Gayatri Sinha

Gayatri Sinha Founder Director

Founder Director, Critical Collective,

Gayatri Sinha is an art critic and curator based in New Delhi. Her primary areas of enquiry are around the structures of gender and iconography, media, economics and social history. As curator her work has cited the domains of photography and lens based work from archival and contemporary sources. 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 curated extensively in India and abroad including at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India Art Fair and the Korean International Art Fair, Newark Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Fotographie Forum, Frankfurt, the National Museum, New Delhi, the Festival of India in Bangladesh, The National Gallery of Modern Art. As an art critic she wrote a column for the Indian Express and The Hindu, and has written monographs on the artists Krishen Khanna and Himmat Shah.

She has lectured on Indian art at Arken Museum, the Hong Kong International Art Fair, Centre Pompidou, TrAIN/University of Arts, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, National Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Asian Art Museum, Singapore etc.

Gayatri Sinha is the founder director of Critical Collective, an initiative for communication in the arts.

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