Anpu Varkey ( b 1980) is a muralist and visual artist who is addicted to heights, altered temporalities, and solitary landscapes. For over a decade, she has created large-scale, site-responsive public artworks across India and internationally. She received her BFA and MFA in painting from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara. She later went on to receive a diploma in fine arts from Central Saint Martins, London.
Her first solo exhibition, Dead Souls, was held at the Guild Gallery in New York in 2008. Since then, she has been an active contributor to India’s public art movement—organising street art festivals in Delhi and Mumbai, and in 2023, directing Theruvara, a street art festival in Thrissur presented in collaboration with the Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi and the International Film Festival of Kerala. She also devised projects for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2012 and 2014. Her recent projects include a monumental mural in Wuppertal, Germany, for the Wuppertal Tanzt festival, celebrating Pina Bausch’s Delhi-inspired work Bamboo Blues, and the 24,000 sq ft transformation of the Guru Dronacharya Metro Station in Gurgaon.
Varkey has also self-published two graphic books, including Summer’s Children (2019), presented as both an exhibition and a book launch at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), Delhi. She is also in the collections of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (Delhi). In 2025, she served as the resident artist at Berlin’s historic Teufelsberg radar station, supported by the Goethe-Institut Bangalore.