Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Explained

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (born 1964) is a British photographer. Her work has been exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Harvard Art Museums; Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China; Tang Museum, New York; and The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Matthew is a professor of art (photography) in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Art and Art History.^[1]

Major works and exhibitions

• The Unremembered: Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of World War I
• Open Wound: Stories of Partition
• To Majority Minority
• An Indian From India
• ReGeneration
• Memories of India
• Fabricated Memories
• Bollywood Satirized
• The Virtual Immigrant^[2]

Awards

• 2003: John Gutmann Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation.^[3]
• 2007: MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Arts.^{[4] [5]}
• 2009: University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities Visiting Scholar Grant for the visit of Hasan Elahi, Assistant Professor at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University.^[6]
• 2011: University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship for her project “Expanding Re-Generations.”
• 2012: Fulbright Fellowship.^[7]
• 2010: Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship.^[8]
• American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts fellowship.^[9]
• Artist in residence, Yaddo Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY and the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.^[10]
• 2013: Society of Photographic Educators (SPE) Future Focus Project support grant.^[11]
• 2013: University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant for her project “Re-Generations-An Open Wound.”
• 2015: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Merit Award in New Genres.^[12]
• 2015–2017: Recipient of the Silvia Chandley Professorship in Nonviolence and Peace

Selected exhibitions

Solo:

• Generations, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada (2015).^[13]
• The Virtual Immigrant, Stockton College, Galloway, NJ (2009).^[14]
• The Virtual Immigrant, Tasveer Gallery, Bangalore, India (2009).^[15]
• The Virtual Immigrant, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, Mumbai, India (2011).^[15]
• The Virtual Immigrant, Tasveer Gallery, New Delhi, India (2011).^[15]
• Re-Generations, Gallery Z20, Rome, Italy (2011).^[16]
• Open Wound, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (2014).^[17]
• Between Cultures, Lycoming College, PA (2014).^[18]
• Bollywood Satirized, Watson Center, Brown University, Providence RI (2014).^[19]
• Memória, OÁ Galeria - Arte Contemporânea, Vittoria, Brazil (2014).^[20]

Group:

• 37 Still Lives, Design Gallery, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India (2013).^[21]
• 40 Artists / 40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Light Work, Syracuse, Lubin House, NYC (2013).^[22]
• A Photograph Is Not An Opinion, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2013).^[23]
• For Which It Stands, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY (2013).^[24]
• Grace, Delhi Photo Festival 2013, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India (2013).^[25]
• Convergence: Contemporary Art from India and the Diaspora, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (2013).^[26]
• Self, Model, and Self as Other, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (2013).^[27]
• The First 15: Photography from the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2013).^[10]
• Home Truths: Motherhood, Photography and Loss, Foundling Museum, London, England (2013).^[28]
• The Other and Me, Sharjah Art Museum, Sarjah, UAE (2014).^[29]
• Conversation XVII: Photographic Memory, Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, KS (2014).^[30]
• Forty Years of Blue Sky, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (2014).^[31]
• Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (2015).^[32]
• Beyond Bollywood Indian-Americans Shape the Nation, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC (2015).^[33]
• Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2015).^[34]
• Re Present: Photography from South Asia, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (2018).^[35]

External links

• Light Work
• Luminus-Lint Photography: History, Evolution, and Analysis
• Piezography Editions In the Spotlight
• Society for Photographic Education
• Z2O Galleria

