i. Provide discourse on Indian visual arts by providing accessibility to recent history and developments in Indian visual arts
ii. Make available the forgotten and lesser known histories of Indian visual arts in order to locate their contemporaneity
iii. Make available new ways of interpreting visual arts in India for the current and future generation
Abhay SardesaiAbhay Sardesai has been the Editor of ART India, the premier art magazine of India, since November 2002. He has been a Visiting Faculty in Aesthetics at the Department of English, University of Mumbai, and has also been the Chair of Humanities, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai. He teaches at the Smt. P. N. Doshi Women’s College of Arts and also at various other institutions like Jnanapravaha and TISS.
Parul Dave MukherjiParul Dave-Mukherji is professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She holds a PhD in Indology from Oxford University. Her current research interests include global art history, contemporary Asian art and comparative aesthetics.
Director
Gayatri Sinha
Gayatri Sinha is a critic, editor and curator who works in the domains of gender, lens-based art, and cultural politics.
She has edited Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists (Marg 2010), Art and Visual Culture in India 1857- 2007 (Marg Publications, 2009); Indian Art: an Overview (Rupa Books, 2003); Woman/Goddess (1998); Expressions and Evocations: Contemporary Indian Women Artists of India (Marg Publications, 1996]. She has written monographs on the artists Krishen Khanna and Himmat Shah. As a curator, she has worked within museums and institutions in India and abroad including the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art, the National Museum, the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the Grand Curtius and Musee Ansembourg Belgium, the Newark Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art, in the USA, the Fotographie Forum Frankfurt, among others. She has lectured in Tate Britain, MoMA New York, Aarken Museum Denmark, The Rockbund Shanghai, NYU, Duke University and several other institutional spaces.
Since 2011, she has directly supported knowledge in the arts through her initiative Critical Collective, which is the first such art archive and news magazine on Indian art.
In 2017, she received the Tate Asia research fellowship grant. She is currently editing a volume on Modern and Contemporary Photography.
Editor
Mrinalini Vasudevan, Copy Editor
Mrinalini has a background in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has previously worked as copywriter
with Bates, Kolkata, and as an editor with Orient BlackSwan, Kolkata, and The Marg Foundation,Mumbai.
Researchers
Namrata Ghosh
Namrata Ghosh has an M. Phil from The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, a Masters in History from Delhi University and a Bachelor’s degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi. Her area of interest includes visual and material cultures, photographic practices, socio-cultural histories, popular memory and museum studies.
Umara Zainab
Umara Zainab has a background in History, with a Masters in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has previously worked as a researcher for a project, under the Institute of Development Studies, on questions of gender and religion in India. Her research interests include looking at print culture, book histories, gender, sexuality, and historiography.
Sweta Singh
Sweta Singh completed her bachelors and masters degrees from Benaras Hindu University in the History of Art. Her areas of interest include modern art, and the architectural history of Eastern Utter Pradesh, especially in and around Varanasi.
Sohorpem Kazingmei
Sohorpem Kazingmei has a masters degree from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, and recently assisted in the student Biennale at Kochi , 2022.
Design
Sanket Jadia
Sanket Jadia is an artist & graphic designer based in Delhi. He is the recipient of Inlaks Fine Arts Award (2017) and was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 (2020).