Keerthana Kunnath is a visual artist based between London and India. Engaging with the visual rhetoric of post-colonial Indian mainstream media, she deconstructs and reimagines narratives to challenge entrenched societal norms. Her practice is rooted in both personal and collective memory, exploring the intersections of intimacy, queerness, and community, and offering a lens that moves between the intimate and the universal, the personal and the political.
Kunnath often works on long-term projects, taking time to build relationships with her subjects and allowing the work to unfold organically. This approach not only enables the stories to be told with honesty but also serves as a way for her to better understand herself, reflecting the continuous evolution of her practice.
Her work is currently being exhibited at Rencontres d’Arles and the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Kunnath often works on long-term projects, taking time to build relationships with her subjects and allowing the work to unfold organically. This approach not only enables the stories to be told with honesty but also serves as a way for her to better understand herself, reflecting the continuous evolution of her practice.
Her work is currently being exhibited at Rencontres d’Arles and the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Press and Publications
AtmosCreative Review
WePresent by Wetransfer
British Journal of Photography
It’s Nice That
Vogue India
Paper Magazine
The Indian Express
Qiio Magazine
Azeema Magazine
Elle India
L’Officiel Art
Homegrown India
The Established
Selected Clients
Apple, Nike, Converse, Vogue, NYT, Monocle,Avant Arte, Perfect Magazine, The Atlantic,
The Modern House, 1843, Universal Music, Granta,
Amazon Productions, Brand Eins
Exhibitions
2025- Rencontres d’Arles, France2025- Saatchi Gallery, UK
2025- Gallery Melike Bilir, Germany
2025- The Naughton Gallery, Belfast
2025- Apre Art House, Mumbai
2025- Fujifilm House of Photography, London, UK
2024- Chennai Photo Bienalle, India
2024- Eyedentity- Hase 29, Germany
2024- Photoworks Weekender, UK
2024- OD Photo Prize Exhibition, UK
2024- Palm* Photo Prize Exhibition, UK, Netherlands
2023- India Art Architecture Design Bienalle, India
2023- WePresent x Outernet London, UK
2023- Frome Photo Festival, UK
2023- Women in Art, Netherlands
2023- India Art & Architecture Biennale, India
2022- British Journal of Photography IPA, UK
Awards
2025- Royal Photographic Society, IPE 166-Under 30 Award
2025- Hendrik teNeues Award- Shortlist
2025- Leica Oskar Barnack Nominee
2025- Taylor Wessing Digital Shortlist 2025
2024- Best Portfolio Award-Silver, Photomeet
2024- OD Photo Prize Shortlist 2024
2024- Taylor Wessing Digital Shortlist 2024
2024- Palm* Photo Prize Shortlist 2024
2021- International Photography Award, BJP 2021
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