Curriculum vitae

Ali Akbar Mehta (b.1983, Mumbai) is a Transmedia artist, curator, and researcher.


Education and Select Work Experience

2019 – ongoing
Doctoral Researcher, Contemporary Art, Aalto University, School of Art, Design & Architecture, Helsinki, FI
2019
Artistic Producer, m-cult Media Culture Centre, Helsinki, FI
2018 – 2020
Artistic Director, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
2015 – 2018
MA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art), Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
2002 – 2008
Co-founder, Lead Animator and Artist, Mareech Animated Design, Mumbai, IN
2001 – 2005
BFA (Honours), Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, IN
1998
GNIIT, National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Mumbai, IN

Grants and Awards

2024
Taiteen edistämiskeskus Globus Op Start, production grant, working group – Artists with Evidence
2024
Kone Säätiö, exhibition grant, working group – Haihatuksen Henki ry
2023
Kone Säätiö, working & production grant (3 years)
2022
Taiteen edistämiskeskus, working grant (1 year)
2021
Taiteen edistämiskeskus, working grant (1 year)
2021
Helsinki City Grant, working group Museum of Impossible Forms
2020
Kone Säätiö, COVID grant for organisations, working group Museum of Impossible Forms
2020
State Art Prize awarded to Museum of Impossible Forms, by the Ministry of Art and Culture, FI
2020
Taiteen edistämiskeskus, project grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms
2019
Tutkijaliitto-palkinto, awarded to Museum of Impossible Forms, by the Finnish Association of Researchers, FI
2018
Kone Säätiö, operational grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms, (2 years)
2018
Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, project grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms
2017
Aalto University, project grant, 256 Million Colours of Violence
2016
Kone Säätiö, operational grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms, (2 years)

Residencies and Research Fellowships

2025
A-i-R: science_technology_society season 3, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2024
Research Fellow: After School part II, CAD+SR, Nairobi, KE
2024
A-i-R: European Media Art Platform (EMAP), Werklietz, Halle, DE
2023-24
Research Fellow: After School part I, CAD+SR, Tire, TU
2023
Research fellow: Technologies of Critical Conscientization, Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research together with Casa do Povo, São Paolo, BR
2022
Research fellow: Commonplaces and Entanglements VII, Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Spoleto, IT
2021
A-i-R: Titanik Artist Residency, Turku, FI
2020
A-i-R: Maunula Commons, m-cult, Helsinki, FI
2018
A-i-R: To Participate in the Archive, ARTEL 2018, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
2012
A-i-R: SPACE 118, Mumbai, IN

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Purgatory EDIT: The Liberation Archives of Orphaned Cyborgs, Project 88, Mumbai, IN
2024
Purgatory EDIT: The war that is coming is not the last one – part II, Transmediale Studio, Berlin, DE
2024
Purgatory EDIT: The Doomscroll Archive, Speculum Artium, Ljubljana, SL
2020
Is there a room with just a colour?, Myymälä2, Helsinki, FI
2017
Limitations of Liability, Mumbai Assembly and Harkat Studios, Mumbai, IN
2016
256 Million Colours of Violence, Third Space, Helsinki, FI
2014
SITE: STAGE: STRUCTURE, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, IN
2012
Of Men and Supermen, India Art Festival, presented by TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2011
The Ballad of The War that Never Was, and other Bastardized Myths, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN

