Sana Ginwalla

Sana Ginwalla is an Indian-Zambian artist, curator, writer, and lecturer born, raised and based in Lusaka. She is the founder of the Everyday Lusaka Gallery and the Zambia Belonging counter-archive – curatorial and artistic outputs dedicated to shifting towards a more considered visual representation of Zambia’s past and present to build a contemporary archive for future generations.

Her work with these platforms has been presented at Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2026), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2025), India Art Fair (2025), Association for Visual Arts in Cape Town (2025), University of Cambridge (2023, 2024), African Biennale of Photography in Bamako (2022, 2024), Stranger’s House Gallery, Mumbai (2024, 2025), Lechwe Trust Gallery (2024), Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (2023), University of Oxford (2023, 2025), Galerie Alliance Française de Lusaka, which she inaugurated (2021–2022), and Lusaka National Museum (2021).

 

Sana is a recipient of the 2025 Prince Claus Seed Award, and her debut book “Lusaka Street” (2025) – Zambia’s first photo book of archival street photography by Alick Phiri – was shortlisted for the Aperture First Photobook Award. Notable published work by Sana can be seen in the Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation Journal by Cambridge University Press (2026) and the Brooklyn Museum’s catalogue for “Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens” (2025).

 

She is currently lecturing and completing her Master’s in Creative Arts at Open Window University for Creative Arts, while regularly curating exhibitions at Everyday Lusaka Gallery.