Artist Statement
My work continually draws on my experience and consequences of having living between cultures as I was born in England, grew up in India and now live in the USA. The work draws on this unique experience and also explores assimilation and finding a place for myself in the United States as a hyphenated, accented “other”.
My work often uses technology to build on the threads of my existing work, which has questioned the illusion of truth that people associate with a photograph.
Process Statement
My work often uses technology (photoshop, lenticular, Final Cut Pro) to question the illusion of truth that people associate with a photograph (An Indian from India, The Virtual Immigrant, Re-Generations)
In contrast, images from Memories of India are created with the $20 Holga camera to intuitively create images that relate to my experience growing up in my cultural homeland, India.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s recent exhibitions include Sepia International, New York City, the RISD Museum, Newark Art Museum, 2009 Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China, 2006 Noorderlicht Photo Festival in Netherlands, the 2005 Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal Photo Biennale in Canada and Gallery Z2O in Rome, Italy.
Among the list of grants recently supporting Matthew‘s work include a 2012 Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, the John Gutmann Fellowship, MacColl Johnson Fellowship, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship and the American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts fellowship. She was recently an artist in residence at the Yaddo Colony and the MacDowell Colony. Her work can be found in the collection of the George Eastman House, Fogg Museum at Harvard, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Center for Creative Photography and the RISD Museum among others.
Matthew’s work is included in the book BLINK from Phaidon, that according to the publisher celebrates the quality and vision of today's 100 most exciting international contemporary photographers and Self-Portraits by Susan Bright and The Digital Eye by Sylvia Wolf.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is Professor of Art (Photography) at the University of Rhode Island and is represented by SepiaEYE, New York City & Tasveer Gallery, India
www.annumatthew.com
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