Performance

2023
Conflictorium, ETMU Days 2023, Jyväskylä University, Jyväskylä, FI
2022
Narrating WAR, Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
2021
Ballad of the Lost Utopian Meadow, a series of 3 performances in collaboration with Vidha Saumya, varialambo, and Joss Allen, as part of Aikakoneita Ja Utopiotia: kotinpaluu, kaukokaipuu, Elinehtoja (Time Machine and Utopias: Wanderlust, Lifelines, Homecoming), curated by Hanna Johansson, Ainola Museum, Visavuori Museum, and Tarvaspää Museum, FI
2021
Narrating WAR / Habitat 1, 4 performances in collaboration w/ varialambo, in ‘Reciprocities’, curated by Christine Langinauer, Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI, Vantaa, FI
2020
Narrating WAR, MOBILITIES, curated by Leena Kela, New Performance Festival, Turku, FI
2020
Glitchverse, Souja/Shelter Festival 2020, curated by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Ksenia Yurkova, Anastasia Vepreva, Helsinki (online)
2019
Narrating WAR, Relational Figures, Myymälä2, Helsinki, FI
2019
direct-contact// feedback, w/ Vidha Saumya, Pixelache Festival 2019: Breaking the fifth Wall, Helsinki, FI
2018
Narrating WAR, Experimental Event VI – La Torre de Babel, curated by Anna Jensen and Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Valimo Hall of Palmgren Conservatory, Pori, FI
2018
Narrating WAR, Carincarina, Nova Gorica, SL
2018
Narrating WAR, Performance LAB VII, curated by Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
2018
Cyborg Archives: GarbageInGarbageOut, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
2018
Cyborg Archives: Can Archives Speak?, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
2018
Narrating WAR, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
2017
Narrating WAR, Memory of War, curated by Heidi Hänninen, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, FI
2017
Narrating WAR, Clark House, Mumbai, IN
2016
Where does poetry nest?, curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Pispala Memorial, Tampere, IN
2016
null.void, for Chimurenga: Pan-African Space Station, curated by Ahmed Al-Nawas, Kallio Public Library, Helsinki, IN

Select Group Exhibitions

2025
EMAP exhibition, Transmediale Studio, (with Silent Green & Transmediale), Berlin, DE
2023
Cruel Radiance, curated by Harri Palviranta and Marko Karo, Backlight Festival 2023, Gallery Saskia, Photographic Center Nykyakia, Gallery Koppelo, Tampere art Museum, Tampere, FI
2022
Abdication of the Geniuses Festival, Oksasenkatu 11 + Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
2022
Into the Void, curated by Farbod Fakharzadeh, for Ars Pori, Pori, FI
2022
Locus of Control, curated by Abhinit Khanna and Anoushkaa Bhatnagar, for House of Creativity, Mumbai, IN
2021
Data Vitality: Soft infrastructures and Economies of Knowledge, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
2021
Reboot Me Softly ↻, 19th edition of Piksel Festival 2021, Bergen, NO
2021
Central Park Archives, produced by m-cult, Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
2021
Aikakoneita Ja Utopiotia: kotinpaluu, kaukokaipuu, Elinehtoja (Time Machine and Utopias: Wanderlust, Lifelines, Homecoming), curated by Hanna Johansson, Ainola Museum, Visavuori Museum, and Tarvaspää Museum, FI
2021
To Err is Human, curated by Anna Ruth, Mänttä Kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, FI
2021
Reciprocities, curated by Christine Langinauer, Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI, Vantaa, FI
2020
Meadow, curated by Taru Elfving, Fiskars Village, FI
2020
A Tapestry of Time, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2019
Making Space, curated by Saloni Doshi, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2018
No Corners, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2018
Assembly of Access, TIFA, Pune, IN
2017
Partizaning Maunula, Maunulatalo, Maunula, Helsinki, FI
2017
OUT 2, Research Pavilion: The Utopia of Access, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
2017
Ateria/The Meal, URB 2017 + Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2017
IS/NOT: Sculpture for the Post-Truth Era, Aalto University Learning Centre, Helsinki, FI
2016
Immersion 2016, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
2016
Where Does Poetry Nest?, curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Galleria Emil, Tampere, FI
2016
Space Invaders IV: Heterotopia, Espoo, FI
2016
SOAK, D/func.t, Helsinki, FI
2016
*Whose History is it anyway?, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
2015
Cisspace: Construct(ed.), Otaniemi Recycling Center, Espoo, FI
2014
Infinite, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2013
Small is Beautiful – II, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2013
Beyond the Canvas, ­curated by Kalpana Shah and Sapna Kar, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2013
Tagore Lost and Found, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias, IndiaBulls Art Gallery and Auction House, New Delhi, IN
2013
Equilibrium, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2012
Synergy, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2012
Small is Beautiful, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2010
Three New Voices: Dimensions in Time & Space, Art Heritage, New Delhi, IN
2010
April Salon, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, IN
2010
Evolve, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
2009
Gems of India, Unicorn Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2009
India on Canvas, charity auction, New Delhi, IN
2008
The Kohinoor Selection, Unicorn Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008
Art for Justice and Peace, Sabrang, Mumbai, IN
2008
Art Smart, Mumbai, and Delhi, IN
2007
India on Canvas, charity auction, Mumbai, IN
2007
Celebrating India, Treo Foundation, Delhi-Calcutta-Bangalore-Mumbai-New York

