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Anni Kumari

Visiting Faculty of Visual Arts, Ashoka University

MFA, Delhi University

Anni Kumari is a visual practitioner, researcher and art educator.

She creates minute number plottings, detailed observational drawings, immersive monochromatic paintings and large-scale collages. Her works often include mathematical patterns, astronomical charts, Venn diagrams, botanical studies, cartographical and navigational maps as a way of questioning the boundaries between art/art works and functional data vis-à-vis aesthetics and intelligence .

There is an intuitive amalgamation of techniques and processes that are rooted in craft and ritualistic traditions as well as contemporary technologies. By playing around with repetitive, intertwined patterns and perspective , she creates optical illusions and a sense of wonder.

She has had four solo shows and her works have been part of several curated group shows in India.

  • Kumari, Anni.(2018,July 03), “Significance of Kolam in Tamil Culture.” Sahapedia.org, Sahapedia, https://www.sahapedia.org/significance-of-kolam-tamil-culture
  • Kumari, Anni. (2015, December 05) ‘Lateral Inversion: Male Feminities –Female Masculinities’,  Sappho for Equality, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  • http://sanhati.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/09/Final_Schedule_NQC-2015.pdf
  • Sen, S. (2023, September 18). Anni Kumari combines maths and art in her latest exhibits. https://www.indulgexpress.com/culture/art/2023/sep/18/anni-kumari-combines-maths-and-art-in-her-latest-exhibits-53332.html
  • Rathod, A., & Ankita.Rathod. (2023, September 20). Anni Kumari’s ‘Spontaneous Order’: Where Art Meets Mathematics. Architecture + Design. https://www.architectureplusdesign.in/lifestyle/art-culture/anni-kumaris-spontaneous-order-where-art-meets-mathematics/
  • Online, I. (2023, September 14). Exhibition explores constantly changing nature of relationships using mathematical concepts. The Indian Express. https://indianexpress.com/photos/lifestyle-gallery/exhibition-anni-kumari-relationships-mathematical-concepts-geometry-8921121/
  • The mind of a mathematician and the instinct of an artist! (n.d.). https://mattersofart.blogspot.com/2023/09/spontaneous-order-by-anni-kumari-tao.html
  • YourStory | anni kumari. (n.d.). YourStory.com. https://yourstory.com/tag/anni-kumari
  • Chattopadhyay, P. (2019, August 23). Artists Balaji Ponna and Anni Kumari signal humanity’s impending doom in their exhibition ‘Mirrored Questions.’ The Indian Express. https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/what-humans-do-art-exhibition-delhi-5928540/

Solo:

  • 2023- Spontaneous Order: An Unintended Coordination of Intentional Action, curated by Wendy Amanda Coutinho, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • 2023-Alingan: Intimate Embrace, curated by Dr Alka Pande, India Art Fair, Delhi
  • 2022-Codes of a Future, Traces of the Ancient, curated by Sanjana Shah, Treasure Art Gallery, Delhi
  • 2021-Algorhythms, curated by Chhavi Jain, Anant Art & Apparao Galleries, Delhi

 

Group:

  • 2021-All that is life, curated by Saloni Doshi, Space 118, Mumbai
  • 2021- Life is better in Black & White, curated by Pranamita Borghain, Art Positive, Delhi
  • 2021-Spiralling into the Absurd, curated by Chhavi Jain, Anant Art, Delhi
  • 2021-Blurring Boundaries, 079 Stories, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
  • 2020-A place to pour all of us, site-specific installation, ‘Studio’ by India Art Fair, DLF Avenue & Art District XIII, Delhi
  • 2020-Shifting Positions, India Art Fair, Delhi
  • 2019-Mirrored Questions with Balaji Ponna, Art District XIII, Delhi
  • 2017-Again & yet again, curated by Shruti Ramlingaiah, OED gallery, Kochi, Kerala
  • 2017-Some things change with Jasone Miranda Bilbao, India International Centre, Delhi
  • 2016-ABOUTTURN: Is the female point of view essentially feminist, Alliance Francaise, Gurugram, Haryana

Awards

  • 2017: Women Artist Award, Prafulla Dhanukar Foundation, Maharashtra
  • 2012: AIFACS Award in the Drawing category, Delhi
  • 2012: Buddy Bear (Indo-German Friendship Mascot) Design Competition, German Embassy
  • 2009: Canopy International Art Award, Ashoka Trust
  • 1999: President’s Award of the Bharat Scouts and Guides
  • 1998: United Nations Exhibitions Programme, Atlanta, USA

Grants & Fellowships

  • 2017-18: Sahapedia-UNESCO project fellowship
  • 2017: Shortlisted for Asia Art Archive and Inlaks Artist research grant
  • 2017: Artist teaching fellowship, Nari Gunjan, Patna in collaboration with Artreach India, Delhi
  • 2015: Artist teaching fellowship, Artreach India, Delhi
  • 2011: Junior Research Fellowship, Ministry Of Culture, Govt. of India and UGC
  • 2013: National Artist Scholarship, Lalit Kala Akademi
  • 2011: Merit Scholarship, HRD, College of Art
  • 2008: Gurukul Scholarship, Spic Macay foundation

Art Camps/Artist Residencies/Workshops

  • 2017: National Women Painter’s Camp, Kerala Lalith Kala Akademi, Kerala
  • 2017: National Artist Camp, Word School of Design, Haryana
  • 2016: Piramal Art Residency, Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • 2015: Art for Change International Artist Residency, Delhi
  • 2015: Sowing seeds International Artist Village Residency at Chelak Village, Jaisalmer by Kaman Art Foundation for a public art project using local materials
  • 2015: National Artist Camp, ITM SAAD University, Baroda, Gujarat
  • 2014: National Artist Workshop, Lalit Kala Akademi, Garhi, New Delhi
  • 2013: Lines in Our Minds –Exploring Gender & Interpersonal Relationships, Artist Residency,        Reflection Art Gallery & Studio, Delhi
  • 2012: Basurama, The B face of the city, Spanish Cultural Centre, Instituto Cervantes; concluding with an art intervention at Connaught Place, Delhi
  • 2010: National Students Art Camp, Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore, Karnataka
  • 2008: Painting workshop, National Convention of Spic Macay, Kohima, Nagaland
  • 2008: Clay Modelling Workshop under the guidance of K.S. Radha Krishnan
  • VA-2016-1 – Figure Drawing as Remembering and Reimagining
  • VA-3025-1 – Drawing as Extended Play
  • VA-106-1 – Monotype Printmaking
  • VA-1040-1 – Contemporary drawing
  • VA-017-1 – Experiential Drawing
  • VA-0032-1 – Relational Drawing
  • CVA-0057-1 – The Human Figure in Monotype Printmaking
  • CVA-0070-1 – Botanical Art
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