CV

Education
MFA in Art+Science, 2009, Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
MFA in Experimental Animation and Filmmaking, 2006-¬ 2009, California Institute of the Arts
BFA in Painting, 2003- 2004, Elam School of Arts, Auckland University, New Zealand
BFA in Painting, 2000- 2003, MSU Fine Arts, Baroda, India

Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2024
S+T+ARTS 4 Water II Residency with TBA21
Group Exhibition: Paradigm to Paradigm, into the Biomic Time, States of Fragility, Proximity Music by iii and Rewire Festival, West den Hague
Screening: Birth of Brainfly + Tentacles of Dimension, Goa Open Arts

2023
Exhibition and Honorary Mention Artificial Intelligence and Life Art @ Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
Solo: Paradigm to Paradigm, into the Biomic Time, Felix Frachon Gallery, Brussels
Sound Workshop: Sounding Environmental Stewardship: A Collaborative and Creative Approach to Addressing Urban Environmental Issues, UDK, Berlin
Artist Talk: Bath Spa University, UK
Composition Performance: Paradigm to Paradigm, into the Biomic Time, Maerz Festival, Berlin
Artist Talk, UDK, Berlin
Artist Talk, CRC1512, Freie Universität, Berlin
Solo: Paradigm to Paradigm, into the Biomic Time, Daad Gallerie, Berlin

2022
Speaker @Time to Listen: Sustainability in Contemporary Music @Akedemie der Kunst, Berlin
Artist Talk @Daad Gallerie, Water Bodies with Nandita Kumar, Patricia Belli, Paula Gaitan, Berlin
Speaker @ Soundings – Assemblies of Listenings and Voices Across the Souths, Syposium @Akedemie der Kunst, Berlin
Fellow 2022-2023: The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program/ Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD
Mardin Biennial 5.0: The Promise of Grass/ Cimenin Vaadi , curated by Adwait SinghSingh | 20th May
NFT drops + Exhibition ‘Techné Disruptors: Global South NFT Collection ’, Indian Art Fair, Conceived by Engendered, curated by Myna Mukherjee

2021
un{stacked} : articulations of the algorithmic condition, Khoj, New Delhi
Digital Futures Grant @ Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi
Awesome without Borders Grant, The Harnisch Foundation, New York
Board of Trustees, Television for the Environment (t/ve); UK-registered charity
The Listening Biennial, Berlin/Honk-Kong/Quebec/Madrid/Kolkota/ Nagaland/Buenos Aires/ Taipei/Budhapest/Istanbul
Group Show: Retelling @ Sunapranta; Goa Open Catalyst Grant + Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
Work presented: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting
Work Presented: LASER Talks at Tempe; ASU Leonardo Imagination Fellowship

2020
UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit, Hosted by ASU-Leonardo Imagination Fellows
Luxembourg Art Week | Felix Frachon Gallery
ASU-Leonardo Imagination Fellowship: a virtual program to explore experimental art-science innovation practices
Ars Electronica.ART Global Gallery, Linz, Austria
Anniversary Exhibition: Chapter 4 | Felix Frachon Gallery; Brussels
Goa Open Arts: The Catalyst New Media Grant in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
Webinar: A Tale of Monsoons curated by Premjish Achari in association with Kala Chaupal Trust
Online Exhibition: “ Collab” curated by Jesal Thacker, Sakshi Gallery
Online Exhibition: El Balcón curated by Ivan Buenader | Rubin Art Center for the Visual Arts | University of Texas El Paso
Tennyson Street moving image art project curated by Reuben David; New Zealand
Goa open Arts

2019
Cosmopolis #2 Rethinking the Human, Pompidou, Paris; Ongoing till Dec23
Making Space: Celebrating 10 Years Of Space118 Residency, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2018
Group Show: Delirium/Equilibrium, curated by Roobina Karode | KNMA Museum, Delhi
Experimental animation and film workshop, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Brussels Art Fair
Received Indian Foundation of Arts Grant; Bangalore

2017
Shortlisted: The Lumen Prize, UK
Birth of Brainfly and Tentacels of Dimensions, Pataka Museum, New Zealand
Hello World! Ars17; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma; Helsinki (till 2018)
Group Show: Felix Frachon Gallery-“Season one”, Brussels
Screening of Birth of Brainfly and Tentacles of Dimensions; HH Art Spaces, Goa

2016
Maison populaire, Montreuil, France
Speaker: Museum of Goa
Online Exhibition and project commission: Unfold #4 curated by Alessandro Ludovico and Sara Giannini
Public Art Workshop, Art in Transit, Srishti, Bangalore
Art Dubai, Lakeeren Gallery
Solo show @ Felix Frachon Gallery “Quintessential Machine”; Brussels
Indian Art Fair, Lakeeren Gallery

