Priya Suresh Kambli

Priya Kambli received her BFA at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and an MFA from the University of Houston. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Kambli’s work inadvertently examines the question asked by her son Kavi at age three; did she belong to two different worlds, since she spoke two different languages? The essence of his question continues to be a driving force in her art making. In her work, Kambli has always strived to understand the formation and erasure of identity that is an inevitable part of the migrant experience, exploring the resulting fragmentation of family, identity, and culture. Kambli’s artwork has been exhibited, published, collected and reviewed in the national and international photographic community. Her work has been exhibited at the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Arts, Overland Park, KS; Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA; National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, 2021 London, United Kingdom. Her work has been published in Aperture – summer issue #251- Being and Becoming: Asian in America; PIX photography quarterly magazine Passages: a subcontinental imaginary; Photography: A Feminist History by Emma Lewis.