December 06, 2023 | 7 PM EDT

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be speaking about her practice as part of the Penumbra Foundation’s Artist Series. Organized by Leandro Villaro, the series brings to life the work of featured photographers and other notable guest artists and scholars, offering a unique opportunity to engage with them in an intimate setting as they discuss their work and process.

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Penumbra Foundation
36 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016
USA

September 23, 2023 | 2 PM EDT

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be in conversation with Dr. Francine Weiss, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Newport Art Museum, to discuss her work on the occasion of her recently released monograph, The Answers Take Time (Minor Matters Books and sepiaEYE, 2022).

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RISD Museum
20 N Main St
Providence, RI 02903
USA

June 15, 2023 | 7PM EST

Artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Minor Matters co-founder Michelle Dunn Marsh will be in conversation at the Griffin Zoom Room to discuss The Answers Take Time (Minor Matters / sepiaEYE, 2022), Matthew’s mid-career survey. The publication elucidates the progression of Matthew’s conceptual, installation-driven work using photography, collage, digital animation, parody, and ephemera to explore performative and deep-rooted personal elements of cultural identities.

The Answers Take Time
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Griffin Zoom Room
The Griffin Museum of Photography

Summer 2023

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work is profiled in an essay by Bakirathi Mani titled The Living Archive: How do artists engage with collections shaped by colonial histories? for in Aperture 251: Being & Becoming: Asian in America. This landmark issue considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American.  

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Being & Becoming: Asian in America 
Aperture 251
Summer 2023

May 05 - September 03, 2023

Pamela Singh and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s works are on view at Hier Bin Ich / Here I Am, Kunsthalle Emden’s survey of self-portraiture by over 30 female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries across all artistic media. 

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Kunsthalle Emden
Hinter dem Rahmen 13
26721 Emden
Germany

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is on view at Harvard Art Museum as part of their Reframe Initiative. The museum-wide program aims to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum by examining difficult histories, highlighting untold stories, and experimenting with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums. 

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

January 17 - March 10, 2023

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is exhibited at the William Benton Museum of Art’s Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge. The exhibition explores how science, art, and museums collide to produce, and sometimes distort, truth and knowledge. 

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William Benton Museum of Art
245 Glenbrook Rd
Storrs, CT 06269

September 03, 2022 - June 09, 2024

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is on view at RISD Museum’s Art and Design from 1900 to Now exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the areas of study taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, drawing together works on paper, costume and textiles, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts and design.

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Rhode Island School of Design Museum
20 North Main Street 
Providence, RI 02903

2022

sepiaEYE will partner with Minor Matters to release Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s first monograph The Answers Take Time.

This midcareer survey of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew visualizes the progression of a conceptual, installation-driven artist who uses photography, collage, digital animation, parody, and ephemera to explore performative and deep-rooted personal elements of cultural identities. From her highly-publicized series “Indian from India” to the lesser-seen “Bollywood Satirized,” the book reveals within her work consistent themes of malleability, identity, and memory.

The Answers Take Time
(Minor Matters/sepiaEYE, 2022)
8 x 9.5 inches
~75 black and white and color images
Hardcover, 112 pages
$50 plus shipping, deadline June 25 to achieve 500 pre-sales

January 18 - March 27, 2022

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work is included in the exhibition “Black, White & Shades of Grey” at Cal Poly Pomona. The exhibition has been curated by Michele Cairella Fillmore and addresses topics of the current socio-political, racial and ethnic, gender-based and cultural issues.

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Kellogg University Art Gallery
Cal Poly Pomona

December 2021

Pamela Singh, Nandita Raman, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Vivan Sundaram are included in Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait by Phillip Prodger, published by Thames & Hudson, 2021.

Face Time is an esteemed curator’s introduction to the history and themes of photographic portraiture that masterfully combines some of the most famous portraits ever made with rarely seen treasures and curiosities.

December 17, 2021 - March 20, 2022

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work from An Indian from India is included in the exhibition “Visions of India: From the Colonial to the Contemporary” curated by Nathaniel Gaskell for the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru. The survey exhibition of over 170 works is now on view at the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) in Melbourne, Australia.

