Dev Dhunsi

Working at the intersection of photography, textile, installation and critical myth-making, Dev Dhunsi’s practice expands the photographic image into sculptural, sonic and ecological space.

Dhunsi combines photographic and textile techniques to investigate how histories are carried, obscured and reconfigured through material, memory and vision. Images are stretched across fabric, submerged in water or set into motion, transforming photography from a static document into an embodied, multisensory experience. Drawing on personal archives, ancestral narratives and diasporic dislocations shaped by his upbringing between Trondheim and Punjab, his work creates space for overlooked or silenced stories, resisting linear time and singular authorship.

Blending myth, documentary traces and speculative gestures, Dhunsi’s installations foreground identity as porous and relational, shaped by cultural, political and historical forces. His work frequently engages queer South Asian mythologies alongside blurred landscapes that interrogate colonial frameworks of land, belonging and visibility.

Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996) is a Norwegian–Indian artist living and working between Oslo and Punjab. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Unmistakably You at Nitja Senter for Samtidskunst, Lillestrøm (2026), presented in conjunction with the release of his publication Mixed (SPBH Editions / Mack Books) and accompanied by an exhibition at SPBH Space, Milan; as well as Encircling Stories at the Centre for Photography, Stockholm (2024), following its initial presentation at MELK, Oslo. His work has also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb during Organ Vida 13th Festival and FUTURES Photography. Dhunsi is a recipient of the Nordic Photobook Award 2024 and was selected for the FUTURES Photography platform in 2023.

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Dev Dhunsi - Unmistakably You

Stockholm

9 Apr - 16 May 2026

Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present the opening of Dev Dhunsi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Unmistakably You , opening on Thursday, 9 April, between 17:00 – 20:00. Unmistakably You...

FEEL FIRST, THINK LATER - Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff, Dev Dhunsi, Minh Ngọc Nguyễn & Sally von Rosen

Stockholm

6 Mar - 26 Apr 2025

We are proud to announce the group exhibition FEEL FIRST, THINK LATER , opening on 6 March, between 17:00 – 20:00. This group exhibition brings together three young artists at...