Curation & Consult — Sunnie Anand

Some things you don't learn so much as remember. Art history, composition, how materials move — these things came naturally the moment I encountered them. Despite my Environmental Science and Corporate Sustainability background, a dabbling in a handful of art history classes led to feminist film and media studies and later a decade of showing up to museums like it was my second job. I took to art like a duck to water.

Now Accepting · Los Angeles

Sunnie Salons

An invitation-only evening in Los Angeles. 25 guests. 1–3 featured artists sharing their process, their current work, or an upcoming show — followed by a moderated conversation. The kind of evening that changes how you see art, and the people in the room. Salons are announced to the waitlist first.

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An artist who wants to be featured? hello@sunnieanand.com

What I Offer

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Art Acquisition & Advisory

I acquire art on behalf of private collectors, designers, and hospitality clients. A brief, a budget, and I go to work.

We start with a brief — your space, your taste, your budget. From there I search, source, and present options. Available for one-time acquisitions and ongoing advisory relationships.

Gallery Opening Talks

A bespoke talk for your opening — contextual, engaging, calibrated to your audience.

Booked 4–6 weeks out. I review your collection, your artist roster, and your audience before writing a talk tailored to your opening. Available in Los Angeles and for travel.

Museum & Gallery Tours

Guided tours that go beyond the wall label. I connect, contextualize, and make the work land.

Available in Los Angeles and for travel.

Corporate & Institutional

We start with a conversation about your people and your goals. I'm ex-corporate — I know the grind. I also know that learning to see art is mental health, heart health, and organizational health in one. From there I design something that fits your context.

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Art Talks & Art Walks

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I have been called a lot of things in museums. Passionate is not the least of them. I can hold a room — any room — on the relationship between 19th century French Impressionism and the American conservation movement, why Napoleon's looting campaigns still shape what we consider "canonical" art today, how urbanization in Paris gave rise to bohemian culture and changed art forever, and why the human hand making marks in traditional media is one of our most powerful responses to the rise of AI.

She wove together Haussmann's Paris, the light on the Seine, and the paintings at the Orsay into one seamless story — the architecture, the history, the art — until the City of Lights itself felt like the masterpiece. Genuinely one of the most illuminating afternoons I've had.

— A guest, Paris art walks

What I don't do is ask "how does this make you feel?" Asking better questions invites my audiences to carry the piece home with them (in their heart and sometimes in the car!) and change the way they witness art.

"You haven't been to a gallery until you've been with Sunnie. She will blow your mind."

— A guest, Impressionism tour · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sample Art Talk Topics

The Impressionist Rupture

How a group of rejected painters changed what art was allowed to be — and why it still matters.

Napoleon and the Canon

What looting tells us about power, ownership, and whose stories get told — and what we can see happening now.

AI and the Human Hand

Why making things by hand is a political act right now, and why the forecast of AI taking over is dark but not inevitable.

The Feminist Gaze

Using the master's tools outside masculine constructs — from radical non-linear filmmaking of the 1970s to the female gaze turned back on itself.

Art and the Environment

French Impressionism, American conservation, and the landscape as subject — a conversation that persists.

How to Look at Anything

An interactive method for standing in front of work that stops you cold — with better questions than "how does this make you feel?"

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About those alarming number of museum receipts: Although I was already a lifelong museum goer, post-covid, I worked for an international company with global projects and took every opportunity in my off time to hunt down my favorite pieces that I'd only studied about in slides and books (conventional art history student here). It was life-giving, and I've hit some 80 world-class museums and counting with no plan to stop. When I say I'm passionate about museum and gallery spaces, I meant it -- and yes, I've quite literally got the receipts.

Grand Salon

Musée d'Orsay

Alaïa × Mugler

Paris

Lynn Drexler

Mint Museum

Kehinde Wiley

Mint Museum

Mark Rothko

National Gallery · DC

Leila Farhan

Atlanta opening

Currently Curating

Exhibitions in development

These are original exhibition concepts I am actively developing and seeking gallery and institutional partners for. If your space is the right home for one of these — let's talk. And if you're an artist whose work belongs here — I want to hear from you too.

Exhibition in Development

Return of Gaia

We have spent centuries extracting from the earth as though she were a resource rather than a relative. This exhibition asks: what comes after? Not collapse — return. Return of Gaia brings together works that imagine the earth not as victim or backdrop but as active, generative, sovereign force reclaiming her place. The works span painting, sculpture, textile, and land-based installation, united by a shared insistence that nature is not waiting for our permission to reassert herself. She is always creating herself.

Origin work: "Nice Try," Sunnie Anand, 2026

Exhibition in Development

Beyond Wear

Textile has always carried a double burden — it must be useful, and it must be beautiful. This exhibition refuses the first requirement entirely. Beyond Wear presents textile works that exist purely as art objects: no body is implied, no function intended, no wearability required. What remains when cloth is freed from the body?

Form, memory, labor, politics, and an almost unbearable intimacy of materials.

Exhibition in Development

The Creator Caste

In many South Asian communities, the script for women is written before they arrive: study hard, marry well, hold the family together, and if something creative stirs inside you — manage it quietly. If she's in the US, the imported virtue of ladder climbing adds yet another life step: become a high-paid professional (I see you, Pharmacist sisters.)

This exhibition does not ask Desi women to abandon their roles. Instead, it recognizes those who chose to add themSelves to the list. The Creator Caste features works by South Asian women of the diaspora who have claimed creative selfhood — not necessarily as their primary identity, but certainly as a legitimate one.

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Sunnie Salons

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Sample Art Talk Topics

Exhibitions in development