Spandita Malik (b. 1995) is an Indian visual artist living and working in New York City. Her work addresses the current global socio-political state of affairs, with a focus on women’s rights and gendered violence. Malik specializes in process-based photography, particularly photographic surface embroideries and collaborations with women in India. Her work in expanded documentary and social practice consciously emerges from the idea of decolonizing the eye and the aesthetic surrounding documentary photography in India.

Malik’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, 21c Museum Hotels, Rockefeller Capital Management, Jane Lombard Gallery, and the Sharjah Art Foundation, among others. She has received prestigious awards and grants, including the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize, Google’s Creator Labs Photo Fund, the Women Photograph Project Grant, The 30: New and Emerging Photographers Award, the En Foco Photography Fellowship, and the Firecracker Photographic Grant.

Malik has participated in residencies, including the Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, the LMCC Workspace Program, the Charlotte Street Foundation Residency, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Baxter St Workspace Residency, and the PES Feminist Incubator Residency. Malik’s work has been featured in Artsy, Art Spiel, the British Journal of Photography, Buzzfeed, Crafts Magazine, Elephant Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Marie Claire, Musée Magazine, The Guardian, The Times (UK), and The Washington Post.

She received her MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 2019.

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Robert Mann Gallery

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