Ajai Vishwanath is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sydney, Australia, currently based in New York City. His debut solo exhibition, Adoxography, opened at Google San Francisco in 2017, and his films and paintings have been shown across Australia and the United States.
Before pursuing an MFA in Filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Ajai completed his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with a concentration in Globalisation and a minor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent four years as the Head of Marketing for an Artificial Intelligence company based in San Francisco.
Ajai Vishwanath is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sydney, Australia, currently based in New York City. His debut solo exhibition, Adoxography, opened at Google San Francisco in 2017, and his films and paintings have been shown across Australia and the United States.
Before pursuing an MFA in Filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Ajai completed his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with a concentration in Globalisation and a minor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent four years as the Head of Marketing for an Artificial Intelligence company based in San Francisco.
Ajai Vishwanath is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sydney, Australia, currently based in New York City.
Ajai's short film, Starch, was nominated for two Critics' Choice Awards by the Film Critics guild of India, and played at film festivals around the world before being acquired for distribution by Alaska Airlines and Omeleto. His documentary short, Jaz, was nominated for the Jury Award at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, and his debut solo painting exhibition, Adoxography, opened at Google San Francisco.
Ajai holds an MFA in Filmmaking from NYU, where he was a Robert Jahn scholar and a Maurice Kanbar scholar. In 2023, Ajai was nominated for the ARRI Volker Bahnemann Award for Excellence in Cinematography. He is the Lead Curator and Head of Content at ShotDeck.