ABOUT
Bindi Vora is a London-based interdisciplinary artist and curator of Kenyan Indian heritage. Through photography, collage and archival materials, her practice explores postcolonial histories through personal and found images, creating layered works that examine diaspora and reinterpretation.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at The Photographers’ Gallery, 180 Studios, Victoria and Albert Museum, Benaki Museum, Athens and elsewhere. She has been commissioned by Hospital Rooms to create permanent works for Devon Partnership NHS Trust and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, and by FT Weekend Magazine – My London. In 2023, her first major photobook Mountain of Salt, published by Perimeter Books, was shortlisted for the Aperture Foundation x Paris Photo First Book Award. Her works are held in over 20 public collections including the Government Art Collection, Imperial Health Charity, National Museums NI and MoMA Library Special Collections. Between 2023-24 Vora was artist-in-residence at National Museums NI as part of the 20/20 programme led by the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute.
Alongside her artistic practice, Vora is Senior Curator at Autograph, where she develops exhibitions, commissions and public programmes exploring race, identity and social justice through photography and lens-based practices. She has curated a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions most recently Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire (2026); I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies (2025); Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories (2025) amongst others. Her writing has appeared in publications including Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (Thames & Hudson), The 80s – Photographing Britain (Tate); FOAM, British Journal of Photography amongst others. She lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
2010-2013 First Class Honours, BA (Hons) Photographic Arts, University of Westminster
2009-2010 Distinction, Art & Design, London College of Fashion, University of Arts London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council England (UK)
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
The Box, Plymouth (UK)
Bradford District Museums and Galleries (UK)
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (UK)
Compton Verney (UK)
Freelands Foundation (UK)
Government Art Collection (UK)
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation (UK)
Harris Museum (UK)
The Hepworth Wakefield (UK)
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (UK)
The Hyman Collection (UK)
Imperial Health Charity (UK)
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum (UK)
Kettle’s Yard (UK)
Leeds Art Gallery (UK)
The Lightbox, Woking (UK)
Manchester Art Gallery (UK)
Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art (UK)
National Disability Arts Collection & Archive (UK)
National Museums NI – Ulster Museum (UK)
Pallant House Gallery (UK)
Sheffield Museums Trust (UK)
University of the Arts, London (UK)
Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool (UK)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK)
and private collections across the world
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection at the Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Self Publish Be Happy Collection at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
The Hellenic Center for Photography, Athens, Greece
Indie Photobook Library at The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
On Landscape Project, UK
The Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University, London
Camberwell College of Arts Special collections at University of Arts, London, UK
University of Westminster, London UK
Norwich University, UK
State Library of Victoria, Australia
Tate Library, UK
and private collections across Europe
COMMISSIONS
2023 – Financial Times (FT) Weekend Magazine ‘My London’
2022 – Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust at Springfield Hospital, London with the Hospital Rooms
2019 – The Junipers, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) / Hospital Rooms x Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Exeter, Devon
2010 – Bling! Jewellery Stories from the East End – University of Arts London / Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
RESIDENCY
2023-2024 – 20/20 Project at the National Museums Northern Ireland led by the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute. Funded by Freelands Foundation, Arts Council England and UAL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2027 – National Museums Northern Ireland – April – October 2027
2026 – Foto Cymru 2026 | Chapter Art Centre, Wales – 3 October 2026 – January 2027
2026 – The Powers Surge Keeping Ghost Inside, WHATIFTHEWORLD (SA), 14 Feb – 21 March 2026 (solo)
2025 – 20/20 Futures, London College of Fashion, East Bank, 6 November 2025 – 17 January 2026
2025 – 20/20 Reflections, Chelsea Space, 10 July – 25 September 2025
2024 – Memory/Myth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 6 June – 16 July 2024
2024 – Back to the Future, Peckham24, London, 17-26 May 2024
