Sindhu Thirumalaisamy (b.1990, India) received a professional diploma in Digital Video Production from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India, in 2012 and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, USA, in 2018. She is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019) and the Whitney Independent Study Program (2020).
Thirumalaisamy’s films, installations, and compositions engage everyday spaces and civic infrastructures—such as hospitals, parks, streets, kitchens, temples, mosques, lakes and roadsides— as sites of collective resistance and care. Her 2019 film, ‘The Lake and The Lake,’ premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), won the jury award for Best Documentary at the 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and was nominated for awards at BlackStar Film Festival and Open City Documentary Festival. Thirumalaisamy is the recipient of awards and fellowships including the MacDowell Fellowship, the NYSCA/ NYFA Fellowship in Film/Video, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Fellowship. Thirumalaisamy lives and works in Houston, USA.