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Monash Gallery of Art (MGA)
Melbourne, Australia

October 03, 2021 – January 23, 2022

ARRIVALS, guest curated by Heather Ewing, will feature some 50 works spanning the 16th century to the present. Artists represented in the exhibition include Norman Akers, Katrina Andry, Enrique Chagoya, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Willie Cole, Vanessa German, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Titus Kaphar, Dorothea Lange, Annie Lopez, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Keith Anthony Morrison, Dulce Pinzón, Sara Rahbar, Faith Ringgold, Ben Shahn, Roger Shimomura, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Saul Steinberg, Stephanie Syjuco, Thuan Vu, Kara Walker, Flo Oy Wong and N.C. Wyeth.

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Katonah Museum of Art

September 25, 2021 - January 9, 2022

Curated by Dr. Francine Weiss. For over twenty years, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has been making photo-based works of art that deal with lesser known histories and immigration. The exhibition will feature works from Memories of India, An Indian from India, Open Wound - Stories of Partition, and The Unremembered - Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of WWII.

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Newport Art Museum

July 30 – October 3, 2021

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s lenticular prints from The Virtual Immigrant series are part of a group show, (re)location, at the Bristol Art Museum. This exhibition was reviewed by Michael Rose in the GoLocalProv.

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Bristol Art Museum
Rhode Island

July 26 - October 17, 2021

Works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India will be on view in “New England Now: People.”

“New England Now: People is the second exhibition in a new biennial series featuring regional contemporary artists. Organized by Associate Curator Carolyn Bauer, this multi-media group exhibition plumbs and celebrates the communities and people of New England.”

Review in Art Fix Daily, June 23, 2021.

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Shelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, VT 05482

July 17, 2021 - February 27, 2022

Works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Pamela Singh are on view in “Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Years of the Daimler Art Collection: Works from the Collection 1920-2021.” The exhibition examines the interplay between art and human co-existence with a selection of around 100 artworks by about 70 artists from the corporate collection. The Daimler Art Collection was founded in 1977 and contains over 3,000 pieces of art.

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Daimler Art Collection
Epplestraße 225
70567 Stuttgart-Möhringen
Germany

May 18, 2021, 12 - 1:30 PM EDT
Online Workshop

Artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and sepiaEYE director Esa Epstein will be in conversation online for A Peek Behind the Curtain: Conversations Between Photographers + Their Dealers on May 18, 12pm EST. This ongoing 90-minute series is geared toward photographers and the curious collector, going behind-the-scenes to have an honest and open conversation between a dealer and one of their artists.

The conversation will cover how dealers meet photographers/artists, how they work together, how a gallery defines its brand, how new talent is discovered, and the challenges of running a gallery today. Collector, advisor, and Maine Media faculty member, Alice Sachs Zimet will moderate.

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April 14, 2021, 5:30-6:30PM EST
Online Event

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is part of the second of two conversations with the participating artists in the exhibition “Digital Breath: Video and Sound Art in the Age of Global Connectivity,” guest curated by multimedia artist Brian C. O’Malley.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, John Devault, Lauren Mantecón, and Joseph Fortune will join O’Malley to discuss their individual explorations of the theme “breath” during this other-worldly time of the pandemic. Through this lens, each Digital Breath artist has created a compelling and thought-provoking response that asks us to consider human connection and disconnection.

Talk will be delivered live via Zoom on April 14, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm EST, and the link will be sent directly to registrants on the day before the talk.

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March 15 - May 31, 2021

Spanning 6 venues in Alappuzha and Ernakulam, ‘Lokame Tharavadu’ ‘ലോകമേ തറവാട്’ (The World Is One Family), is a large-scale curated contemporary art exhibition of Malayali artists from all around the world. Organized by The Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Government of Kerala, over 260 artists will be exhibiting their works. Works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's series, ReGeneration, will be on view.

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Alappuzha & Ernakulam, India

February 6 - June 6, 2021

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Moon from the To Majority Minority series opens the Newport Art Museum exhibition, “Digital Breath: Video & Sound Art in the Age of Global Connectivity.”

Curated by Brian C. O’Malley, the exhibition brings together the work of seven artists with fresh and diverse perspectives exploring the theme of “breath” during the era of Covid with compelling video and sound artworks.

