ASHOK VISH
E-mail: ashokvishfilms@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2010, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences B.A. Economics
2013, New York University
Certificate Program - Filmmaking Intensive (Concentration: Directing, Producing, Editing) Recipient of the Technisphere Award for Outstanding Student Film
WORK
New York Indian Film Festival - Nov/2019 - present. Film Programmer
Durban International Film Festival - Jan 2023 - present. Film Programmer
Nottingham Arts Mela, supported by New Art Exchange + British Council - Aug/2020. Programmer for the Film/video program
1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India – Nov/2016 – Oct/2019. Curatorial Lead
BeFantastic Arts Festival, Dec 2017. Film + Video Art Curator
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2022 ‘A Very Queer Friendship’ recipient of the Generator Art Production Grant through Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India
2022 Recipient of the Fine Art Award through Space118, Mumbai, India
2021 ‘To Kill The One You Love’ one of twenty film projects selected for the NFDC Film Bazaar Co-Production Market, 2021
2021 ‘A Journey to Europe’ Screenwriting Development Lab through the European Union Film Festival
2019 Research Residency in Zurich/Locarno, Switzerland supported by Pro Helvetia
2019 Art Residency in Nottingham, England with New Art Exchange
2018 ‘BangaloResidency Expanded’ – at Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin supported by Goethe Institute, Bangalore 2016 ‘Summer Art Residency’ – 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery supported by Shergil-Sundaram Arts Foundation
EXHIBITIONS/FILM SCREENINGS
2023 VAICA Video Art Festival
2021 ‘Bangalore, Inside/Out’, a photography exhibition curated by Ashok Vish & Sandeep TK under the project 560 grant supported by India Foundation for the Arts – Bangalore, India
2021 ‘Pandemic As Portral’, a series of curated artistic engagements
2020 ‘Children Playing God’ screening at the Sharjah Film Platform organized by the Sharjah Art Foundation –
Sharjah, UAE
2019 ‘Video@Löwenbrau’ at the Migros Museum curated by Irene Müller und Hans-Michael Herzog – Zurich, Switzerland
2019 ‘The Toilets. Geographies of Desire: (a) site & (b) situation’ – group exhibition supported by the K.K. Hebbar Art Foundation. A satellite exhibition during the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018 – Kochi, India
2019 ‘Building Bridges’, at Yangon Arts festival – Yangon, Myanmar
2019 ‘Gender Bender’, curated by Sandbox Collective supported by Goethe Institute, Bangalore at Bangalore International Center – Bangalore, India
2019 Artists Short Film Programme’, part of the Nottingham Arts Mela 2019 – Nottingham, UK
2018 ‘Children Playing God’ screening at New York Indian Film Festival - New York, USA
2018 ‘Children Playing God’ screening at Chicago South Asian Film Festival - Chicago, USA
2018 ‘The First Duty...Is to be Inconspicuous’ work-in-progress preview at Lichtenberg Studios – Berlin, Germany
2018 Khoj ‘PEERS Share programme’ at Khoj International Artists’ Association – New Delhi, India
2018 ‘Building Bridges’, curated by Ushmita Sahu in collaboration with Emergent Art Space, USA at Art Konsult – New Delhi, India 2018 ‘Building Bridges’, curated by Ushmita Sahu at A.M (ART MULTI-DISCIPLINES) – Kolkata, India
2018 ‘Montage’, a video art group exhibition at Art Houz – Bangalore, India
2018 ‘Building Bridges’, curated by Ushmita Sahu at Gallery Sumukha – Bangalore, India
2018 ‘Children Playing God’ screening at Viewing Room, Film Bazaar - Goa, India
2018 ‘Goals Envisioned’, Video/Film program traveling and showing at Birmingham Art Summit – Birmingham, UK
2018 WNDX Moving Image Festival - Winnipeg, Canada
2017 ‘Goals Envisioned’, Video/Film program at Bangalore Fantastic Arts Festival – Bangalore, India
2017 ‘Video Vismaya’, curated by Suresh Jayaram at MaximiliansForum – Munich, Germany
2016 ‘Much to say’, An exhibition of paintings by Bhuvanesh Kumar + film screening by Ashok Vish at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery – Bangalore, India
2014 ‘A Boy Called Boris’ screening at the Chelsea Film Festival - New York, USA
2014 ‘A Boy Called Boris’ screening at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival - Chicago, USA