CV

Vishal Kumaraswamy

 

Bangalore, India

Education

 

2015-2017 Master of Arts in Photography, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London

 

2006-2009 Bachelor of Commerce, Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore University

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Experience

 

2012-2018 Photographer, Filmmaker and Visual Artist 

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2009-2012 Operations Analyst, Goldman Sachs

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Exhibitions

 

2019

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• Streams and Channels, Center for the Digital Arts (Peekskill, USA)

• Savdhaan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India)

• Artists Unite, Red Fort (Delhi, India)

• Exist, Walkin Studios (Bangalore, India)

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2018

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• 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)

• Powercut, Cox Town (Bangalore, India)

• WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Canada)

• Regimes of Truth (New Delhi, India)

• Instruments of the State, Tse Tse Fly Middle East (London, UK)

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2017

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• 14 Ways To Get Rich Quick (New Art Spaces, Bolton, UK)

• Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 (Shortlisted)

• Shed Studio Residency (London, UK)

• Projected Histories, Fringe Arts Bath (Bath, 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, Mexico)

• Multiplication of Rhythm (London, UK)

• VIDEOTECA HOMEVIDEO (Lecce, Italy)

• GradCAM at The Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy)

• Sluice Biennial (London, UK)

• SKELF Art Feast, Art Licks Weekend

• A Thousand Words (Manchester, UK)

• Art and Activism, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (Mumbai, India)

• Goals Envisioned, BeFantasticBengaluru (Bangalore, India)​

2016

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• Our Laughter Will Drown Your Sorrows (The Laundry, London, UK)

• Now You Have Authority Vol I (Mori+Stein Gallery, The Flying Dutchman, 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, Lethaby Gallery (London, UK)

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2015

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• Blindboys.org Blowup (Focus Festival, Mumbai, India)

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2014

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• PONDYArt – Moving Image (Pondicherry, India)

Workshops

 

2017

 

• Post Student Art School (Tate Exchange)

• Multiplication of Rhythm

 

 

Producer and Curator

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• NYHA Volume I

• NYHA Volume II

• The Shed Studio Residency

• Multiplication of Rhythm

• “Lacunae”

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Residencies

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• Arcs of A Circle Artist Residency in association with the U.S Consulate General, Mumbai (Dec 2017, Mumbai, India)

• Digital Artist in Residence, Peripheral Forms (April 2018)

• Shortlisted for Kooshk Artist Residency Award

• Shortlisted for the Delfina Foundation India Residency

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