When Pushpamala N. embarked on her artistic voyage in the late 70s, she chose to do it with sculpture. She studied under Balan Nambiar in Bangalore, and Raghav Kaneria in MS University, Baroda.

For the past few years, I have followed the Bengaluru-based artist’s photo masquerades with great interest. She morphs in and out of characters in elaborate photo performances that are often a ...

Viewers can’t help but build their own elaborate story lines around South Asian artist Pushpamala N’s photographs. At Moving Still, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s major group exhibition on India’s photo ...

Size: 14.75 in x 11.81 in/40 cm x 30 cm. This photo is unframed and in excellent condition. The so-called "performance photography" of Bangalore-based, Indian Contemporary mixed-media female artist ...

The ongoing 9th edition Chobi Mela is on at full flow with the theme “Transition”, and although the programmes (artist talks, panel discussions and such) ended yesterday, the exhibits are up till ...

Presented by R. Benedito Ferrão Assistant Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies T his paper takes as its subject a photograph by Bangalore-based artist, Pushpamala N., ...

Pushpamala N (right) preparing for a performative work as Kaikeyi. Very few Indian contemporary artists pack in wit, gender politics, social commentary and pop culture like Pushpamala N does. Through ...

She donned the role of photographic raconteur from that of sculptor in 1997, and stepped into her own pictures to create what has been described best as performance photography. Since then, Pushpamala ...

Pushpamala N. as a Toda woman, from the ‘Native Women Of South India: Manners & Customs, 2000-2004’. Pushpamala N. in collaboration with Clare Arni (2004) Pushpamala N. is a shapeshifter. Starting off ...