Christopher Kulendran Thomas is an artist of Tamil descent, who spent his formative years in London, after his family left Sri Lanka during the escalating ethnic oppression there. Through immersive film installation, painting and sculpture, Kulendran Thomas’ practice explores lost histories, alternative possibilities and Sri Lanka’s colonial art history. He uses advanced technologies across multiple disciplines and often through fluid collaborations with architects, writers, technologists, designers, musicians and activists from around the world.
Select solo and group exhibitions include Land and Soil, K21, Düsseldorf (2025-2026), Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Australia (2025–2026); Safe Zone, Artspace Sydney (2025–2026); 14th Taipei Biennale (2025–2026); Being Human, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2025); Peace Core, Gagosian, New York (2025); Exhale, Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai (2025); Safe Zone, Wiels, Brussels (2024); For Real, Kunsthalle Zürich (2023); 5th Timisoara Biennial (2023); Another World, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022) and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2022); 2nd Front Triennial, Cleveland (2022); Ground Zero, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2019); New Eelam: Brisbane, Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane (2019); New Eelam: Bristol, Spike Island, Bristol (2019); and New Eelam, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm (2017), 7th Bi-City Biennale, Shenzhen (2017); 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016); 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); and 3rd Dhaka Art Summit (2016), among others.