September 14, 6:20pm

Professor Sabeena Gadihoke will be leading an exhibition walkthrough with Annu Palakunnathu Matthew for The Answers Take Time, a retrospective of Matthew’s work accompanied by the monograph of the same title at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum. Curated by Esa Epstein, this exhibition showcases eight distinct bodies of work that span nearly three decades of Matthew’s career.

Annu Palakunnathu: The Answers Take Time

September 15 - October 27, 2024

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
Special Project Space
Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug)
91/A, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road
Byculla East, Mumbai 400027

2024

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew was awarded a 2024 Beatrice S. Demers Fellowship to study Italian in the summer of 2024 and received funding to continue her research and meet the descendants of the Italian families who sheltered escaped Indian prisoners from the Italian Campaign of World War II. She will be giving a talk at the Festival delle Culture Popolari in Collelonga, a town that hid some of these soldiers.

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

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 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

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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