Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
Waswo X. Waswo (b. 1953, Wisconsin, U.S.A) 
Waswo X. Waswo’s photographic self-portraiture and miniature paintings have been a tactic of mild humour employed to signal the self-awareness of his practice. He has had a long history of collaborating with traditional miniature painters where he lives, in Udaipur, Rajasthan. He currently collaborates with Dalpat and Banti Jingar, and Shankar Kumawat and Chirag Kumawat. Waswo's books include India Poems: The Photographs, published by Gallerie Publishers in 2006, Men of Rajasthan, published by Serindia Contemporary in 2011(hardcover 2014), Photowallah published by Tasveer, India, in 2016, Gauri Dancers, Mapin, 2019 and Karkhana: A Studio in Rajasthan, Mapin, 2022.

Education
Waswo X. Waswo studied at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, The Milwaukee Center for Photography, and Studio Marangoni, The Centre for Contemporary Photography in Florence, Italy. He has spent over twenty years in India studying and working with traditional artists.

Select Exhibitions/Awards
Waswo in Selected Anthologies: 
Third Eye Photography: and Ways of Seeing, edited by Alka Pande, Speaking Tiger, 2019
Lessons from Hell, Printing and Punishment in India, Christopher Pinney, Marg, 2018
Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice, edited by Aileen Blaney and Chinar Shah, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
Pages of a Mind: Raja Ravi Varma Life And Expressions, Vaishnavi Ramanathan, Piramal Art Foundation, 2016 
Positions, Asia Critique, Vol 24:2, edited by Tani Barlow, Duke University Press, 2016
Feeling Photography, edited by Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu, Duke University Press, 2014


Gallery Representation
Gallery Espace, New DelhiLatitude 28, New Delhi Galerie Isa, Mumbai

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These postcard-size gouaches play upon several well-known themes that permeate our more elaborate miniature paintings. Our themes are most always isolation and alienation, yet presented with tongue-in-cheek humor. The little man with the fedora hat was initially meant to represent myself, but has become a sort of Everyman, that represents a kind of naive innocence that make him both laughable and endearing.


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