Vishal Kumaraswamy

Vishal Kumaraswamy is a Bangalore, India based artist-curator working across text, film, sound, performance and computational arts. Drawing from his Aboriginal Dalit (untouchable caste) heritage, Vishal employs experimental technologies to create media-based works addressing critical concerns around Caste, Race and Technology. He has an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London and his works have been shown at The Venice Biennale’s Research Pavilion, CCS Bard College, Contemporary Calgary, The Royal College of Art, SITE Gallery Sheffield, HKW Berlin and the Rencontres d'Arles 2023. 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 is a 2022-2024 Research Associate at the CCA Derry~Londonderry.

Vishal’s independent curatorial practice thinks through anti-caste curatorial models that foreground a range of subaltern artistic practices and is the inaugural guest curator at Arts House, City of Melbourne for 2023 & 2024. He has previously curated projects with the Wrong Biennale & Sluice Biennial and is the founder of the artist collective; 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.