AiR and The Singapore Art Museum. He is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts Transmitter Delhi X Darwin Grant, the Warehouse421 Artistic Research Grant and was recently a 2022-2024 Research Associate at the CCA Derry~Londonderry.

Vishal’s independent curatorial practice is focused on developing anti-caste curatorial frameworks that foreground a range of subaltern practices. He was the inaugural guest curator at Arts House, a City of Melbourne in 2023 & 2024 for which he was nominated for the Creative Australia Asia Pacific Awards in Innovation. He has previously presented projects at 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art Sydney, Wrong Biennale & Sluice Biennial. Vishal is a 2024 ICI curatorial intensive participant and a 2023 Liverpool Biennial & British Council Curator’s week delegate. He is a 4th of Now You Have Authority, a collaborative practice through which he has curated exhibitions, residencies, and delivered workshops at the Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange Program and Tanzfest Aarau. He is a 3rd of Indefinite Leave to Remain, a study-friendship along with artists, writers and curators Moad Musbahi and Virgil B/G Taylor. 



Education
- PhD, DXARTS, University of Washington (2024-2028)
- Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan (Online, Independent Study, 2021)
- M.A. Photography, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2017)
- Bachelor of Commerce, Bangalore University (2009)



Fellowships - Curatorial Intensive, Indonesia 2024, Independent Curators International
- Tailor Made Fellowship, Onassis AiR, Athens 2023 2023
- Research Associate 2022 - 2024, Center for Contemporary Art, 
   Derry Londonderry, Ireland




Residencies - Singapore Art Museum, 2022-2023
- Future of Memory Residency, China Residencies, 2022
- Onassis AIR 2021, Athens, Greece
- Artist in Residence: Vital Capacities, videoclub UK, 2021
- ADA-DADA, 2021, SAVAC, Toronto, Canada
- Collider: Artist Residency, Contemporary, Calgary, Canada
- Arcs of A Circle, U.S Consulate, General, Mumbai




Commissions- Indefinite Leave to Remain, Movement Radio, Athens, 2021
- AAJA x Deptford X, 2021, UK
- Rerouting, Contemporary, Calgary, Canada, 2022
- SITE Gallery Fresh Takes, 2021, Sheffield, UK
- Platform Art Projects, UK
- Reclaiming AI Futures, Mozilla Foundation
- Empathy Loading, Furtherfield and Royal College of Art, (London, UK)




Awards- Han Nefkens Foundation South Asian, Video Art Award 2025
- Shortlisted, Creative Australia, 2025 Asia Pacific Art Awards in Innovation (Curator)
- Shortlisted, Discovery Award 2023, Louis Roederer Foundation, 
   Rencontres d’Arles (Artist)




Grants
- Liverpool Biennial & British Council Follow on Fund, 2023
- The Liverpool Biennial x British, Council Curators’ Week 2023
- Tender Absence Glocal Class, 2023
- Transmitter Darwin X Delhi, Australia Council for the Arts, 2021, 2022, 2024
- Warehouse421 Artistic Research Grant, 2021
- Tender Absence Online Performance Grant, 2020
- Artists for Artists Masterclass Microgrant, 2020            




Talks
- Curators Conversation with APRE Art House Mumbai
- ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala Artist talk with Peter Waples Crowe and Subash Thebe Limbu
- ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala Artist Talk with Elyas Alavi and Sajan Mani
- ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala Dispatches with Race Matters Anti-caste radio 
   with Elyas Alavi and Jagath Dheerasekara
- Okkoota ಒಕೂ1ಟ Artist Talk with Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Kirtika Kain 
   and Eugenia Lim
- Moderator, Holding Deadlock, AI Ancestral Immediacies, HKW Berlin
- Visions and Disappearances with Olenka Carrasco and Soumya Sankar Bose
   Rencontres d’Arles 2023 
- Circle Back, Gender at Work India
- Artist Talk at Composite, Melbourne
- Dialogs @ Future Fantastic
- SITE Salons – Vishal Kumaraswamy x Tyrone Issac Stuart
- Panelist – The Curator’s Suitcase at maxim-gorki theatre, Berlin
- Divided by Three Equals Three, Movement Radio
- Reclaiming AI Futures, Centre for Internet Studies India
- Artist Talk, Smarter Digital Realities, Goethe-Institut India
- APAM Panel Discussion Transmitter Darwin x Delhi
- AI & India, Glassroom Community Event, The Bachchao Project & Tactical Tech
- Otherly X Vishal Kumaraswamy
- In Conversation: Vishal Kumaraswamy & Zarina Muhammad (The White Pube)
- Speaker, CoLab Fellowship Jaaga, British Council, & Goethe Institut India        



Workshops- Students Biennale Workshop, Kochi Biennale Foundation, 2023
- Investigating Digital Publishing 
  (Curatorial Practices MA, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology), 2020



Publications
- The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
- Foam Magazine #66 MISSING MIRROR
- Catalogue: Awaaz: Essential Interference, CCS Bard
- Catalogue: Savdhaan – Regimes of Truth Apex Art
- Catalogue: Building Bridges, Emergent Art Space
- Curatorial Essay Catalogue: ALAM عَملَ
- Catalogue: Les Rencontres Internationales de la photographie d’Arles 2023
- Online Publication: pinch/zoom/scroll/hover for BLEED ECHO
- Online Publication: Unseen, untouchable, tactile AI
- Online Publication: Reflections from the Liverpool Biennial x British Council
- Online Publication: Critical Collective
- Online Publication: Mourning as Presence Alternative South Asia Photography Art
- Shifting the Angle of Shine, Yao Collaborative
- Online Publication: STIR Magazine Vishal Kumaraswamy looks at race & caste
- Online Publication: Bengaluru’s Rivers, VOILÀ
- Online Publication: Aesthetica Magazine
- Online Publication: Being together is not enough    



Conferences & Symposiums- 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 
   Reverberations, Seattle 2025
- South Asian Diasporic Artists Symposium, 2025, 2026
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, ICCV 2021
- NeurIPS Conference Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 2020


Teaching
- Video Art Foundations, DXARTS, University of Washington 
   (Autumn 2025, Winter 2026)
- Associate Lecturer, University of the Underground 2022
- Knowledge Partner - Material Technologies, The Digital Everyday 2022-2024        



Performances- Transmitter, Darwin Festival, 2022, Australia
- Yaava Kathe, Remote Closeness, 2021
- Kathe, Tender Absence, 2020



Last Updated 24.10.31