An Indian from India by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s recent exhibitions include Sepia International, New York City, the RISD Museum, Newark Art Museum, 2009 Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China, Tang Museum and the Smithsonian Institute Museum of National History.

Among the list of grants recently supporting Matthew‘s work include a 2012 Fulbright fellowship, recipient of the inaugural SPE Future Focus Project support grant (2013,) the John Gutmann fellowship, MacColl Johnson fellowship, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts fellowship and the American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts fellowship. She was recently an artist in residence at the Yaddo Colony and the MacDowell Colony. Her work can be found in the collection of the George Eastman House, Fogg Museum at Harvard, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Center for Creative Photography and the RISD Museum among others.

Matthew’s work is included in the book BLINK from Phaidon, that according to the publisher celebrates the quality and vision of today's 100 most exciting international contemporary photographers and Self-Portraits and Home Truths: Motherhood, Photography and Loss by Susan Bright and The Digital Eye by Sylvia Wolf.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is Professor of Art (Photography) and Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Rhode Island and is represented by SepiaEYE, New York City & Tasveer Gallery, India.