Shumona Goel

Shumona Goel, born in 1977 in India, studied film, sociology, and anthropology. As an experimental filmmaker, she works with 16mm film, slide projections, and VHS cassettes. Her work has been screened at numerous film festivals and museums like the Tate Modern and the Guggenheim. Goel collaborated with Heredia for I Am Micro (2012), which received a national award from the Indian government. Atreyee (2003, short), John & Jane (2005, co-prod), I am micro (2010, co-dir), an Old Dog's Diary (2015, short, co-dir) Shumona Goel who is a city-based artist working in film, video, and photography.

She completed her BA in Film from Bard College, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , and She has directed and produced several documentaries, short films, and commercials. Her works have a robust connection to her personal experiences and situations and address migration, identity, and therefore the dislocation Janus-faced by the Indian Diaspora. Shumona Goel is a Mumbai-based experimental filmmaker. The recipients of the emerging artist Award 2008 were chosen by an independent jury consisting of artists Atul Dodiya, Subodh Gupta, and Shilpa Gupta, and art historians/critics Annapurna Garimella and Anshuman Dasgupta. The artists are selected after two rounds of short-listing from over 350 applicants from everywhere India. The jury’s criteria for selection was to seek out the two artists whose language is both personal and deals with questions about the visual art sector. They also explained that Sandip Pisalkar stood out for his highly experimental and fresh approach towards the medium of sculpture, and Shumona Goel was recognized for her unique handling of the video as a medium in today’s context of visual arts.