Anusha Vikram

Biography

Anusha Vikram holds an undergraduate degree in Painting and a postgraduate degree in Art History and Visual Studies. Her master’s research explored transcultural artistic practices through the work of Russian immigrant artist Nicholas Roerich. Her broader interests include landscapes, popular culture, migration, transculturality, and South Asian art and visual culture.

Her curatorial approach centers on the archive—not just as a source of objects, but as a space of meaning and experience. She is committed to making archival materials accessible and engaging, not simply as curated exhibits, but as archival entities brought into public view.

In 2021, she was selected for the Getty Graduate Internship Programme, where she worked at the Getty Research Institute in the Content and Digital Strategy Department. There, she explored archival collections and created the Google Arts & Culture exhibition At the Crossroads: Qandahar in Images and Empires in collaboration with the Aga Khan Trust. Although the physical exhibition was canceled due to political instability in Afghanistan, the digital version ensured global access to these rare images. At the GRI, she also created content strategy for video works such as I Am Denilson, which offered a layered understanding of Denilson Baniwa’s contemporary artistic interventions with Spanish colonial prints of Indigenous peoples.

At the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), she led a digitisation project of film materials and curated multimedia exhibitions on themes like disco and romance. These exhibitions combined nostalgia with critical research—exploring topics such as disco’s links to space exploration and gender dynamics in Hindi cinema’s romantic narratives.

As a Collections Specialist, she aims to highlight the richness of archival material while championing education and accessibility. She believes the archive must be curated in its own right, before it becomes content in an exhibition.

Anusha Vikram, Collections Specialist at the Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore, India, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation.