ANEETA MITHA is a Bay Area-based visual artist using photography, film, and new media to interrogate concepts of identity, visibility, and political complacency. Along with their own practice, they are also one-half of KANTA Collaborative, an experimental art collaboration addressing issues such as climate change and white supremacy.
Reach out: aneetam@gmail.comCV
Education
2011, San Francisco State University, Bachelor of Arts in Social and Environmental Justice with a concentration in Race and Resistance Studies.
Exhibitions & Screenings
2021, Among Sirens, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, U.K.
2021, Among Sirens, Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois.
2020, Among Sirens, Ultracinema, Mexico City, Mexico.
2020, Among Sirens, Moviate Underground Film Festival, Pennsylvania.
2020, Among Sirens, Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2020, Among Sirens, Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, Trinidad & Tobago.
2017, Standing Rock Women’s March, Reels for Radical, New York.
2017, Standing Rock Women’s March, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts.
2017, Standing Rock Women’s March, State of Emergency, New Museum Guerrilla Exhibition, New York.
2017, A Body, A Home, Flux Gallery, New York.
2015, Embodied, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.
Memberships, Awards, and Residencies
2023-2024, Jury Panelist, Creative Awards, Bay Area Creative Arts Foundation.
2021, Jury Panelist, Impact Projects grants, California Arts Council
2020, Up Next, Diversify Photo.
2018, Aftermath: Explorations of Loss & Grief, Foreword Indies Book of the Year.
2016-2017, Artist-in-Residence, More Art.
2015, Year-long Grant and Fellowship Recipient, Brooklyn Community Pride Center.
2011, Community Engagement Fellowship: Palestine, San Francisco State University.
Teaching
2018, Sound in Film, Teaching Artist, Skopelos International Film Festival for Youth.
2015, Embodying Queer Experience, Teaching Artist, Urban Arts Partnership.
2014, Photography for Environmental Justice, Guest Teaching Artist, Urban Tilth.
2011, Western Media Representation and Palestinian Sovereignty workshop series, Guest Lecturer, An-Najah University.
Bibliography
Radix Media, Aftermath: Explorations of Loss & Grief, 2018.
Theonia, Charles and Julieta Salgado, Femmescapes, Vol. 2, 2017.