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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ajai Vishwanath is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sydney, Australia, currently based in New York City.
Ajai's short film, Starch, was an Official Selection at the Academy Award-qualifying Austin Film Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia and Tasveer Film Festivals. Starch won the Jury Award for Best International Short at the International South Asian Film Festival, and was acquired for distribution by Alaska Airlines and Omeleto, where it is now available for streaming. His documentary short, Jaz, was nominated for the Jury Award at the 2023 Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, and was selected for the Academy Award-qualifying AmDocs Film Festival. In 2024, he produced the short film Siesta (dir. Gustavo René Sanabria), which played at Aspen Shortsfest, the Austin Film Festival and the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, and his debut solo painting exhibition, Adoxography, opened at Google San Francisco.
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Ajai holds an MFA in Filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, 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. Prior to NYU, 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. He is the Curator at ShotDeck.​​
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