Matthew’s work weaves together 5 visual stories of immigrants lives through images & text.

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Newport Art Museum
Rhode Island

Wednesday, December 9, 12-1 PM EST

In her new book, Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America, Professor Bakirathi Mani (English Literature at Swarthmore College) investigates how images of empire haunt contemporary Asian American visual cultures.

In this lecture Bakirathi Mani is joined by artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Contemporary Curator Jodi Throckmorton for a discussion on Matthew’s series, An Indian From India in relation to Edward S. Curtis's photographs of Indigenous peoples and Mani’s recent publication.

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia

December 3 - 5, 2020

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Qiana Mestrich will be a part of The Center for Photography Woodstock’s 2020 virtual Symposium on Race, Activism and Photography. The Keynote Address will be by artist Carrie Mae Weems.

“Race, Activism and Photography will address an array of issues including the history of photography through the prism of race, representation and identity, and activism, and examines how these topics have evolved from 1839 to the present; the economic and social impact of systemic racism, and how these inequities have been represented in the media; how artists, within the context of fine art, are using their work to address oppression and discrimination; and, finally, how artists are responding to the challenging and unique opportunities that lie ahead in the art world.”

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Center for Photography at Woodstock

November 18, 2020 6-7PM (EST)

Join Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Asma Naeem (Chief Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art), and Carol Huh (Curator of Contemporary Art, Freer Sackler, Smithsonian) in a conversation about her series, THE UNREMEMBERED: Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of World War II. The UNREMEMBERED is a photo, video, and multi-media project on the Indian soldiers who fought for the British in World War II.

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National Museum of Asian Art
Smithsonian, Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, DC

October 27, 2020 at 6-7 PM

The 2020/21 speaker series by the Photographic Resource Center features four photographers working in a range of styles ranging from documentary photography to installation. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be doing a Zoom/online lecture on her photo-based installation work drawing on archival photographs as a source of inspiration to re-examine neglected historical narratives.

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Photographic Resource Center
Cambridge

September 18, 2020 – January 10, 2021

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Portfolio 2 of An Indian from India will be on view in its entirety in “version 2.0” of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Women Breaking Boundaries exhibition. The exhibition explores the role of women in art and art history through works from the permanent collection created by artists from the seventeenth century to today.

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Cinncinati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
USA

Online Auction:
August 8, 9 AM – August 29, 9 PM

Two works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series will be up for in this benefit auction to support art, artists, and the Museum.

Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, Rhode Island
USA

July 16, 2020 - March 2021

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Daughters from her An Indian from India series is on view in the George Eastman Museum’s exhibition, History of Photography.

“This selection of photographs commemorates the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the right to vote (though many women continued to be prevented from exercising that right). This installation examines how photography has portrayed, and fundamentally shaped, perceptions of women and feminist movements since the mid-1800s.”

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George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY

November 22, 2019 - January 5, 2020

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's An Indian from India series will be exhibited in Returning the Gaze: From the Colonial to the Contemporary alongside works by Indu Antony, Anoli Perera, Gauri Gill, Michael Buhler-Rose, Pushpalama N., and Clare Arni as part of the Greetings from India segment of the Jimei X Arles 2019 International Photography Festival.

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Returning the Gaze: From the Colonial to the Contemporary
Jimei X Arles 2019 International Photography Festival
THREE SHADOWS XIAMEN PHOTOGRAPHY ART CENTRE
Xiamen, China

September 29, 2019, 4-6 PM

Chennai Photo Biennale is excited to present a Panel Discussion on Family Portraiture between photo-based artist Annu Matthew and fine art photographer Martine Fougeron.

Family photos are an essential testimony of the way of life of a given period of time. They inform on the social status of the subject family, the event for which photo was taken, the selection of family members displayed in the photo. The usual family patterns have been married couples with children, sometimes along with the grandparents. The group that is now considered to be a family is no longer with the same cast. On the photographer's side, the information lies on his social status, on the image he reworks on to adjust the result to his own and the client's expectations.

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Family Portraiture: A discussion between Annu P Matthew and Martine Fougeron
Alliance Française of Madras
24, College Rd, Opposite Good Shepherd School, Subba Road Avenue, Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600034
India