Vishal Kumaraswamy is a Bengaluru, India based artist-curator working across text, film, sound, performance and computational arts. He employs experimental technologies to create media-based works addressing critical concerns around Caste, Race and Technology. He has an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London and his works have been shown at The Venice Biennale’s Research Pavilion, CCS Bard College, Contemporary Calgary, The Royal College of Art, SITE Gallery Sheffield, HKW Berlin and the Rencontres d'Arles 2023. Vishal has upcoming exhibitions at PARI, Sydney in 2024 and his works are scheduled to appear in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies.

Vishal has been in residence with the US Consulate General Mumbai, Contemporary Calgary in Alberta, SAVAC Toronto, Vital Capacities videoclub UK, Onassis AiR and The Singapore Art Museum. He is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts Transmitter Delhi X Darwin Grant, the Warehouse421 Artistic Research Grant and is a current 2022-2024 Research Associate at the CCA Derry~Londonderry.

Vishal’s independent curatorial practice is primarily concerned with developing anti-caste curatorial frameworks to foreground a range of subaltern practices. He is the inaugural guest curator at Arts House, a City of Melbourne institution for 2023 & 2024. Vishal has previously presented projects with the Wrong Biennale & Sluice Biennial and is a 4th of Now You Have Authority, a collaborative practice through which he has curated exhibitions, residencies, and delivered workshops at the Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange Program and Tanzfest Aarau. He is a 3rd of Indefinite Leave to Remain, a study-friendship along with artists, writers and curators Moad Musbahi and Virgil B/G Taylor.