Chandan Gomes

Photograph © Chandan Gomes

Chandan Gomes has studied philosophy at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (2009). Emotional and intellectual anxieties drive him as a photographer. He is the recipient of the 2011 India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography, a 2012 Oslo University scholarship to participate in Chobi Mela, 2013 Neel Dongre Award in Photography, the 2014 Foto Visura Spotlight Grant, and the 2016 INK Fellowship. He was nominated for the 2015 Prix Pictet Award and the 2018 Sovereign Asia Art Prize.

Gomes’s artist book, This World of Dew, published by PHOTOINK, was released in 2015 and went on to garner critical acclaim. This World of Dew has been shown at the Benaki Museum, Athens; Parc Des Ateliers, Arles; and Zeytinburnu International Photography Festival, Istanbul; amongst other places. His photo essay There are things I call home was on view at Asia Society Center, Houston, as part of FotoFest 2018 Biennale. Gomes exhibited his latest body of work People You May Know, at Les Recontres d’Arles, in July 2018, as part of the prestigious New Discovery Award. The exhibition was supported by PHOTOINK. Gomes also exhibited at the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale and the 2018 Serendipity Arts Festival. He is among the three finalists in the visual arts category for the prestigious Art Spectrum South Asia Awards 2019. He was invited to the Centre for Documentary Studies, Duke University, to exhibit his work and run workshops on bookmaking and narrative building.

At the time of this writing, Gomes teaches at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communications, Delhi, and Ashoka University, Haryana.

This bio was provided by the artist.