Premjish Achari

Premjish Achari is a Curator and Writer. His curations include the exhibitions Imperial Silhouettes: Shadows of Sovereignty (Rai, Abu Dhabi, 2024-25), Luminous Reveries (Travancore Palace, Delhi 2024) Inscapes: In Search of a Place (Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2023), Things are vanishing before us (Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2023), Student's Biennale for Kochi Biennale Edition (2022-2023), All Canaries Bear Watching, part of the Indo-UK collaboration GRID Heritage Project, SAA/JNU, Delhi (2022); A Time for Farewells (Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2019). Premjish was the editorial supervisor of Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family, 2021), a major contemporary art survey exhibition organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He was the recipient of the Pro Helvetia Art Writers' Award 2021, followed by a residency at Atelier Mondial, Basel, and published Lure of Collaboration: Dissecting Consensus for Take on Art; Prameya Art Foundation's Art Scribes Award, including a residency at Château de La Napoule, France. His articles have been published in Portrait of an Artist as an Individual, Altaf: Early Drawings' by Delhi Art Gallery (2023), Iconic: Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art Edition 2 Volume 1 by Delhi Art Gallery (2023), Traversing the “Blind Spot”: Art Pedagogy and the Student Biennale, in Unframed Edited by Rahab Allana, Harper Design, 2023. He conceptualized and initiated the Kaee Kolkata City Lab. He is currently working as a Curator at KNMA, Delhi.