The Bibliography Project

Ragavan is based in New Delhi, and has been part of AAA's Research+ team since 2012. She oversees the Bibliography of Modern and Contemporary Art Writing project. She holds a MA in Art History and Aesthetics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda, with a specialisation in architectural history. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Cultural Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad.

Nasar is curator, writer, and Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Formerly based in London, Nasar was director and co-founder of Green Cardamom, and has curated numerous international exhibitions including: Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, Johnson Museum, Cornell University (2012) and Nasher Museum, Duke University (2013); Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur (2010); and Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2005) and Asian Art Museum (2006). Nasar serves on the panel of judges for the V&A Jameel Prize, the editorial board of Tate Etc, Art Basel’s crowdfunding partnership with Kickstarter; and on advisory panels for Delfina Foundation (UK), Rhode Island School of Design (USA) and San Art (Vietnam). Nasar is a former fellow of The Clore Leadership Programme (UK) and a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London.

Chakravarty is a practicing artist based in Guwahati, Assam. She holds a BFA from Government College of Art & Craft, Assam. Her works have been shown in group exhibitions in India, Bangladesh, Italy, Germany, and recently in the New York Contemporary Art Biennial, 2013. Chakravarty is the recipient of the Best Entry Award from Art Society of India, Mumbai (2013), the Lalit Kala Research Scholarship (2011), and the Juries Special Award in NE Art Exhibition, Artfest’97. She regularly contributes articles on art and culture to newspapers and magazines while conducting children’s art workshops in Assam.

Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. She holds a PhD and studied under the doctoral programme at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her areas of interest include the sociology of urban consumption and cultural studies.

Ghosh is currently UGC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the MS University of Baroda, and has taught in various academic institutions including: Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad, the College of Art and Design, Burdwan, and Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata. 

Ghosh has also contributed to a number of international publications including: Lalit Kala Contemporary, Veena, Art & Deal, Varta, and online journal The Other Spaces. Her essay on Rabindranath Tagore also appears in Appreciation of Indian Art: Selected Writings (vol.1).

Ghosh was the recipient of a fellowship at The Forum on Contemporary Theory (Baroda), the UGC Junior Research Fellowship, and the Small Scale Research and Study Grant of the Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Mizan is post graduate from fine Art Faculty of Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is an Artist and a Curator. Being a visual artist she mostly works as site-specific installation artist but she also works with mix media, Printmaking, photography and projection etc.

She was awarded the “Best Media Award” in Annual Exhibition of Fine Art Faculty in 2010. She is now active as an Independent Curator in Bangladesh. Sadya is the founder of URONTO Community, Which is the first artist community in Bangladesh to work with Old heritage house related memories and document them through Art.  Her works are shared in India, Pakistan, Texas, Nepal and Malaysia.

Oza is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Film Studies and Visual Communications, EFL University, Hyderabad. Her doctoral research focuses on the images produced for children in Gujarati printed texts (textbooks, magazines, and story books), particularly in the early 20th century.

Oza holds a MA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda and her paintings have been exhibited in Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Bombay, and Kerala.

Oza has contributed writings, illustrations, and graphic stories to Chakmak, a children’s magazine, and to a book illustration project titled Different Tales that published folk and oral narratives from and about marginalised cultures and communities in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam languages.

Khodke is a New Delhi based artist, and the Publications Project Coordinator for Asia Art Archive since 2013. Previously Assistant Professor at Amity School of Fine Arts, Amity University, Noida, he has participated in several group shows, artists’ camps, and artists’ residency programmes in India, and overseas.

The recipient of the Gold Medal of Excellence during his Masters of Visual Arts (Painting) course at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda in 2004, Khodke worked as an illustrator on the children’s book, Mother, for the series Different Tales, and has also contributed to the Hindi children’s magazine Chakmak. Images of his artworks have been published in Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism, and the magazine Himal Southasian (April 2010).

Khodke also conducts fine art workshops for university students, and has designed sets for theater productions.

Pande is pursuing her MPhil at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and holds a BA and MA in Art History and Aesthetics from Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda.

Pande was a guest lecturer for Art History and Aesthetics at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow (2012 and 2013), and also recently co-curated Mapping Gender: Bodies and Sexualities across the Global South, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi (2013).

Pandurangi is a visiting faculty member in the Department of Art History, Chamarajendra Government Visual Art College (CAVA), Mysore. He holds a BA in Painting from CAVA, and an MA in Art History and Aesthetics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda, and has taught art history at various art colleges across Karnataka.

Pandurangi has participated in national seminars and published articles in Karnataka Kala Varthe, Vijaya Karnataka. He curated the exhibition Spirit of the Age at Sabrang Art Gallery, Mysore in 2012 and has published the two-issue bilingual newsletter Questions and Dialogue (2008).

Ramakrishnan is currently pursuing his PhD in Visual Arts from Ambedkar University, Delhi, after completing his MA in Visual Arts from the same institution. Aryan is an activist, artist, and curator—the aspects of collaborative possibilities and encounters with people has been central to his practice.

The project he undertook as part of his MA thesis, Sweet Maria Monument, can be seen as a moment where all of these practices—drawings, curation, installation, code poetry and performance all came together to make a monument for 'sweet Maria', a transgender activist and friend. He was selected as one of the curators for the Student Biennale as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2014.

