Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur is a Delhi-based critic and curator. Her widely anthologized essays thematize alternative modernisms and national paradigms, forms of critical contemporaneity and curatorial positioning of artworks in India and the global south. Her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000), Speech Acts (2024), Critic’s Compass: Navigating Practice (forthcoming). Her curatorial work includes ‘Dispossession’, at the Johannesburg Biennale (1995); ‘Bombay/Mumbai’, Century City, co-curated with Ashish Rajadhyaksha at Tate Modern, London (2001); ‘subTerrain’, curated at House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003); ‘Aesthetic Bind’, five exhibitions, curated at Chemould, Mumbai (2013-14). She was Jury member for the Biennales of Venice (2005), Dakar (2006), Sharjah (2007). Geeta Kapur was one of the founder-editors of Journal of Arts & Ideas, a member on the advisory board of Third Text, a trustee and advisory editor of Marg. She is on the advisory board of ARTMargins. She held Visiting Fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi. She was an advisory member, Asian Art Council, Guggenheim Museum; Asia Tate Research Centre; Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. A Trustee of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF), Delhi, she is the series editor of ART DOCUMENTS (SSAF–Tulika Books).