Curatorial Work

2024
Co-curator: HAIHATUS25, Haihatus Art Center, Joutsa, Finland
2023
Project curator: Agonistic Intelligence/s (or another AI/s), Summer school in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF) and Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) for Helsinki Biennale 2023: New Directions May Emerge, Helsinki, FI

Public Lecture I: Dalida Benfield and Christopher Bratton - Deschooling Art and Its Archives

Public Lecture II: Sinthujan Varatharajah - Who are Museums for? On Goeers and Absentees

Public Lecture III: Annet Dekker - Politics of Access within Archives as Artistic Praxis

2023
Co-curator (via Museum of Impossible Forms): New Directions May Emerge, Helsinki Biennale 2023, curated by Joasia Kysia, Helsinki, FI
2022
Project curator: Archives as Contemporary Object X, podcast series w/ Party Office b2b Fadescha, documenta fifteen, Kassel, DE

Ep 01: History as Tools of the State, Memory as Art of the Stateless, w/ Farbod Fakharzadeh

Ep 02: Memory Work and Inauthentic Archives, w/ Farbod Fakharzadeh

Ep 03: Decolonial Media Aesthetics - part 1, w/ Maria Dalida Benfield

Ep 04: Decolonial Media Aesthetics - part 2, w/ Maria Dalida Benfield

Ep 05: A Museum for A People, w/ Hudda Kahireh

Ep 06: Problematics of Ethnic Museums in the Postcolony, w/ Hudda Kahireh

2021-2022
Curatorial advisor: Party Office, New Delhi, IN
2021
Project curator: How to Work Together? Extended notes on collaboration, part of a collaboration between Museum of Impossible Forms + Platform, in ‘20 Years of Platform Festival’, Vaasa, FI
2021
project curator: Impossible Reader 2020, How to Work Together: Seeking models of solidarity and alliance, (ed.) Aiava, Emily & Aiava, Raine. (pub.) Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI.

Episode 01 Shubhangi Singh

Episode 02 Zahrah Ehsan

Episode 03 Surabhi Nadig

Episode 04 Vishnu Vardhani Rajan

2021
Organiser: Touching/Transforming, Seminar, Cluster for Critical Artistic Research, Aalto University, FI
2021
Working group: What Should Art Institutions Do Now?, Culture Lab Europe – Spaces for Solidarity, (online)
2021
Peer support: Anti-Caste Archive, Party Office, New Delhi, IN
2020
Supporting curator: In-Between, HIAP Summer Residency 2020, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), Helsinki, FI
2019
Programme facilitator: Network Effects, M-cult, Oodi Library, Helsinki, FI
2019
Event coordinator and Interviewer: Vidisha Fadescha: Party, a tool for Care – curated by Ali Akbar Mehta, part of Today Is Our Tomorrow Festival, organised by PUBLICS, Helsinki, FI
2016
Curator:  MATERIAL///IMMATERIAL, A: SPACE, Espoo, FI
2016
Co-curatorSOAK, D/func.t, Helsinki, FI

Artist Talks / Conferences

2024
Artist Talk: Countering Archival Fascism: Moving from technopolitical regimes to technodiverse cosmologies, deCYPher lab, BioArt Society, Helsinki, FI
2024
Panelist: Where to start when everything is urgent – intersectionalities, priorities and empathy, Stop Hatred Now! Festival, UrbanApa, Helsinki (online)
2024
Discussion Series: Ec(h)o Effect: Conversations on War and Environment, with Colin Greer & Ines Montavlao (mod.), Artists with Evidence (online)