Jamsheed Malik is an artist and art historian based in Nadigam, Shopiandistt, Kashmir. He received a BFA in Painting from the Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Kashmir University, Srinagar and an MFA in the History of Art from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. Malik was the recipient of the National Scholarship for Painting awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India in 2009-11. His articles have been published in journals and art magazines such as Searching Lines (Journal of the Dept. of Art History, Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan) and Art News and Views (Kolkata). He has participated in many national workshops and seminars. His work has been shown in many art exhibitions, including North Zone Youth Festival, Amritsar (2006), Jammu and Kashmir State Annual Art Exhibition (2006-09), and Kala Bhavan Annual Art Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata (2009-12). He curated an exhibition titled 'Kashmir, Art and Insurgency' at the Rinchen Zsangpo Gallery, Jammu University, Jammu in 2011. Malik has worked as Creative Artist for INTACH (J & K Chapter) since 2012.

Kulkarni is currently working as Guest Faculty for History of Art and Design at Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune. She holds an MA in Art History and an MA in Indology at MS University of Baroda and Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, respectively.

Kulkarni has curated exhibitions that include Nasik History Museum, Retrospective of Pune Art, Uprooting the Aboriginals and Swelling Surroundings. She has organised various art appreciation and awareness programmes like ‘Chitrabodh’ and ‘Chitrasamvad’ at Maharashtra Cultural Centre, Pune.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions, workshops and seminars at the national and state levels. She is presently working on a research project titled Ragamala Folios of Nasik – a Formal and Thematic Analysis.

Malik holds an MA in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from SN School of Fine Arts, University of Hyderabad and is currently pursuing an MPhil in Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

He was the recipient of the French Embassy Krishnakriti Fellowship (2010); the University Gold Medal (2011), the UGC NET (2013) and completed an internship at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2011. Malik has exhibited in a number of group shows including: On the Way, at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2010) and Work in Progress and Rencontres, at Galerie Duboys, Paris (2011, 2012). Recently Malik co-curated an international group exhibition; Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South, at School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2013).

Singh is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sculpture, Government College of Art, Chandigarh and holds an MA in Visual Arts (Sculpture) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda.

He is the recipient various awards including two from Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy (2004 and 2014), as well as All India Exhibition of Fine Arts (2006), and the Punjab University Youth Festival (2003).

Singh has also participated in a number of workshops and residencies, and has contributed to several exhibitions which include Convergence at Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore (2012); AIFACS, New Delhi (2011) and Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy (2004, 2005, 2011, 2012).

Packiyanathan has completed her BA in Art History and Aesthetics from Jaffna University (2013). She has previously worked as a Temporary Lecturer at the same department and is currently Visiting Instructor at Jaffna University.

Krishnapriya is a practicing visual artist with both a BA and MA in Painting from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai (2001–2007). She has participated in many group exhibitions and a few solo exhibitions, and is part of The Karuppu Art Collective, a group of artists based in Chennai, where she lives and works.

Biluka is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Film Studies and Visual Communication at EFL University, Hyderabad. She holds a MA in Visual Arts (Painting) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda, and was awarded the UGC Junior Research Fellowship in 2006.

Biluka is also the recipient of the CSDS-ICSSR fellowship, and the Telugu University Gold Medal. She had her first solo show Signals at Studio Napean, Mumbai (2007) and her work has also featured in several group shows.

Hashmi is affiliated with the Department of Comparative Literature, New York University.

A graphic artist based in New Delhi, Usmani is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and also Senior Visualiser with Nicholas Hoffland Design. Previously involved in the Government of India's Mural Art Project (Ministry of Finance, Archeological Survey of India) as a Visual Design Expert, he is also responsible for the Lufthansa Airlines India Art Collection.

Usmani has conceptualised, designed, illustrated, and executed projects for many corporate groups, organisations, and brands, including the PVR Bowling Pin Art Project, the PVR Cine Art Collection, and Jagori. Besides participating in group shows, he has also been involved in workshops with the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, New Delhi, and with the Design and Innovation Academy, IIM, Noida. He is currently working on an illustrated volume of Urdu poetry and an audio book on Akhtar ul Iman, the noted Urdu poet and screen writer.

Whitelaw is an academic, writer, and creative practitioner with interests in new media art and cultures, in particular—generative systems, data-aesthetics, and digital collections. His work has appeared in journals including; Leonardo, Digital Creativity, and Fibreculture. His current work spans materiality, data and culture, with a practical focus on creating ‘generous interfaces’ for digital heritage. He has worked with institutions including the State Library of NSW, the National Archives, and the National Gallery of Australia; developing innovative interfaces to their digital collections. Mitchell is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, where he leads the Digital Treasures program in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. Whitelaw also blogs at The Teeming Void.

Rao is an artist interested in the anxiety of communication and incomprehensibility via language and gibberish. She employs drawings, sound, voice textures, text and code in her works.Rao holds a BFA in Painting from College of Art, Delhi (2012), and an MA in Visual Art from Ambedkar University, Delhi (2014).She is one from a group of four artists that has co-curated as 'Juggleheads' two parts of a group show called stutter in your eloquence in Kochi and Delhi.

Vasandani obtained a BA in Art History from the University of California, Irvine. She is currently pursuing an MA in Theories of Urban Practice at The New School, in New York City and is interested in how marginalised and overlooked populations in the US, establish spaces of belongingness within cities.

Siddiqui is a Research Scholar at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. She earned an MPhil in Visual Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, and an MA in Art History from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. Her research areas include photography, visual anthropology, and contemporary art practices.