Puja Vaish

Puja Vaish is an artist, curator, and educator, currently serving as Director of the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation at CSMVS Museum, Mumbai. She specialises in modern and contemporary art and has developed several significant exhibitions. Her curatorial work includes Nasreen Mohamedi: The Vastness, Again & Again, which offered fresh perspectives on Mohamedi's artistic legacy; Out of Place/Har Jagah Ajnabi (2023), examining notions of place through 33 Indian artists' works; and The Fragility of Time (2024), the first-ever presentation contextualizing Nalini Malani's early works. For the museum's centenary, she curated Sahej Rahal: Ancestors (2022), and most recently presented Photo Lies (2025) featuring Dayanita Singh's works. Previously serving as curator at Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum (2013–2019), Vaish worked extensively with colonial-era collections, contributed research to the museum's publication and co-curated Connecting Threads: Textile in Contemporary Practice (2019). Her academic career includes teaching positions at MSU Baroda's Faculty of Fine Arts (2008-2009), Delhi College of Art (2009-2010), and Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (2010-2014). Vaish holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from MSU Baroda, where she received the gold medal and the Nasreen Mohamedi award.