Notes and References

1. Web site: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew . 29 August 2021.
2. Web site: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew home page . 29 August 2021.
3. http://www.johngutmann.org/recipients.html "John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Recipients." John Gutmann. Web. 13 Jan 2015.
4. http://www.annumatthew.com/articles/MacColl%20Johnson%20copy.pdf Rourke, Bryan. "Three RI Artists Win Coveted MacColl Johnson Fellowships." The Providence Journal 9 Sept 2007.
5. http://www.rifoundation.org/InsidetheFoundation/OurBlog/TabId/106/PostId/184/the-maccoll-johnson-fellowships-celebrating-ten-years.aspx Grosch, Connie. "The MacColl Johnson Fellowships: Celebrating Ten Years
6. Web site: Recent Grant and Fellowship Awards . Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) . 19 May 2015 .
7. http://www.cies.org/grantee/annu-matthew "Annu Matthew." Fulbright Scholar Program. n.d. Web 26 Jan 2015.
8. http://www.arts.ri.gov/individuals/fellowships10.php "Fellowships for 2010." State of Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Web. 13 Jan 2015.
9. http://www.indiastudies.org/aiis-performing-arts-fellows-rock/ "AIIS Performing Arts Fellows Rock!" American Institute of Indian Studies. Web. 13 Jan 2015.
10. Web site: Events – Yaddo. yaddo.org. 2021-08-29. 2016-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20160809182836/http://yaddo.org/yaddo/news.shtml?story_id=%7BD0ED9EC3-E20A-426B-93AF-C4588648E50F%7D. dead.
11. http://lenscratch.com/2013/09/annu-palakunnathu-matthew/ Smithson, Aline. "Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: SPE Future Focus Project Support Grant Winner." Lenscratch. 23 Sept. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2015.
12. Web site: Fellowships for FY2015 . Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)/. 29 May 2015.
13. http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/exhibitions/generations-annu-palakunnathu-matthew "Generations." Royal Ontario Museum
14. Web site: "Press Release" Stockton College Art Gallery.
15. Web site: Tasveer Gallery - Exhibitions Annu Palakunnathu Matthew The Virtual Immigrant. www.tasveerarts.com.
16. Web site: Re-Generations. ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW solo show. www.celesteprize.com - Celeste Network -. Italy. www.celesteprize.com.
17. Web site: News – URI Today. www.uri.edu.
18. Web site: Lycoming College Art Department to exhibit 'Between Cultures'. Lycoming College.
19. Web site: Art at Watson Presents Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Bollywood Satirized - Watson Institute. watson.brown.edu.
20. Web site: OA galeria. 2015-07-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125721/http://www.oagaleria.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/convite-annu.jpg. 2016-03-04. dead.
21. Web site: Tasveer Gallery - Group Shows 37 Indian Still Lifes About The Show. www.tasveerarts.com.
22. Web site: 40 Artists / 40 Years:
    Selections from the Light Work Collection. 6 June 2013.
23. Web site: FOCUS Insights // A Photograph is not an Opinion // Curated by Sunil Gupta // Jehangir Art Gallery // FOCUS Festival Mumbai 2013. FOCUS Festival. Mumbai. 21 May 2013. Vimeo.
24. Web site: FOR WHICH IT STANDS • The Lodge Gallery. 19 July 2013.
25. Web site: sepia EYE: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew in Grace. sepiaeye.com. 2015-07-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20160809180254/http://sepiaeye.com/Annu-Palakunnathu-Matthew-in-Grace. 2016-08-09. dead.
26. Web site: Convergence: Contemporary Art from India and the Diaspora - The William Benton Museum of Art. 22 October 2013.
27. Web site: "Self, Model, and Self as Other" MFAH. 2015-07-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20160630155548/https://www.mfah.org/calendar/self-model-and-self-other/8351/#. 2016-06-30. dead.
28. Web site: Home Truths - The Photographers' Gallery. 2015-07-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20150726172321/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/photography-motherhood-and-identity. 2015-07-26. dead.
29. Web site: sepia EYE: Bhalla and Matthew in Sharjah Art Museum's The Other and Me. sepiaeye.com. 2015-07-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305204559/http://sepiaeye.com/Bhalla_Matthew-TheOtherandMe-Sharjah. 2016-03-05. dead.
30. Web site: Conversation XVII: Photographic Memory - Spencer Museum of Art. www.spencerart.ku.edu.
31. Web site: Blue Sky.
32. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/16/postdate-after-midnight-contemporary-indian-art_n_6843060.html "The Greatest Indian Art Show of the Spring is Happening in America
33. Web site: Beyond Bollywood - Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Beyond Bollywood.
34. http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=ulrichmuseum&p=/art/futureexhibitions "Upcoming Exhibitions" Ulrich Museum of Art
35. Web site: Re Present: Photography from South Asia. Gallery. Kamloops Art. Kamloops Art Gallery. en. 2019-03-01.