Conversation #1: From Urgency to Possibility

Conversation #2: Resilience Narratives: Solutions for a War-torn Environment

Conversation #3: Transformative Potential in War and Environmental Crisis

Conversation #4: Artistic Narratives of Environmental Consequences in Warfare

Conversation #5: Art+Science as a Catalyst for Change

Conversation #6: Circular Economies, Coping Strategies, and Artistic Responses to Conflict

2023
Keynote lecture: Curating Across Cultures, ARTIVAL RE:CONNECT, Globe Art Point, FI
2023
Panel Moderator: Collective and community-based art practices and their political potential, Together Again Festival, Finnish Institutes (Benelux, UK + Ireland, Madrid, New York), the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute, and Institut Finlandais, Oodi Helsinki, FI
2023
Artist Talk: Archiving in the Age of Data, Power and Violence, Casa do Povo, São Paolo, BR
2023
Artist Talk: The Urgency of Asking Questions, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2022
Guest Speaker: The Politics of Curating, Platform for Feminist Leadership, UrbanApa (online)
2022
Artist talk: Burn all the books that call you the unknown: Radical Archives, Party Office b2b Fadescha, documenta fifteen, Kassel, DE
2022
Panelist: How to work together – tools and practices for transgressional collective work, Stop Hatred Now! Festival, UrbanApa, Helsinki (online)
2021
Panelist: Decolonisation in the arts and cultural fields, part of ‘In Conversation with the Finnish Institutes’ moderated by Monica Gathuo, The Finnish Institute UK+Ireland, (online)
2021
Artist Talk: Central Park Archives: Access, commons, and networks of care, moderated by m-cult and invited speaker Annet Dekker, part of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities Spring 2021, Maunulatalo, Helsinki (online)
2021
Artist Talk: Mobility and its Discontents: Internationalism, Mobility & Borders,  Hangö Teatrträff, (online)
2020
Artist Talk: Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 Readings with Annet Dekker, and Susanna Ånäs and Ali Akbar Mehta, Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Helsinki (online)
2020
Panelist: CreaTures (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures), Aalto University, Helsinki (online)
2020
Panelist: New Standards, Stop Hatred Now! Festival, UrbanApa, Helsinki (online)
2020
Artist Talk: Towards a New Internet, In conversation with Palash Mukhopadhyay, Myymälä2, Helsinki
2020
Artist Talk: Violence in Finnish Society, In conversation with Arvind Ramachandran, Myymälä2, Helsinki
2020
Artist Talk: Digital Creativity and Entanglement, In conversation with Timo Tuhkanen, Myymälä2, Helsinki
2020
Artist Talk: Is there a room with just a colour? In conversation with Camelo Ramiro, Myymälä2, Helsinki
2019
Guest Speaker: Notes for Radical Diversity, Helsinki Art Museum HAM, Helsinki
2019
Panelist: Resistance and Re-imagining Alternatives, Nordic Decolonial Workshop, Center for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Helsinki
2018
Guest Speaker: Re: Musing the Museum, Part II, Kiasma International Museum, Helsinki
2018
Guest Speaker: Maunula Remix, m-cult, Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
2018
Artist Talk: Congratulations, the space has been invaded: NOW WHAT?, Space Invaders VI, Helsinki, FI
2017
Panelist: Decolonial Dreaming, Urbanapa 2017, Atenuim Museum, Helsinki
2017
Artist Talk: The Urgency of Asking Questions, in conversation with Kevin Lobo, Piramal Museum, Mumbai
2018
Artist Talk: Memory and the Maximum City, Godrej India Culture Lab, Mumbai
2014
Artist Talk: FOLKARCHIVE, in conversation with Sumesh Sharma; moderated by Latika Gupta, Dr Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, Mumbai

