Anuja Dasgupta
Biography
Anuja Dasgupta is a visual artist, educator, and agri-preneur based in Ladakh, India. She is the recipient of the Inlaks-NIROX Residency in South Africa (2024), the Generator Co-Operative Art Production Fund – Experimenter (2024), the Verzasca Foto Residency – Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia New Delhi (2024), the TOTO Award for Photography (2023), the Prince Claus Seed Award (2021), and the Portrait Prize from the Indian Photography Festival (2017).
Her work has been showcased at platforms such as the Serendipity Arts Festival, India (2024), Swiss Photo Month (2024), »Critical Zones« at the Goethe-Institut New Delhi (2024), the Ladakh Literature Festival (2019), the Kochi-Muziris Students' Biennale (2018), and the Head On Photo Festival, Australia (2018), among others.
Anuja holds a BA in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, and an MA in Visual Art from Ambedkar University, Delhi. In 2017, she was also a Designate Research Fellow through the Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship.
In an image-driven world, Anuja situates her practice in the fundamental processes of image-making. Her work emerges from the vantage point of Ladakh, located in the remote roof of the Indian Himalayan range. Insights drawn from the region’s history, geomorphology, and ecology inform her camera-less and analog photography, bookmaking, and mixed-media installations.
She seeks to develop new perspectives on the climate crisis by working with image-making techniques that produce visual notes of nature’s often unspoken rhythms—crafting experiences that evoke the profound, and now endangered, interconnectedness of life.