CAMP

Biography

CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Mumbai in 2007 by Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand. Their fundamental work in video and film, electronic media and public art forms over the past 15 years, has shown how deep technical experimentation and artistic form can meet while extracting new qualities and experiences from contemporary life and materials.
From their home base in Mumbai, they co-host the online archives pad.ma (est. 2008) and indiancine.ma (est. 2013) and run a rooftop cinema for the past 14 years.

CAMP’s artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including recent solo exhibitions at the Nam June Paik Art Center (2021); Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels and De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); documenta 13 (2012) and documenta 14 film programme (2017); on the streets and markets of Bengaluru, San Jose, Dakar, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Kolkata, Kabul, Delhi, Ljubljana, Sharjah and Mumbai. They have also participated in the biennials of Shanghai, Gwangju, Taipei, Singapore, Liverpool, Chicago, Lahore, Sharjah (2009, 2011, 2013) and Kochi-Muziris as well as film platforms, such as the BFI London Film Festival, Viennale, FID Marseille, Flaherty Seminar and the Anthology Film Archives and in art institutions, such as Khoj, Sarai-CSDS, KNMA, Lalit Kala Akademi and NGMA New Delhi, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, MoMA, New Museum, Queens Museum and e-flux New York, Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries and Gasworks London, HKW Berlin, Ars Electronica, Linz, MoMA Warsaw, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Palestinian Museum and Birzeit.

They have received the 7th Nam June Paik Centre Prize (2020).