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Anni Kumari (b.1983/Jamshedpur/ India) studied BA (Hons.)Political Science at Miranda House, Delhi University (2002-05) and pursued BFA (Painting) and MFA (Painting) from the College of Art, Delhi, (2007-2013). Her works have been exhibited in curated group shows in India, including, ‘Spiralling into the absurd’, curated by Chhavi Jain, Anant Art (2021), ‘All that is life’, curated by Saloni Doshi, Space 118 (2021), ‘Shifting Positions’, India Art Fair (2020), ‘Mirrored Questions’, Art District XIII(2019), ‘Again & yet again’, curated by Shruti Ramalingaiah, OED Gallery, Kochi(2017. She recently had a solo show titled -‘Algorithms’ jointly organized by Anant Art +Apparao Galleries (2021). Additionally, she is a visiting professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Ashoka University, Sonipat, and has been a grantee at Sahapedia-UNESCO (2018), Artreach India (2015/17), Lalit Kala Akademi (2013), Ministry of culture, GOI (2014-16) and the University Grants Commission (2015). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Piramal Art Foundation, Thane, Maharashtra (2016). Through the process of repetitive pattern making, Anni explores the complexities of contemporary human relationships and their constant transmutation. In her works, rhythmic patterns based on mathematical algorithms, ideas and concepts (like the Prime Numbers and the Fibonacci series), become symbols of complex interdependent structures and passages that often relate to vast geographical, sometimes cosmological spaces.