2015
Exo-Evolution curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art
Exo-Evolution Talk curated by Phillip Ziegler
Tales & Fables from India & Japan, NID | Japan Foundation, IN | Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan
Shortlisted for the Fulbright Art Residency to the US (last 4 candidates); New Zealand
Selected as a finalist for 24th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2015, New Zealand
Speaker: Public2015, ”Public Art in Action”; Perth
Form Public Art Initiative curated by Sharmila Wood, Perth
Group Show curated by Eveline Suter, Kunsthaus Langenthal(April), Switzerland
Group Show: “Constructs Constructions” curated by Roobina Karode, KNMA Museum, Delhi
Working Space: Around Memory and Perception: curated by Roobina Karode, KNMA Museum, Delhi
Special Projects curated by Girish Shahane, Indian Art Fair, Delhi
Group Show: History is, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai

2014
Pataka Art Museum: Travelling show of the Wallace Art Award
Private Choice: Curator Nadia Cadet, Paris
Selected as a finalist for 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards 2014, New Zealand
Nominated for NTAA(New Technology Art Award), exhibition Biennial Update_5, Belgium
Jeu du Paume: “Erreur d’impression” curated by Alessandro Ludovico; Paris, France
Solo Exhibition: LET THE BRAINFLY, Gallery Lakeereen, Mumbai
Dhaka Art Summit: “Citizens of Time” curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki; Delhi,India
Indian Art Fair:hEliOpHiLic obSeRVatOry; Lakeeren Gallery, Delhi
Indian Art Fair:Public Sound Art Project-”Listen Up!”curated by Diana Betancourt and Tim Goosens; Delhi

2013
International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA presented by ANANT); Sydney
Auckland Art Fair, Whitespace Contemporary Art Gallery; Auckland, NZ
India Design Forum: OTLO curated by architect Ashiesh Shah and Tejas Mangeshkar; Mumbai
Indian Art Fair: Polymorphic HumanScape, Lakeeren Gallery; Delhi
Group Show: Palette Art Gallery:Spell of Spill Utopia of Ecology, Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki;Delhi

2012
Group Show: Cardinal Meridians: New Geometries of the Infinite, Gallery Lakeereen, Mumbai
Group Show: Mumbai Gallery Weekend : Bandra Taj Lands End, Mumbai
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Community Art Project(Dharavi Slums)- GHAR PE:Concept development and Installation, Mumbai
Indian Art Fair: ELEMENT: EARTH, Latitude 28, Delhi
Indian Art Fair: Tentacles of Dimension, video lounge, Delhi

2011
Enchanted Forest Installation: Launch of HERMES, Hermes Gallery, Mumbai
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Screening: Birth of Brainfly ,The Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse
Indian Art Fair: Screening Birth of BrainFly, Video Lounge, Delhi
Group Show-The PILL curated by Avni Doshi, Latitude 28, Delhi

2010
Solo Exhibition: LET THE BRAINFLY, Latitude 28, Delhi
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Sydney Underground Festival, Australia
Screening: 42nd New Zealand International Film Festival
Group Show: Living Room curated by Pontus Kyander, NZ (video projections in CBD (Auckland city)
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, RedCat, LA

2009
Curation: Film experimental film section, Festival SPIEL09; Austria
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, International Film Festival Hannover
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Stuttgart Animation Film Festival

2008
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Tricky Women Film Festival, Austria
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Cinema Mundo – II Internacional Film festival, Brazil
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Rome Film Festival
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, 7th Brisbane International Animation Festival
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, 40th New Zealand International Film Festival
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,LA
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Machine Project, Image & Sound from the South Asian Diaspora, LA
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Delhi, India
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, LACMA conjoint with Salvador Dali Show, LA

2006-2003
Community Art Project: “Gali Art”; India. A Street Art project, using art developed by village and slum children in Hauz Khas Village, Delhi to make direct changes in the community; Sponsor: Khoj International Artist Org, Delhi Art Gallery,

Commendations
Nominated for NTAA(New Technology Art Award), exhibition Update_5(nov), Belgium, 2014
Artist Talk: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Part of ISEA(Sydney), 2013
Artist Talk: TEDx NSIT, India, 2012
Invited to do an Installation for the Launch of HERMES, 2011
Included in APT(Artist Pension Trust), 2011
Broadcast on TVS – Sydney’s, Tentacles of Dimension, 2009
Included on the Best of Sydney Underground DVD, 2009
Broadcast on TVS – Sydney’s , Birth of Brainfly, 2008
Best Original Music, Cinema Mundo, BR, 2008
Awarded Jules Engle Scholarship, LA, 2007

Residencies
Art Omi International Artist Residency, New York, 2013
Daad Artist in Berlin Program 2022-23

Art Collection
Friends of KIASMA, Helsinki
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)
Will Ramsay(Affordable Art Fair)
Saffron Art(private collection)
Works held in private collections in Paris, Brussels, Auckland, San Francisco, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi

