Poulomi Desai

Poulomi Desai is a self-taught, outsider, multi-media artist since 1980, when she set up Hounslow Arts Co-op at the age of 14. Desai was born in Hackney, London, England. Originally inspired by a street theatre background, her works are performative, textual, image based, and acoustic. She works with collaborative working processes which evolve through research, learning and action to examine the elusive, creating large scale photographs, performances and outdoor sound installations. Commissions and Exhibitions include The Serpentine Gallery, London, The Science Museum, London, The Queens Museum, New York, The Oxford Gallery, Kolkatta, and The Photographers Gallery, London. In 2010, she set up the Usurp Art Gallery and Studios.

Books include "Red Threads" (published by Millivres), "Terrorists Assemblages" (Published by Duke University Press) "Out of Place" (published by Raw Nerve Books), "Different" (published by Phaidon). Creative Camera, Dazed and Confused, British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, and the New York Times.