| abstract | - Gayatri Sinha is an art critic and independent curator. She studied at the Lawrence School, Sanawar and read English literature and Economics Calcutta University with a post graduation in Media Studies Social Psychology and Critical Appreciation, Bombay. As an art critic and columnist she has written for the Indian Express (1981-1991), the Telegraph (1991-1994) and the Hindu (1995-2006). Her concerns as a writer devolved around creating a language that could create a theoretical framework for the complex elements that enter Indian praxis – classical and vernacular strains, social polity and critical theory. As an editor her work has been art historical and critical in drawing together scholars and critics to examine Indian art practices from the 1850s onwards. Publications: 1. Amit Ambalal, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2008 2. India Public Places Private Spaces Contemporary Photography and Video Art Marg/The Newark Musuem, USA 2007 3. Himmat Shah an Unreasoned Act of Being Mapin/ Lundhumphries, 2007 4. Local/Global, Indian Women’s Art Practice in the 19th century ed. Drs Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland, Ashgate publishers.,UK, 2006. 5. Krishen Khanna :The Embrace of Love Mapin, 2005 6. The Art of Adimoolam Mapin, 2004 7. Indian art: An Overview [ed. A collection of 15 essays, 1850-2000] Rupa books, 2003. 8. A Critical Biography of Krishen Khanna, Vadehra art gallery, 2002 9. Woman/Goddess catalogue for photographic exhibition 1998 10. Expressions and Evocations: Contemporary Women Artists of India, ( ed ) Marg publications 1996 Essay on Gender Art and Nation for the project Art Nationalism and Modernity, India Japan and Mexico, 1860-1940. Funded by the AHRB, UK. Duke University Press Art and Visual Culture in India 1857-2007. (edited) Marg – National Culture Fund – Bodhi Art. Young Indian Artists Bodhi Art 1. Frame/Grid/Room/Cell, Bodhi Art, Mumbai 2007* 2. Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, The Newark Museum, New Jersey (September 2007). Minneapolis Institute of Arts, US (2008) * 3 I fear, I believe, I desire, an exhibition of video installation, photography, sculpture and painting, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2007* 4. Watching Me Watching India Contemporary photography in India, Fotographie Forum, Frankfurt (co-curator, Celina Lunsford) 2006. * 5. Kashmir, A Passage in Time, for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India at New Delhi, March 2005, on 50 years of Kashmiri social history. 6. Middle Age Spread Imaging India 1947 – 2004 April 2004, National Museum, New Delhi. * 7. After Dark, Sakshi gallery, Mumbai, March 2004. * 8. Cinema Still Apparao galleries, New Delhi 2002. * 9. In Conversation, an exhibition of artists’ sketch books, Gallery Espace, September, 2001. 10. Vilas: The Idea of Pleasure, Birla Academy, Mumbai, December, 2000. * 11. Photo-exhibition Woman/Goddess 1999-2000 Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, and New York 2001. * 12. The Self and the World, fifteen women artists at the National Gallery of Modern Art, April, 1997. * 13. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi curator of Indian women artists for Utsav, the Festival of India in Bangladesh, 1996.
* accompanying catalogue 2008 1. Bapu, Saffronart Gallery, New York, October 2008 2. Mutant Beauty, Anant Art Gallery, Noida, November 2008 3. Degrees of Separation, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, November 2008 Talks 1. Cartographic Necessities : Contemporary Practices and the making of a brave new world, Asian Seminar, New Delhi, 2007 2. Pursuit of Dream, Contemporary Photography, Bodhi Art Gallery, Bombay , 2007 3. Contemporary Indian Photography ,Tate Modern, 2007 4. Elusive Divinity, Aspects of Devi Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, 2007 5. South Asian Photography,Tate Modern, London, 2006 6. Gender and Nation, from Bharat to Bharat mata at the seminar Cult of the Goddess, National Museum, 2006 7. The Visibility of the Feminine Myth and Metaphor in Indian Women’s Art, The Tate, Britain Conference, 2005 8. Curatorial Practices – TRAIN workshop, St. Martins, London, 2005 9. Curatorial practices, TAC, International Seminar, New Delhi, January 2005 10. Time man, Space woman, CIHA conference, Canada 2004 11. Asian Modernities – Cubism in India, Japan Foundation symposium, Tokyo, 2004 12. The Visibility of women’s art practice, international seminar at the Tate Britain, 2003 13. Gender and National Narrative 1860- 1940, University of Sussex, 2002 14. Gender & Nationalism, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2002 15. Picasso & Women : Picasso Retrospective, Indo-French seminar at the National Museum, 2002 16. Interpreting the Goddess, Indo Center for Art and Culture, New York, 2001 17. Public art in Old Cities, New Cultures – an Indo-British seminar, British Council, New Delhi, 2000 18. The Concept of Indianness in Indian Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, March,1998 19. Dhvana