Shukla Sawant

Shukla Sawant is a visual artist and Professor of Visual Studies, at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She works with photography, installation, and printmaking. Her research interests include Modern and Contemporary Art, Art in Colonial India and Historiography. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of London and studied at the École Des Beaux Arts Paris. She has participated in artist residencies at Braziers College, Oxford U.K. (Triangle Arts Trust), Khoj Workshop, Modinagar, Began Grond Residency, Utrecht and has had solo exhibitions in London (Harriet Green Gallery), Amsterdam (FIA), Mumbai (Lakereen) and Delhi (Art Inc and Anant Art). She holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, an M.A. from the Slade School of Art and Centre for Theoretical Studies, University College London and she studied Printmaking at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Art, Paris (1984-86). She is currently part of the research and editorial team of Primary Documents South Asia, for MOMA, New York. Her recent publications include The Long Exposure: Painting and Photography in Early Twentieth Century Mysore in Deeptha Achar, Pushpamala N.(eds), Nation, Region, Modernity: The Art of K. Venkatappa, (London and New Delhi: Routledge, 2025); Readings on Modernism From 75 Years of Marg (ed.), Volume 74, Numbers 2 & 3 December 2022-March 2023; Erasures and Inscriptions: Gender Constructions in Early Indian Modernism in VISIBLE/INVISIBLE Representation of Women in Art through the MAP Collection, ed. Kamini Sawhney, (MAP Museum, Bengaluru, 2023); Photo-Fact, Photo-Fiction: Constructing Artist Photography in Partha Mitter, Parul Dave-Mukherji and Rakhee Balaram (eds), 20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2022).