Exhibitions
A record of exhibitions, screenings, festivals, and public presentations of Nayanahari Abeynayake’s work.
Her photographs have travelled through galleries, universities, cultural institutes, festivals, and community spaces in Sri Lanka, India, France, and the United Kingdom.
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Artful Struggles: Contemporary Sri Lankan
A group exhibition marking the second anniversary of Sri Lanka’s 2022 people’s protest movement through contemporary art.
Artful Struggles: Contemporary Sri Lankan Art
A contemporary Sri Lankan art exhibition reflecting on the Aragalaya/Porattam and the role of visual art in sustaining political memory.
The People’s Voice is Louder
As a spontaneous reaction to the intensifying socio-political current realities in Sri Lanka the Goethe-Institut Chennai and Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Chennai Photo Biennale have selected four emerging photographers with an ongoing documentary practice. We are supporting them by awarding the photographers with small grants to continue their ongoing practice, documenting the multifold economic hardships, the people’s protest movement and other topics of current relevance in their respective surroundings.
The selection of photographers was made, taking into account the desire to support photographers with potential and an interesting practice, from a variety of locations across the country and keeping to a gender balance.
The People’s Voice is Louder
A Chennai Photo Biennale and Goethe-Institut exhibition sharing lens-based stories from Sri Lanka’s economic and political crisis.
The People’s Voice is Louder
A film screening and panel discussion on Sri Lanka’s 2022 crisis, created with four Sri Lankan lens-based artists.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
Presented as part of the “Wedikawen Mahapolowata” art festival, the exhibition used quiet, striking images to speak about humanity and social equality.
These are not dew drops of Jaffna
A solo photographic exhibition reflecting on post-war Sri Lanka, social equality, and the human cost of discrimination.
Sacred Space & Galle Fort
A joint exhibition with Dominic Sansoni, bringing together photographic work rooted in Galle and its spaces.
Galle My Home
A free Galle Literary Festival exhibition of photographs of Galle and the Fort by Nayanahari Abeynayake.