Anjali Benjamin-Webb is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, and death doula based in New York City. They descend from a long line of Black and Eelam Tamil revolutionaries who survived generations of state-enacted violence against all odds. Anjali’s art deeply considers violence, death, loss, and absence in order to connect with the conditions of our living. Their practice spans print, time-based media, and sculptural installation--using natural materials, the body, and space to give form to things unseen, but felt. Their art is a tribute to the senses.

Anjali is a death doula in community with Death for the Living, a death education and death equity collective providing end-of-life planning for those who are systematically denied a “good death” by the inequitable structures under which we all live.

Anjali is the founder of Palmyra Projects and has collaborated with organizations on health equity, decolonial education, reparations, human rights, and transitional justice. Anjali has guest lectured at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and has been a guest critic at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. They have been awarded the John and Lynn Kearney Fellowship for Equity at Gallery Aferro and serve on the National Committee of the Friends of Art at the Davis Museum.

Anjali holds an MA in Forensic Architecture from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Political Science and Studio Art from Wellesley College.