For much of the past decade, Christopher Kulendran Thomas (b. 1979) has been using advanced technologies across multiple disciplines to question the myths of Western individualism. His paintings metabolize the colonial art history that came to dominate in Sri Lanka after his family, who are Tamil, left escalating ethnic violence there. Kulendran Thomas often exhibits these paintings with video installations that fuse propaganda and counterpropaganda into a speculative vortex of alternate histories.

Christopher Kulendran Thomas lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Select solo and group exhibitions include 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.