Family Pictures
Priya Suresh Kambli
September 5-November 14, 2025
Opening Reception: September 5, 6-9pm
Free and open to the public
Aurora PhotoCenter, Main Gallery
1125 Brookside Avenue, Suite C9, Indianapolis
At age 18, a couple years after the death of her parents, Priya Suresh Kambli moved from India to the United States, with all her possessions, including a treasured collection of family photographs, in one suitcase. Since then, Kambli has navigated a sense of belonging in two worlds, with her family photographs acting as stepping stones across continents and generations. First installed at Mulvane Art Museum in 2025, the exhibition Family Pictures brings together 15 years of Kambli’s work as she connects to family, culture, and heritage through photographs, both new and old.
In conjunction with her Aurora exhibition, Family Pictures, Priya Suresh Kambli will lead an Aurora workshop on September 6, 1-4pm that explores advanced techniques in cyanotype. Please click here to learn more and register for the workshop, or visit aurora photo.org/workshops.
Priya Suresh Kambli, born 1975 in Mumbai, India, is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photographic media and installation. Kambli received her BFA from University of Lafayette, followed by her MFA from University of Houston.
For the past two decades Kambli has worked with a fragmentary archive, her family inheritance brought with her from India to the United States when she was 18 years old. This inheritance included family photographs, heirlooms, and documents packed in a suitcase that weighed 45 kilograms. In her work she has revisited, rephotographed, and recontextualized her archive to create personal work addressing her migrant narrative and feminist practice.
She is the recipient of the 2025 Howard Foundation fellowship; winner of 2025 Leica Women Foto Project Award; Creator Labs Photo Fund, Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs. She is the 2025 MacDowell Fellow and has participated in other residencies including at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Light Work and Visual Studies Workshop. Her work has been published in Aperture, Musee Magazine and Art India. Her work has been exhibited at Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and collected by Duke University, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Annual operating support for Aurora PhotoCenter provided by the City of Indianapolis through the Indy Arts Council. Additional annual support provided by the Efroymson Family Fund, Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Inc., Aurora Members, and donors who believe in Aurora’s mission.