Anoma Wijewardene is a Sri Lankan contemporary artist.
17 Facts About Anoma Wijewardene
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Anoma Wijewardene has held exhibitions around the world, including Venice, London, Sydney, Dubai, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Maldives and Colombo.
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Anoma Wijewardene is the daughter of Sri Lankan agricultural engineer Ray Anoma Wijewardene, who represented Ceylon at the 1968 Summer Olympics in sailing.
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Anoma Wijewardene spent most of her early life in Sri Lanka before attending school in India at age 16.
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Anoma Wijewardene then moved to England, where she graduated in art and design from Central Saint Martins College.
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In 2016, Anoma Wijewardene represented Sri Lanka in the exhibition "One Belt, One Road", organised by the gallery Sotheby's Hong Kong.
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Anoma Wijewardene showcased her work, "Kintsugi", at the European Cultural Centre at the Palazzo Bembo during the 58th Venice Biennale.
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In 2019, Wijewardene released the monograph ANOMA at Central Saint Martins, London, on International Women's Day 2019.
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Anoma Wijewardene was among four South Asian representatives, including artists from India and Pakistan to participate in an exhibition entitled "In the Fore" in 2009, which was held at The Noble Sage in North London.
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Anoma Wijewardene contributed eight works on the theme of power.
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Anoma Wijewardene studied and worked in the UK for thirty years as a designer and artist.
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Anoma Wijewardene held solo and group exhibitions in Colombo, London, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and Singapore.
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Anoma Wijewardene created solo exhibitions in gallery stores including Wright and Teague in London, The One and Only in Maldives, Stellar Downer Gallery in Sydney, Gallery Taksu in Kuala Lumpur, Art Heritage in New Delhi, and Paradise Road Gallery and Barefoot Gallery in Sri Lanka.
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Anoma Wijewardene worked with Sri Lankan poet Ramya Jirasinghe on notable exhibitions such as Deliverance and EarthLines in 2012 and 2016 respectively.
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Anoma Wijewardene's first major solo exhibition was Quest in 2006, which was a trilingual exhibition that featured a video installation and the use of digital technology as a medium.
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Anoma Wijewardene worked as a designer for several years in the UK, and her designs were featured on the cover of Vogue.
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Anoma Wijewardene's clients include Yves St Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.