Vishal Kumaraswamy is artist-curator from Bengaluru, India working across text, film, sound, performance and computational arts. He has an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London and his works have been shown at The Venice Biennale’s Research Pavilion, Hessel Museum Bard College, Contemporary Calgary, The Royal College of Art, SITE Gallery Sheffield, HKW Berlin and the Rencontres d'Arles 2023. Vishal’s work has recently been published in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. Vishal has been in residence with the US Consulate General Mumbai, Contemporary Calgary in Alberta, SAVAC Toronto, Vital Capacities videoclub UK, Onassis AiR and The Singapore Art Museum. He is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts Transmitter Delhi X Darwin Grant, the Warehouse421 Artistic Research Grant and was a 2022-2024 Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry.
Vishal’s curatorial practice is rooted within an anti-caste framework and is engaged in developing long term support infrastructures. He was the inaugural guest curator at Arts House, City of Melbourne for 2023 & 2024 for which he was shortlisted for the Creative Australia Asia Pacific Awards in Innovation, a British Council curatorial delegate at the 2023 Liverpool Biennial & an Independent Curatorial Intensive participant in 2024. Vishal has previously presented projects with the Wrong Biennale & Sluice Biennial and is a 4 th of Now You Have Authority, a collaborative practice through which he has curated exhibitions, residencies, and delivered workshops at the Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange Program and Tanzfest Aarau. He is a 3 rd of Indefinite Leave to Remain, a study-friendship along with artists, writers and curators Moad Musbahi and Virgil B/G Taylor.