Anni Kumari (b.1983) and studied BA (Honors) Political Science at Miranda  House,Delhi University (2002-05).Thereafter, she pursued BFA (Painting) and MFA (Painting) from the College of Art,Delhi, (2007-2013). She has had four solo exhibitions  in India,including 'Spontaneous Order' curated by WendyAmanda Coutinho,Tao Art Gallery (2023) Mumbai; 'Aiingan:Intimate Embrace',curated by Dr Alka Pande,Treasure Art Gallery (TAG),India Art Fair (2023); 'Codes of a Future,Traces of the Ancient' curated by Sanjana Shah,Treasure Art Gallery (TAG) Delhi (2022) and'Aigorhythms', jointly organised by Anant Art +Apparao Galleries (2021). Anni's works have been exhibited in several group exhibitions  in India,including,'Life is better in Black & White' curated by Pranamita Borghain,Art Positive,Delhi (2021);'All that is Life',curated by Saloni Doshi,Space 118,Mumbai (2021); 'Spiralling into the Absurd',curated by Amit Jain,Anant Art,Delhi (2021);'Blurring Boundaries' at 079 Stories, Ahmedabad (2021); 'Shifting Positions',India Art Fair (2020); 'Mirrored Questions',Art District XIII,Delhi (2019); 'Again & Yet Again',curated by Shruti Ramalingaiah,OED Gallery,Kochi (2017) among others. Additionally,she is a visiting faculty at Ashoka University in the Department of Visual Arts, Sonipat. She was an artist-in-residence at the Piramal Art Foundation,Maharashtra (2016). The artist has been a grantee at Sahapedia-UNESCO (2018),Artreach India (2015/17),Lalit Kala Akademi (2013),Ministry of Culture,GOI (2014-16) and the University Grants Commission (2015).

Education

2011-13: Delhi University,College  of Art,Master of Fine Arts,Painting (Distinction)

2007-11: Delhi University,College  of Art,Bachelor of Fine Arts,Painting (First Division)

2002-05: Delhi University,Miranda House,Bachelor of Art,PoliticalScience (Gold Medalist) Shows

Solo

2023- Spontaneous  Order:  An Unintended Coordination  of  Intentional Action, curated  by

Wendy Amanda Coutinho,Tao Art Gallery,Mumbai

2023-Aiingan: Intimate Embrace,curated by Dr Alka Pande,India Art Fair,Delhi

2022: 'Codes of a future,traces of the Ancient',curated by Sanjana Shah,Treasure Art

Gallery,Delhi

2021: 'Aigorythms', curated by Chhavi Jain Anant Art Gallery in collaboration with Apparao Galleries,The Lodhi, Delhi

Two-person

2021: 'Blurring  Boundaries',with Julia Piekielko,079 Stories (Ahmedabad)

2019: 'Mirrored Questions',with Balaji Ponna,Art District XIII (Delhi)

Group

2021: 'Life is better in Black and White',curated by Pranamita Borgohain,Art  Positive Gallery

(Delhi)

2021: 'All that is Life',curated by Saloni Doshi,Space 118(Mumbai)

2021: 'Spiralling into the Absurd', curated by Amit Jain,Anant Art gallery,Bikaner House (Delhi)

2020: 'A place to pour all of me',as part of 'Studio' by India Art Fair & Art District XIII (Delhi)

2020: 'Shifting Positions', group show as part of India Art Fair, through Art District XIII (Delhi)

2019: Art Bengaluru,by Galleria Sublime,Bangalore (Karnataka)

2019: Four Seasons,a group show by Gallery G (Bangalore)

2017: 'Again & yet again, curated by Shruti Ramalingaiah, OED gallery,Kochi (Kerala)

2017: Some things change,two-women show at India International Centre (Delhi)

2017: 'Unexplored Spaces' at Arpana Caur Art Gallery,World University of Design (Delhi)

2017: National Exhibition,Camlin Art Foundation,Jahangir Art Gallery (Mumbai)

2016: 'Five for the Future',Art District XIII,as part Emerging Artist Award by Glenfiddich India

2016:  'aboutturn: Is the female view-point essentially feminist',at Alliance Francaise( Gurgaon)

2016: 'Ideas Travel faster than light',Niv Art Centre and India Habitat Centre as part of PUBLICA,Floodlight Foundation (Delhi)

2012: AIFACS Annual Art Exhibition (Delhi)