John Xaviers

John Xaviers (b.1978, Kochi, India) is an artist curator and an educator since 2009. He did his PhD in art theory in 2015 from the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. John Xaviers was the Assistant Curator of the 4th Kochi Muziris Biennale. He taught art theory at the School of Art and Performing Arts at Shiv Nadar University, Noida from 2015 to 2018 and John Xaviers also served as the curatorial respondent for the first Masters Thesis Exhibition of Shiv Nadar University’s MFA at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida in 2016. John Xaviers curated a group show titled Apple in Dream Mode at Mumbai Art Room in Colaba, Mumbai in June 2018, which got featured as the Critic’s Pick in Art Forum. John Xaviers curated Terra Incognita at the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi in 2015. He served as Assistant Curator at Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon from 2009 to 2011. As a self-taught artist, John Xaviers did a solo show of paintings titled The Rise and Fall of Tigerabad Empire at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU in 2012 and showed his projects India Art Power 100 and Karmaleaks in Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition at Devi Art Foundation curated by Raqs Media Collective.