Anu Kumar (she/her) is a photographic artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Working primarily with medium format photography, she interrogates themes of displacement and the diaspora, using her practice as a gateway to understanding her identity as a woman born in India and raised in Australia. Through her work, Kumar strives to archive the quotidian expressions of everyday life as an examination of self, family and belonging. Her photography has been featured in the New York Times and Vogue, and exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (2022), and The National Gallery of Victoria (2023) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (2024).
Kumar released her first monograph “Ghar” with Perimeter Editions, which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo- Aperture First Photobook award (2023), and winner of the Australian & New Zealand Photobook awards (2024).
Contact details:
info@anukumar.com.au
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Exhibition
Victoria & Albert Museum, London - New Photobooks From Australia - late May to November 2024
National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne Now, March 2023 – 20 August 2023
Powerhouse Museum - Charkha and Kargha. 13 August 2022 – 15 January 2023
Centre for Contemporary Photography - We, Us, Them. February 18 – 17 April, 2022
Hillvale Gallery - Nagar, 12 - 26 February 2023
PHOTO 2022 (Commission) - State Library of Victoria Remnants of Ritual. 29 April – 22 May 2022
Belfast Exposed Photography (Belfast) Exhibiting body of work, Ghar, March 2022
Publication
Photobook “Ghar”, Perimeter Editions, October 2022
NEITHER, Loose Joints , curated by Bharat Sikka 2023
PIX - Personal Paradigms
Prize & Awards
WINNER: Australian & New Zealand Photobook award 2024
SHORTLIST: Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook award 2023
Acquisition
Powerhouse Museum: 12 Photographic works
State Library of Victoria : Ghar Photobook
NYU Library: Ghar Photobook, 2023
Commission
Powerhouse Museum, Libaas. Photos of the Indian/ Australian diaspora within NSW and VIC.20 October 2022 - 15 January 2023
PHOTO 2022 - Remnants of Ritual, State Library of Victoria. 29 April - 22 May