2024 – The Light Between, WHAT IF THE WORLD, Cape Town, 11 May – 30 June 2024
2024 – Paris Photo x Aperture First Book Award, Tenderbooks, London, May 2024
2024 – Paris Photo x Aperture First Book Award, Printed Matter, New York, January 2024
2023 – Paris Photo x Aperture First Book Award, Paris Photo, November 2023
2023 – Writing her own Script. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection, Photo London, May 2023
2023 – Held in Hope: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and COVID-19, St Mary’s, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London, from February 2023
2022 – ‘No Place Is An Island’, Photo50, London Art Fair, 19-23 January 2022
2022 – ‘Visual Politics: Recent Acquisitions by the Hyman Collection’, 10 January – 1 April 2022
2021 – ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward’, St Mary’s Hospital (UK), Imperial Health Charity
2021 – A Different Mirror. Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Photo Oxford, St Johns College (15 Oct – 15 Nov 2021)
2021 – ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward’, Charing Cross Hospital (UK), Imperial Health Charity
2021 – ‘Control’, Format21 International Photography Festival (March 2021)
2020 – ‘Arriving & Departing’, 7th Singapore International Photography Festival (Nov 20 – Jan 21)
2019 – The Junipers & Jasmine Lodge Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (3-30 May 2019)
2018 – ‘A Shade of Pale’, 180 The Strand, London (16 May – 3 June 2018)
2017 – ‘Hyperanalogue’ Geekender, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2015 – Business as Usual: Self Publish, Be Happy in Residence at The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2015 – Material Light, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia
2014 – On Landscape #1, Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Road, London
2014 – Capricious presents ‘The Louder’, Kulturhaus Palazzo, Switzerland
2014 – Atlas of Places do not Exist, Villa del Arte Galleries @ Art Stage Singapore
2013 – enter13, Waterman’s Gallery, London
2013 – Material Light, London Gallery West, London
2013 – Making Home: The Ugandan Asian Story, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London
2013 – University of Westminster Degree Show @ Free Range, T1 Truman Brewery, London
2010 – BLING! Jewellery Stories from the East End, Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, London
2010 – London College of Fashion, Art & Design Show, Mare Street, London
PUBLISHED WORKS & SELECTED REVIEWS
2026 – Ghosh, R., ‘On the Familial Turn in Photography’, Frieze, Issue 258.
2026 – Carlin, B., Encounters with Photobooks. Leuven University Press.
2025 – Liberty, M.N., ‘Is the Age of Oversized Photobooks Over?’, Aperture, Issue 257.
2024 – Jansen, C., ‘Precious Absences: I Dreamt of Lost Vocabularies’, 20/20 / UAL Decolonising Arts Institute.
2023 – ‘Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt’, Review by Renee Hudson, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2023/January 2024
2023 – A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2023 PhotoBook Awards, Aperture, November 2023
2023 – Announcing the 2023 Photobook Awards Shortlist, Aperture (October 2023)
2023 – Note 11: A dictionary suggests itself, August 2023
2023 – Mountain of Salt – Bindi Vora in Conversation with Raquel Villar-Pérez, May 2023
2023 – Human skulls and grass bums! Pioneering female photographers – in pictures, Guardian, May 2023
2023 – Looking at London through the eyes of three contemporary photographers, FT Weekend magazine, May 2023
2022 – Interview with Rachel Seegal Hamilton:’Layers of Rhetoric’, Aesthetica Magazine (July 2022)
2021 – Feature: Firecracker – Mountain of Salt’ (November 2021)
2021 – Feature: Trigger: Issue 3 ‘Call for Care’ by FOMU, Antwerp ‘Sara Knelman on Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt‘ (November 2021)
2021 – Feature: Over Journal: Issue 2 ‘Sue Rainsford on Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt‘ – July 2021
2021 – Guardian ‘Mountain of Salt: a Covid commentary from found images – in pictures’, July 2021
2021 – Feature: The Wick Culture – ‘Spotlight Series’, March 2021
2021 – Feature: British Journal of Photography
2020 – Interview: Design India, Issue 122 – The Asian Curator, Page 60-63
2016 – Loose Associations Vol. 2, Issue II, April 2016
2015 – Review: ‘In the blue light we failed’ by Anika Sabin
2014 – Capricious Issue 15: Boundaries, January 2014
2014 – PYLOT, Issue 0, January 2014
2013 – A Story Behind a Photograph, The Photographers’ Gallery, September 2013
AWARDS
2024 – Shorlisted for PHMuseum Women Photographers Grant
2023 – Shortlisted for Paris Photo x Aperture First Book Award
2022 – Shortlisted for Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, Canada
2021 – Shortlisted for FORMAT21, Format International Photography Festival
2020 – Shortlisted for the 7th Singapore International Photography Festival
2019 – Shortlisted for Denton’s Art Prize
2015 – Shortlisted for Athen’s Photo Festival
2015 – Shortlisted for PDN’s 30 2015: New and Emerging Photographer’s to Watch
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