Ali Akbar Mehta

Ali Akbar Mehta is a transmedia artist. He creates immersive archives that explore collective memetic history through narratives of memory, identity, violence, and conflict. He is a founder-member and one of the Artistic Directors of Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki. He is currently working as the Artistic Producer at mcult Media Residency, Helsinki. His projects have been exhibited in galleries and alternate spaces in New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Venice, Dubai, Helsinki, Pori, and Tampere. He holds a Master’s Degree in ‘Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art’ from the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland where he published the thesis titled ‘Cyber Archive: Being and Doing Knowledge’; and a BFA in ‘Drawing and Painting’ from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai.