Education
MA English Literature And Linguistics, University of Granada, 2016/2017
MA Financial Economics; University of Colombo, 2009/10
BBA International Business & Management; Northwood University, 2009
Residencies
Akademie Schloss Solutude, Stuttgart, 2026
Alserkal Avenue 2025
Delfina Foundation, London, 2025
Sharjah Art Foundation, Production Grant Residency, Sharjah 2022
Wysing Arts Center, Net//Work Digital Arts Residency, 2021
Verzasca Foto Residency, Ticino 2019
The Young Subcontinent Residency, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, Dec 2016
The Wilderness Amorgos Arts Residency, Amorgos, July 2016
Programs
Research Trip, Pro Helvetia, 2024
Regional Assembly, Regional Arts Australia, 2023
South Asia Incubator, Photo Kathmandu, Kathmandu 2023
Chennai Photo Biennale, Re-Imagining the Family Portrait, Chennai 2019
Staging Sitiations, with Munem Wasif, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa 2019
Grants and Awards
2024 Prince Claus Fund, Moving Narratives Fellowship
2023 Incubator Grant, Magnum Foundation & Photo Kathmandu
2022 Production Grant, Sharjah Art Foundation
2022 Pro Helvetia “To Gather” Grant
2020 Pro Helvetia New Delhi “Now-On” Grant
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Night of Encounters, Delfina Foundation, London
2024 Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane
2024 Breda Photo, Netherlands
2023 Guest Relations, Art Jameel, Dubai
2023 Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12 Gates Arts, Philadelphia
2023 Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
2023 Kaghazi Pairahan: Publishing and Resistance in South Asia, Arles
2022 Pop South Asia, Sharjah Art Foundation and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
2022 Encounters, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka
2022 Colomboscope (also 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2019)
2021 Phantasmapolis: 2021 Asia Art Biennal, Taiwan
2021 The CommonGround& Summer Show, Copeland Gallery, London
2020 Gwangju Media Art Festival, South Korea
2020 Al Quoz Art Festival, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
2019 ‘Body Building’, Ishara Foundation, Dubai
2019 Karachi Biennale, Karachi
2019 Contemporary Sri Lankan Art; A Cross Section, Tehran
2018 52 Artists 52 Actions, Art Space Sydney
2018 Living on the Margins, SOAS, London
2017 ‘In Search for Stillness’, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh
2017 ‘The Place in The End’, The Art Foundation, Athens
2016 Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo
2016 ‘Disambiguation’, Art Dubai, Dubai
Solo Exhibitions
2021 ‘day dreamer you are’ Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo
2017 ‘Coast and Concrete’ Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo
2014 'Colombedouin', Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo
Screenings
2023 Desert Dreaming at Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin
2023 Desert Dreaming at The Land is the Living Witness, BFI Feestival, London
Projects with The Packet
2022 The Lumbung of Publishers, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel
2021 Growing Like a Tree: sent a letter, Sunaparanta, Goa
2022 Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
2021 Growing Like a Tree: static in the air, Ishara Foundation, Dubai
2020 Serendpity Arts Virtual (online)
2020 South Asia Art, Instagram takeover
2019 Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
Curatorial / Organizing
2024 Zine and Heard, a 6 month program on self-publishing for emerging Sri Lankan artists (w/ The Packet)
2022 HOLY FLUX! deconsecration from the margins. Group exhibition at Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 (w/ The Packet)
2022 WetLand: a 3 year exploration of artistic process with artists from Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Switzerland
2020 Instigating Collaborative Study: a series of community dinners and self-publishing workshops (w/ The Packet)
2019 The Packet, a collaborative artist book (w/ The Packet)
2015 ‘My Colombo’, Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Colombo, Colomboscope 2015
Publications
My Beautiful Picture Book, Art Margins Vol 13 Iss 13, MIT press
Photography Bound: Reimagining Photobooks and Self-Publishing, University of Bergen and Fotogalleriet Oslo
A to Z of Conflict: Raking Leaves Publishing
52 Artists 52 Actions: Art Space Sydney, Thames and Hudson
Scroll Projects on Paper Part 2
Society and Culture in South Asia
Sri Lanka: Re-imagining Ceylon - Imago Mundi
Warehouse Zine
Talk
Art Murmur X Guftgu, The Artist Book (with Sohrab Hura) (2024)
Imaging South Asia (panel): Alkazi Foundation & Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi (2023)
Artist talk: Pop South Asia, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2022)
Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin (reaidngs with the Packet) (2022)
Artist talk, Art Jameel, Dubai (2022)
Artist Encounters #3: Language is Migrant (panel), Colomboscope (2021)
Are we building the next world together? (panel) EMA Expo X Pro Helvetia, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2021)
‘Publication as Process’, Photography Bound: Rethinking the Future of Photobooks and Self-Publishing, University of Bergen and Fotogalleriet Oslo (2020)
Alt+Shift+Studio, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2020)
‘Forms of Collaboration’, Panelist, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (2019)
‘Becoming a World Class City: Impressions from post war Colombo’, Ishara Foundation, Dubai (2019)
Artist talk, Colomboscope (2019)
'Myself', Artist Talk, Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna (2018)
‘Towards a Semiological Jihad’ TedX Colombo (2015)
‘Seeking God Through Instagram’, Pecha Kucha Colombo (2015)