Pooja Sood

Pooja Sood is a founding member and Director of Khoj International Artists’ Association, a not-for-profit society committed to experimentation and exchange in the visual arts in India. As the Director, she has worked actively to build a robust network of experimental spaces across South Asia resulting in the South Asian Network for the Arts (SANA). She has also led the ARThink South Asia (ATSA) arts management, policy and research programme for over a decade. Amongst other projects, she was the Artistic Director and Curator of 48°C. Public. Art. Ecology (2007-2008), the first public art project in India; Curator of the Apeejay Media Gallery (2002-2007), the first dedicated space for new media art in India; and Curator /Director for the Eicher Gallery (1994-1998), New Delhi. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Prince Claus Foundation (2023-2026) and is a member of the International Programme Advisory Committee of IFACCA (2024-25) as well as on the Board of Public Arts Trust of India, Jaipur. She has served on several international juries, most recently being the Nordic Cultural Fund (2022-2024), the Omega Resilience Awards (2023), the Rockefeller – Care Fellowship for Bellagio (2022) and has been an advisor and mentor for the South-South Asia Fellowship (2022-2023). She was a member of the Steering Group Committee on Arts Management for the Government of India (2014). As a Chevening scholar for the Clore Leadership Programme, UK (2009-2011), she has also served as Director-General of the Jawahar Kala Kendra, a multidisciplinary cultural space in Jaipur (2015–2019).