Select Teaching / Lectures

2023
Guest lecturer: Cyber Realities, Hybridity, and the Users (of Archives), Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA), Aalto University, Helsinki
2022
Guest lecturer: Who Watches Whom?, Art History programme, UNIARTS, Helsinki, FI
2021
Guest lecturer: A small introduction to the history of art from the Indian Subcontinent, w/ Vidha Saumya, UNIARTS, Helsinki, FI
2021
Guest lecturer: Archives as Witness, Archives as knowledge Systems, Darpan 2021, Symbiosis School For Liberal Arts (SSLA) Pune (online)
2020
Guest Lecturer and Mentor: Kuvan Kevät 2020, Exhibition Laboratory, University of Arts Helsinki, FI
2020
Guest lecturer: Archiving & the Curatorial Function, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, (online)
2020
Workshop: Central Park Archives: Collective Authorship, M-cult, Maunulatalo, Helsinki
2020
Guest Lecturer: Surrender? Surrender, Exhibition Laboratory, University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
2018
Guest Speaker: Cyber Archives, Die Schule der Archaeutopie in conversation with Ali Akbar Mehta, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna
2018
Guest Lecturer: Archiving: Histories of the Present, Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA), Aalto University, Helsinki
2018
Workshop: A Common Sense Manifesto of Cooking Practices for Artists, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
2011-14
Guest Lecturer: Whistling Woods International Institute of Film, Communication & Media Arts, Mumbai, IN

