Anupama Alias Anil

Works
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys II, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys II, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys III, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys III, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys IV, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys IV, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys V, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys V, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys VI, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys VI, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys VII, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys VII, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Interlaced Journeys VIII, 2025
    Interlaced Journeys VIII, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Masked Realities V, 2025
    Masked Realities V, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Masked Realities VI, 2025
    Masked Realities VI, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Masked Realities VII, 2025
    Masked Realities VII, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Memory of Memories, 2025
    Memory of Memories, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Memory of Memories, 2025
    Memory of Memories, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Memory of Memories, 2025
    Memory of Memories, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Script of Memory II, 2025
    The Script of Memory II, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2025
    Untitled, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled Walk Series, 2025
    Untitled Walk Series, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled Walk Series II, 2025
    Untitled Walk Series II, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Witness of Embers, 2025
    Witness of Embers, 2025
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Infinite Realities, 2024
    Infinite Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Infinite Realities, 2024
    Infinite Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Infinite Realities, 2024
    Infinite Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Infinite Realities, 2024
    Infinite Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Infinite Realities, 2024
    Infinite Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Infinite Realities, 2024
    Infinite Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
    The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
    The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
    The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
    The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
    The Fire of Dissolution, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Uncertain Realities, 2024
    The Uncertain Realities, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, The Uncertain Realities of Red, 2024
    The Uncertain Realities of Red, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Witness of Embers, 2024
    Witness of Embers, 2024
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Uncertain Realities, 2023
    Uncertain Realities, 2023
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2023
    Untitled, 2023
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Island of Hope, 2021
    Island of Hope, 2021
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Island of Hope II, 2021
    Island of Hope II, 2021
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Hidden Meaning of the Last Meal, 2019
    Hidden Meaning of the Last Meal, 2019
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2018
    Untitled, 2018
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2018
    Untitled, 2018
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Untitled, 2018
    Untitled, 2018
  • Anupama Alias Anil, Space in the revelation
    Space in the revelation
Biography

 

Anupama Alias Anil (b.1990) focuses on depicting women at a transitional and vulnerable time in their lives: not the adolescent years that have been the focus of her works in the past few years, but the other transitional, in-between years: the ‘middle’ years. In a macro-metaphor, her work focuses on people, transitions, identity, and the ‘in-betweenness’ of existence. Anupama tries to unravel the implied desires and fluctuations of identity that womanhood has thrust upon her. The idea is to not just focus on the universality of womanhood but get to the essence of being a girl first, and a woman later. The intriguing reason behind how Eve was made from Adam’s rib became the genesis of her work, whereby she began exploring human anatomy. The rib cage becomes the spine of Anupama’s works, which has allowed her to examine other body parts, something that helped her embark on a metaphysical journey of self-discovery.

 

She completed her BFA and MFA in Applied Art from Govt. RLV College, Thripunithura, Kochi, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. She also completed an MFA in Painting from S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad (2016). Anupama was part of the Rizq Art Initiative Residency program in Abu Dhabi (2024); recipient of the ‘Art For Hope’ Grant by Hyundai Motor India Foundation (2021); the Sankara Menon Memorial Gold Medal, Lalithakala Akademi, Kerala (2016); the Special Mention Award by Kerala Lalithakala Akademi (2018); a Diamond Jubilee Fellowship from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Kerala (2019); and the Young Artist’s Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India (2012).

 

Her recent participations include Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2024- 2021); ‘Inscapes in search of a place’ curated by Premjish Achari, by LATITUDE 28 at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023); ‘Parallel realities’ group exhibition in Gallery Ekami at Kannur, Kerala (2023); ‘Fabular Futures’, with LATITUDE 28 at Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam (2022); India Art Fair with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2022, 2019); ‘Art For Hope’ by Hyundai Motor India Foundation at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2022);‘Yuva Sumbhava’ by Raza Foundation at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2022);‘Lokame Tharavadu (The World is One Family)’ curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Kochi Biennale Foundation (2021); ‘Between the Lines’ Tribute to Manoj Nair, Gallery 27, Fort Cochin, Kerala (2020); ‘A Page in the Book of My Life’, Pullman in association with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2019); HT Imagine Festival (LATITUDE 28, New Delhi, 2019); India Art Fair 2019 with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2019);  and ‘Babur ki Gai’, co-curated by Bhavna Kakar and Adwait Singh, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2018).