Aqui Thami
Aqui Thami is a Thami artist, graphic designer and community organiser from Darjeeling, India. Her practice spans installation, drawing, printmaking, publishing, performance poster-making, zine creation, photography, publishing and socially engaged art. She is the founder of Sister Library, a feminist community library and publishing initiative based in Mumbai, and a co-founder of Bombay Underground and Dharavi Art Room.
Aqui Thami
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- 1989
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- graphic designer · printmaker · artist
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Aqui Thami is a Thami artist, graphic designer and community organiser from Darjeeling, India. Her practice spans installation, drawing, printmaking, publishing, performance poster-making, zine creation, photography, publishing and socially engaged art. She is the founder of Sister Library, a feminist community library and publishing initiative based in Mumbai, and a co-founder of Bombay Underground and Dharavi Art Room.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
In 2023, she received the Hublot Design Prize in recognition of the social impact of her work.
aqui Thami was born in Darjeeling, India, and belongs to the Thami people, an Indigenous community of the eastern Himalayas. She studied at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Career
Career
aqui Thami works across installation, printmaking, artist books, publishing and participatory projects. Her work addresses themes including Indigenous identity, feminism, migration, labour and ecology. She founded Sister Library, a feminist community library and publishing initiative based in Mumbai. She is also a co-founder of Bombay Underground, an artist collective focused on independent publishing, and helped establish the Bombay Zine Fest. Between 2018 and 2019, Thami was a V&A Research Institute (VARI) Offsite Artist in Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Aqui Thami is recorded as graphic designer, printmaker and artist.
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1989
Aqui Thami born.
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Awards
• Hublot Design Prize (2023) • Inlaks Fine Art Award (2018) • Prince Claus Fund Next Generation Art Prize (2019)
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- 1.Things Unsaid and Unheard with Aqui Thami, VARI Artist in Residence. Victoria and Albert Museum. 23 November 2018.
- 2.Things Unsaid and Unheard with Aqui Thami, VARI Artist in Residence. Victoria and Albert Museum. 23 November 2018.
- 3.Sister Library. Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art.
- 4.Women Focus on Dharavi. The Indian Express. 16 October 2013.
- 5.Hublot announces the winners of the 8th edition of the Hublot Design Prize, recognising committed design. Hublot. 3 October 2023.
- 6.Sister Library. Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art.
- 7.Williams, Jessie. Meeting the founder of India’s first community-owned feminist library. Dazed. 3 June 2019.
- 8.Sister Library. Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art.
- 9.Aqui Thami. Create London.
- 10.Things Unsaid and Unheard with Aqui Thami, VARI Artist in Residence. Victoria and Albert Museum. 23 November 2018.
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