Select Publications

2024
Review: Processual (re)presentations of ‘knowing’ without beginning(s) nor end(ings). In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 23.
2023
Journal article: The Politics of Togetherness: Beyond the integration infrastructure of State and institutional apparatus. In Z. Karimi, et. al. (Eds.), Rethinking Integration: Challenging Oppressive Practises and Pointing to Ways Forward. Volume 09, Migration Institute of Finland, ISBN 978-952-7399-37-8
2023
Catalog text: The Boycean double-bind: Exquisite Tension as a pedagogy of free play. In 30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, P Karttunen et al. (Eds.), Saastamoinen Foundation. ISBN 978-952-69029-1-3
2023
Catalog text: A rhythmic play of possibilities in time: Obliquo Policromo as a holder of existential potentialities. In 30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, P Karttunen et al. (Eds.), Saastamoinen Foundation. ISBN 978-952-69029-1-3
2023
Catalog text: A tessellated life: Space Structures as a philosophy of perseverance. In 30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, P Karttunen et al. (Eds.), Saastamoinen Foundation. ISBN 978-952-69029-1-3
2023
Book chapter: On the Edge of the Re(lation)al. In Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás & Marianne Schädler (Eds.), Beyond Matter, Within Space: Curatorial and Art Mediati
2022
Interview: On Recognising the moment of Hope: Speaking in Echoes with Hiwa K., In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 15.
2022
Review: Who Watches Whom? Ruminations on power, gaze, and field through Pivi Takala’s Close Watch. In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 12.
2022
Article: Bearing Witness: Articulating an Archival Practice. In Unstable capitalism, Tiede ja Edistys [Science & Progress], No.1-2(2022)
2021
Journal article: Touching/Transforming: Notes Towards Collective Critical Artistic Research Practices and Processes. (with Bäckman, F., Close, R., Godin, M-A., Kallio-Tavin, M., Mehta, A. A., Qureshi, A., & Sadatizarrini, S.) Research in Arts and Education, 4/2021, December. Aalto University. ISSN 2670-2142
2021
Book chapter: Generating (an)other economy: Working together at Museum of Impossible Forms. In E. Aiava & R. Aiava (Eds.), How to Work Together: Seeking models of solidarity and alliance (pp. 149–176). Museum of Impossible Forms. ISBN: 978-952-94-4840-1
2021
Book chapter: Ääniä Marginaalista: Museum of Impossible Forms Kontulassa [Voicing the Margins: Museum of Impossible Forms]. In A. Rastas & L. Koivunen (Eds.), Marginaaleista Museoihin [From Margins to Museums] (pp. 259-265). Vastapaino. ISBN 978-951-768-889-5
2021
Review: A longing for something written in memory: Library as Archive as Excavation Site. In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 1.
2021
Book chapter: Museum of Impossible Forms ja antirasistisen kulttuurituatannon haasteet [Museum of Impossible Forms and the challenges of antiracist cultural production]. In S. Keskinen, M. Seikkula, & F. Mkwesha (Eds.), Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta [Racism, power and resistance] (pp. 221-224). Gaudeamus. ISBN 978-9-5234-5107-0
2020
Book chapter: The Shape of Museums to Come. In Schnittpunkt & J Baur (Eds.), Das Museum der Zukunft: 43 Neue beiträge zur diskussion über die zukunft des museums [The Museum of the Future. 43 New Contributions to the Discussion about the Future of the Museum] (pp. 189-193). Transcript Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-8394-5270-7
2020
Curatorial text: Processing In-Between(ness), In M. Savallampi & A. A. Mehta (Eds.) In Between HIAP summer Residency publication (pp. 7-12). Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP).
2020
Book chapter: SAFE{R}: Evolving the Conditions for Collaboration. In Six years in the Third Space. Third Space (online).
2020
Curatorial text: Who is Welcome? – Thinking Hospitality as Museum of Impossible Forms. In Y Billimore & J Koitela (Eds.) Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 (pp. 109-111). Archive Books. ISBN 9783948212438
2020
Text: A Cyber Archive of Questions. In R. Rajiv (Ed.) cohabitant/mutants, Restricted Fixations #1
2019
Curatorial text: How to be hospitable without being a motel: Thinking Hospitalities. In Y. Billimore & J. Koitela (Eds.) Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 1 (pp. 57-65). Archive Books. ISBN 978394821215
2019
Curatorial text: Atlas of Lost Beliefs (for Insurgents, Citizens, & Untitled Bodies). Museum of Impossible Forms.
2019
Book chapter: To Not Wait for the Archive: Home and Labour mired in the complications of Invisibalisation. In S. Mahbouba, P. Jallili & E. Lagerspetz (Eds.), The Home Issue, Visual Culture and Contemporary Art Journal #5, Aalto University.
2018
Text: Colours of Violence. In N. Adajania (Ed.), AROOP III - Totems & Taboos. Raza Foundation.
2018
Journal article: Cyber Archive: Archiving as a sustainable counter-hegemonic practice. In A. Poddar & N. Desai (Eds.), Inside/Outside, Hakara Journal, #3
2018
MA Thesis: Cyber Archive: Being and Doing Knowledge. Aalto University.
2018
Editorial text: FOOD and Other Practices at the Arthouse. In A. A. Mehta & V. Saumya (Eds.), Visual Culture and Contemporary Art Journal #4. Aalto University
2017
Article: Locating: The Museum of Impossible Forms. In Kone Foundation Boldness Blog.
2017
Interview: Border Crossing: Reshaping the Agency of Struggle. In CuMMA Papers Publication Series. Aalto University.
2017
Journal article: The Photons of Politics: Footnotes for a New History. In S. Boynick (Ed.), RAB-RAB Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art, #4.1 (pp. 67-79), RAB-RAB Press.
2015
Exhibition essay: No one at the ceremony remembers to mention the artist. for Vidha Saumya’s exhibition, No one at the ceremony remembers to mention the artist. Third Space.
2014
Artist book: Site: Stage: Structure. StudioVAAK.
2011
Poem: A body split in two, In B. Sarkar (Ed.), International Gallerie: Journal of Contemporary art, issue 30. Mumbai.


Public projects / Commissions

2015
TRINITY: Godrej Legacy Park Silos, Godrej One, Mumbai, IN


Positions of Trust and Memberships

2021 – ongoing
Member, Catalysti, Helsinki, FI
2021 – 2022
Board Member, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Helsinki, FI
2021 – 2023
Board Member, TKOK ry, the supervising body of Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
2021
Board Chair, Kiila ry, Helsinki, FI
2019 – ongoing
Research Member, Cluster of Critical Artistic Research (CCARE), Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
2019 – ongoing
Member, Party Office, New Delhi, IN
2019 – 2021
Board Member, Kiila ry, Helsinki, FI
2016 – ongoing
Founding member, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
2016 – 2017
Member, Third Space, Helsinki, FI