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Anoushka Akel lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau. She received her MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010 and works across the mediums of painting and printmaking. Consistent ideas within her practice include: embodied knowledge, cognitive psychology, and philosophies of care as well as pressure and plasticity in relation to the body, behaviour and the art object.

Selected exhibitions include: (Red Legs) Hot Head, 2020, Goya Curtain, Tokyo; Learners, 2019, Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington; Biographies of Transition: Too Busy to Think, 2017 Artspace, Auckland, NZ; Chain of Mountains, 2016, TCB, Melbourne; Back, Front, Brain, 2016, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington; Painting: A Transitive Space, 2016, St. Paul Street Gallery 3, Auckland; Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show, 2015, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; Hop Scotch, 2012, Artspace, Auckland.

Akel was the recipient of the C Art Trust Award in 2018 and artist in residence at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Bremen, Germany in 2013.