series lecture, Four Indian Mythic Women – Sita, Savitri, Shakuntala and Draupadi and the concept of the ideal Feminine, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, 1994 20. Changing Criteria for Art Criticism, Art Critics Association, India International Centre, 1992 21. Ravi Varma and the feminine ideal of beauty, Arts and Crafts Forum, India International Centre, 1992 22. Contemporary Art Within and Without Institutions – state structures, galleries, artist’s projects, TAC` 23. The use of photography in Indian art 24. Clothing [1860-1940] 25. Nation, Identity, Protest, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi 1. Amit Ambalal, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2008 2. Dhruva Mistry- A Persistent Heroism, 2008 3. Cubism Resonances En Asia, Japan, Cultural Association, Paris, 2007. 4. Three Narratives of Displacement, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Onexone Gallery, Dubai, 2007. 5. Husain: Lightening Tamarind Art, New York, 2007. 6. Andrew Burton, Monument to Transience, Newcastle, UK, 2007. 7. Timeline, essay on Nataraj Sharma, Bodhi Art, 2007. 8. Child Speak/Woman Song – Vasundhara Tewari, Vadehra Art Gallery, 2007 9. V. Ramesh, Gallery Threshhold, New Delhi, 2007 10. Contemporary Indian Photography, Made By Indians, Gallerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 2007 11. Absence of an Architect, Gigi Scaria, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2007 12. Rameshwar Broota: Recent paintings, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2007 13. Gopi Krishna The Cave in the Metropolis, Pallete Art Gallery, 2006 14. Anjum Singh City in Progress, Sakshi Mumbai 2006 15. Local/Global, Indian Women’s Art Practice in the 19th century ed. Drs Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland, Ashgate publishers.,UK, 2006. 16. Manisha Parekh, Memory/Membrane, Sakshi, Mumbai, 2006 17. Anita Dube Bose Pacia Gallery New York, 2005 18. Anjolie Ela Menon, solo show, Gallery Artsindia, New York, ArtsIndia West, Palo Alto, 2004 19. Atul Dodiya: Artist/Arranger Bose Pacia Gallery, New York 2003 20. Anandajit Ray, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2003 21. Cinema Still : Apparao Gallery, India Habitat Centre, 2002 22. India’s Indira, Works by M.F. Husain, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, 2002 23. Yayati Unbound [paintings and sculptures by A. Ramachandran], Art Heritage, 2002 24. Rameshwar Broota : The Edge of Crisis – Shridharani Gallery, 2002 25. Gods and Others, Apparao Galleries, Madras, 2000 26. Vilas – The Idea of Pleasure, Birla Academy, Mumbai, December, 2000 27. Point-Counterpoint drawings by K.G. Subramanyan, A. Ramachandran, Arpita Singh, Manjit Bawa, Gallery Espace, April, 2000 28. Amitava Das : The Outsider, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2000 29. Latika Katt, British Council Queen’s Gallery, March, 1998 30. Gouache and Contemporary Indian Art, Gallery Art Motif, January, 1998 31. The Self and the World, National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997 32. Manu Parekh : Fragments of Life ARKS Gallery, London, 1997 33. Arpana Caur : Between Dualities, ARKS Gallery, London, 1997 34. Icons of Womanhood, recent paintings of Gogi Saroj Pal, Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam, 1997 35. An exhibition of women artists, NGMA collection, Festival of India, Bangladesh, 1996 36. Latika Katt, Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay, 1996 37. The Devices and Desires of Anupam Sud, Gallery Art Heritage, New Delhi, 1996 38. Installation Art in Contemporary India, Lalit Kala Quarterly on Sculpture, 1995 39. Works on Paper : Five Artists, Gallery Espace, 1995 40. India Songs : An essay on five women artists, Art and Asia Pacific Journal, Australia, 1995 41. Studies in Loneliness : The Paintings of Shamshad Husain, Art Heritage Journal no. 9, 1990 Awards: 1. Best curator award, India Habitat Centre, 2003. 2. University of Sussex and the London Institute Project Art Modernity and Nationalism India, Japan and Mexico, 1860-1940 [2002-2004]. 3. French government award to study contemporary French art practice, September 2000. 4. Ford Foundation award for the study of the treatment of the Goddess image in Contemporary India, 1998-2000. 5. British Council and the Charles Wallace Trust, The Enduring Image from the British Museum, August, 1997. 6. Senior Fellowship by the Department of Culture for a critical biography on the artist Krishen Khanna (1995 -1997) 7. French Government invitation, Festival d’Avignon, 1995. 8. Department of Culture award for Representation of the Divine Feminine in Himachali Painting and Sculpture (1995). 9. British Tourist Authority award, London Arts Festival, 1994. 10. French Government award, Festival d’Automne, Paris, 1994. 11. British Council/Charles Wallace award, opening of the Joseph Hotung Gallery of Asian Art at the British Museum, 1992. 12. French Government invitation, Festival D’ Avignon, 1991.
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