Priya Suresh Kambli
Biography
Project Title: The idea of home follows me wherever I go
Priya Suresh Kambli, born 1975 in Mumbai, India, is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photographic media and installation. Kambli received her BFA from University of Lafayette, followed by her MFA from University of Houston.
For the past two decades Kambli has worked with a fragmentary archive, her family inheritance brought with her from India to the United States when she was 18 years old. This inheritance included family photographs, heirlooms, and documents packed in a suitcase that weighed 45 kilograms. In her work she has revisited, rephotographed, and recontextualized her archive to create personal work addressing her migrant narrative and feminist practice.
She is the winner of 2025 Leica Women Foto Project Award; Creator Labs Photo Fund, Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs. She is the 2025 MacDowell Fellow and has participated in other residencies including at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Light Work and Visual Studies Workshop. Her work has been published in Aperture, Musee Magazine and Art India. Her work has been exhibited at Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and collected by Duke University, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.