Bangalore-based Malayali artist Anup Mathew Thomas has won the Han Nefkens Foundation-Bangkok Art and Culture Centre Award for Contemporary Art.
Anup, who hails from Kottayam, was chosen for the award by an international jury for ‘his creative inquiry, which almost transcends the boundaries of photography.’ The jury also commended ‘his patient, methodical approach to the painstaking process of research and documentation over a period of time.’
The award carries a cash prize of $15,000 towards the production of new work as well as residency and an exhibition at Bangkok. Anup had won the Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, last year, a press note said.