Annalisa Mansukhani is a writer, researcher and curator studying histories of photography and notions of the image in contemporary art and curatorial practices. She read history for her undergraduate degree from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and has a Master’s in art history from Nalanda University. She has previously worked at the Kochi Biennale Foundation. 

Annalisa's writing has been published by platforms such as TAKE on Art Magazine, Write | Art | Connect and Projects/Processes (Serendipity Arts Foundation), Shared Ecologies, Hakara Bilingual, and Nether Quarterly, among others. She is one of the recipients of the first Critical Collective-PhotoSouthAsia Young Writer's Award for lens-based practices. Most recently, she received the Art Scribes Award 2024, supported by the French Institute in India and Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi.

 

As the Programmes Manager for the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in Delhi, she establishes frameworks and activates resources around art and research, spaces of exhibition, critical writing, editorial and public programming. She is currently fascinated by relationships between image, text and interface, and the nature of image-making in contemporary inter-media practices.

She is partial to fat cats, long poems, donuts, and the colour green.

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She lives and works in New Delhi, India.