Selected Press and Reviews

Neural Magazine (73) |- Negotiating Values, From Paradigm to Paradigm, Into the Biominc Time, 2024
Interview: Digiscore
Book: Art and Climate Change by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Cover of Fieldnotes, Berlin
Review for the solo “Paradigm to Paradigm,into the Biomic Time” by Tagesspiegel
The Travel Show: BBC NEWS, Sept 24th, covering Osmoscape @ Mardin Biennale
OutlookIndia | Righting Misnomers: Parallel Universes Of Truth That Counter Big Lies Of Modern Society by Ornella D’souza,
OutlookIndia | Parallel Universe of Truth: USING ART TO DEMOCRATISE ENVIRONMENT DATA by Ornella D’souza,
Blurring the Lines Between Art and Technology by Anjani Chadha
Vogue interview July 2020 | It Takes a Village by Megha Mahindru
[PUBLIC ART] | Sustainable Art: Interspace of Material and Nature by Jaeyeon Chung (Korean Magazine)
Contemporary HUM | Situated practices: Lisa Reihana and Nandita Kumar in Cosmopolis #2
Business Standard: Exhibition explores themes of equilibrium in world of tech frenzy
Apollo Magazine: Art Brussels celebrates its 50th anniversary by looking to the future by Lucy Scovell
Interview Magazine: 10 highlights you need to see at Art BrusselsBy Jane Gayduk
Art Illustrated: Touch and Go by Rahul Kumar
Book: Comment bâtir un univers qui ne s’effondre pas deux jours plus tard: by Marie Koch and Vladimir Demoule
Mu intheCity: Les mondes de Nandita Kumar: Review of solo show in Felix Frachon Gallery, Brussels
GQ India: Connect by Nidhi Gupta
Eflux: ZKM Exo-Evolution
Open Magazine: Material Metafors by Hemant Sareen
Kultur Kompakt: Radio SRF Interview in Switzerland
Euro News: India Art Fair in New Delhi draws art-hungry middle class
Business Standard: Mumbai artist Nandita Kumar uses biomimicry to create artworks
Hindustan Times by Asad Ali: Meet artists whose work invited a third glance at India Art Fair
Neural Magazine: Artist interview
Art NewZealand: Wallace Art awards
Harper’s Bazaar Hotlist: Urban Saga
Yishu:Journal for Contemporary Chinese Art: Ghar Pe/At Home in the Margins of Contemporary Art by Atreyee Gupta
DailyMail Uk: A stuffed deer, trees made of tyres, and an army made of light bulbs: India Art Fair brings together artists with big visions
Art Radar: South Asia in focus: 5 curated shows at Dhaka Art Summit 2014
Dhaka Tribune: Beyond the Canvas by Sal Imam
ART Practical: From New Delhi: Indian Art Fair review by John Zarobell
The Wall Street Journal: “The India Art Fair for Novices” by Shefali Anand
Australian Art Collector by Alexandra Djurichkovic
Real Time: Australia critical guide to Contemporary Art Practices: ISEA 2013
Take on ART: A survey of medium in Contemporary Sculpture by Veerangana Solanki
Vogue: Vibe of the Month “New Directions” by Divya Menon
EN MODE: Mauritians Abroad, Portrait: Nandita Kumar
Time Out: The Screening Room, Art critic Gayatri Sinha, tells Time Out why we should keep watching Indian video art
Indian Express: Infinite Ideas, Review for Cardinal Meridians: New Geometries of the Infinite by Zaira Arslan
Asian Art Archive: “On Territoriality, Temporality, and the Politics of Place” by Atreyee Gupta
TimeOut Mumbai: “Playing House” by Prerna Makhija
Mumbai Mirror: “Dharavi’s home truths” by Reema Gehi
Welcome Trust: Art and health in the slums: exploring the health concerns of Mumbai’s poorest communities
Art Tribune: Delhi Updates: primi bilanci dell’India Art Fair, che chiude a 150mila visitatori. by Giulia Ambrogi
Take on Art: The Pill review by Meera Menzes
Varta Magazine: The Pill review by Meera Menezes
Artsome: Museum without Walls or Walls without Museums? by Devki Modi
ARTSlant: Storyboarding the Mind: A Truly Trippy Immersion by Deepika Sorabjee
Mumbai Boss: Artist Nandita Kumar Explains Her Trippy New Show At Lakeeren Gallery
Asian Age: Review for Solo-Let the BRAINFLY; “It’s All in your Head” by Dr Seema Bawa
Time Out Delhi: Cerebral Celebration by Shweta Upadhyay
Indian Express: Making a Mark by Georgina Maddox
Unboxed Writers: Medium Matters by Poonam Goel
The Daily Pioneer: Experiment is the Keyword
Times of India: “Beyond Anish” by Amitava Sanyal
The Lumiere Reader: Homegrown: Quirky Stories by Jacob Powel