Spandita Malik is a visual artist from India. Her work concerns the current global socio-political state of affairs with a particular emphasis on women’s rights and gendered violence. Malik specializes in process-based work in photography, and recently she has incorporated photographic surface embroideries in collaboration with women across northern India. Malik’s work in expanded documentary and social-practice consciously intends to decolonize the eye and the aesthetic surrounding India’s documentary photography.

Awards Malik has won include the Women Photograph Project Grant, En Foco Photography Fellowship, Firecracker Photographic Grant, and The 30: New and Emerging Photographers Award. Her residencies include the Baxter St Workspace Residency, Charlotte Street Foundation Residency, Feminist Incubator Residency, Silver Arts Projects Residency, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. She has exhibited her work at Jane Lombard Gallery, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Arts, Rockefeller Capital Management, Sharjah Art Foundation, and Somerset House-Photo London. Malik’s work has appeared in Artsy, Art Spiel, Buzzfeed, Crafts Magazine, Elephant Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Marie Claire, Musée Magazine, The Times (London) and Washington Post. The British Journal of Photography named her among their “Ones to Watch 2020.” She received her MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 2019 and lives in New York City.

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