Aparna Nori (b.1975) is a photographer and visual artist based between Singapore and Bangalore, India. Aparna draws upon personal memory to have a dialogue with the quotidian. Her response is articulated through a range of mediums including alternative photographic processes, installations, video, digital photography and the book form.
Aparna is a member of Women Photograph.
As a pedagogic extension to her practice, she continues to facilitate workshops to teach photography, bookmaking and alternative photographic processes.
Exhibitions
2024 Festival Diecixdieci, Gonzaga, Italy.
2024 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens.
2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast.
2022 ‘Memory is my Sixth Sense’, Objectifs Center for Film and Photography, Singapore.
2021 Unsealed Chamber: The Transient Image’, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi.
2020 ‘Being in a State of Salax’, Studio Kānike, Bangalore.
2020 ‘Self Portrait for Deitta’, Deitta Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar.
2019 ‘Mettle’ Gallery Katte, Bangalore.
2015 ‘Portraits of the City’, Vismaya Art Gallery, Bangalore.
Art Book Fairs
2024 Printed Matter Art Book Fair (New York), Athens Art Book Fair, Singapore Art Book Fair.
2022 Sharjah Art Book Fair (Sharjah), Rencontres d’Arles (France), Miss Read Festival (Berlin), Fanzineist Vienna, Singapore Art Book Fair (Singapore), Bombay Underground Festival (Mumbai), Singapore International Photo Festival (Singapore), 'Play' Zine Festival (Bangalore), IFBE (Mumbai).
Grants & Awards
2024 Winner, Belfast Photo Festival.
2024 Shortlist for 'How To Climb A Tree' at Diecixdieci Photography Festival, Italy.
2023 Runners Up, Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant 2023, for the artist prototype of ‘How To Climb a Tree’.
2021 Pandemic as Portal Grant, 1 Shanti Road Gallery (collective grant with my artist colleagues at Kānike, Bangalore).
2020 Sahapedia Frames Photography Grant.
Workshops & Residencies
2024 Artist in Residence at DblSpace, Singapore.
2023 Reading Photographs with artist Rola Khayyat, T:>Works, Singapore.
2022 Women in Film and Photography Residency, Objectifs Center for Film and Photography, Singapore.
2022 Photobook as an Object workshop with Yumi Goto at Jakarta International Photo Festival, Jakarta.
2021 Knots & Crossings- Exploring Post humanist approaches, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA).
2018 Building and Editing narratives with Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura, Experimenter Learning Program, Kolkata.
Publications/ Talks
2025 The Photobook Symposium, Photo South Asia, India International Center, Delhi.
2024 Artist talk, Objectifs Bookstore, Singapore.
2024 [Collected on Paper] artist panel with Hong Shu-ying, Objectifs Center for Film & Photography.
2024 Ep8: The Photobook Podcast.
2023 Between the Sheets, an interview with Jojo Library on the artist book '24 Slides'.
2023 Sub:version, Academic Journal of RV College of Architecture.
2022 To Forget To Remember, Hākārā Journal.
2021 Sahapedia Journal.
Select Clients
MIT Technology Review/ Bloomberg Asia/ Harvard Alumni Bulletin/ John Doe/ Lonely Planet magazine/ Forbes India/ Condenast Traveler/ Phantom Ideas/ GQ India/ Veeville Consulting/ TravelPlus Magazine/ Magna Publishing/ Open magazine among others.