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. From 2019 - 2025, she was the Programmes Manager for the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in Delhi, and oversaw research, exhibition-making, critical writing, and editorial and public programming.

Annalisa's writing has been published by platforms such as Zubaan Books, Jnanapravaha Mumbai, 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. In 2024, she received the Art Scribes Award, supported by the French Institute in India and Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi.

 

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.