Nina Mangalanayagam

Nina Mangalanayagam is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research and visual practice explore hybridity, postcolonial histories and decolonial image making. She is currently working on a collaborative research project with Louise Wolthers at the Hasselblad foundation, ‘Photography and the Glitch’, which includes the co-curated exhibition and publication Bugs and Metamorphosis (2025). She is also working on a three-year artistic research project, “Colouring-In Sweden,” funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), focusing on stories of women in Swedish colonial histories.

She has a PhD from Westminster University and a MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK. Mangalanayagam exhibits and publishes her practice and researchwidely internationally. Recent publications include co-editing with Louise Wolthers the special journal issue of Philosophy of Photography on Photography and the Glitch (2023) and co-editing the section on Decolonial Practices in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies (2024) together with Emese Mucsi.