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SUMMARY:Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Keynote Speaker | New England Portfolio
  Reviews (NEPR)
DESCRIPTION:Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
 
 It is an honor to host Annu Palakunnathu Matthew as our keynote
  speaker for the 2025 New England Portfolio Review (NEPR). Her
  immersive approach to storytelling through still and moving images
  creates a visual experience that fully engages the viewer. 
 
 Join us online in the Griffin Zoom Room Friday night September 26th at
  7pm for Ms. Matthew's presentation\, about her work\, creativity and
  vision. 
 
 ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW's (b. United Kingdom\; lives in Rhode
  Island\, USA) photo-based work draws on old photographs to re-examine
  historical narratives in the US and South Asia. Though trained as a
  photographer\, her work increasingly uses the ever expanding digital
  toolbox and has moved into installations. The result is a blend of
  still and moving imagery that shifts the viewer's perspective to
  question established and marginalized histories. 
 
 Matthew's recent solo exhibitions include the Royal Ontario Museum\,
  Canada\, Nuit Blanche Toronto\, and sepiaEYE\, NYC. Matthew has also
  exhibited her work at the RISD Museum\, Newark Art Museum\, MFA
  Boston\, MFA Houston\, Victoria & Albert Museum\, 2018 Kochi-Muziris
  Biennale\, 2018 Fotofest Biennial\, 2009 Guangzhou Photo Biennial\, as
  well as at the Smithsonian. Her essay on the unremembered Indian
  soldiers of World War II was recently (2022) included in Ars
  Orientalis\, the journal from the Smithsonian's National Museum of
  Asian Art. 
 
 Grants and fellowships that have supported her work include a John
  Gutmann\, MacColl Johnson\, two Fulbright Fellowships\, and grants
  from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. In addition\, she has
  been an artist in residence at Civitella Ranieri\, Lightwork\,
  MacDowell\, Woodstock Center for Photography\, and Yaddo. 
 
 As Holland Cotter of the New York Times wrote about her 2016 solo
  exhibition at sepiaEYE in New York\, ...The mostly album-size
  photographs in this compact but far-ranging gallery survey are about
  the intensities and confusions of a cultural mixing that makes the
  artist\, psychologically\, both a global citizen and an outsider\, at
  home and in transit\, wherever she is. And it's about photography as a
  document and fiction: souvenir\, re-enactment\, and imaginative
  projection. A beautiful show that could too easily slip away. Minor
  Matters Books and sepiaEYE published her monograph\, The Answers Take
  Time\, in December 2022. 
 
 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is a Professor of Art at the University of
  Rhode Island. She was also the Director of the Center for the
  Humanities from 2014-2019 and the 2015-17 Silvia Chandley Professor in
  Peace Studies and Non-violence. 
 
 See more of Ms. Matthew's works at www.annumatthew.com
LOCATION:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/apm_nepr25/
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/apm_nepr25/
CATEGORIES:Cultural\,Education
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