Curators In Conversation: Gayatri Sinha and Diana Freundl (20 April 2019)

In this conversation, curators Diana Freundl and Gayatri Sinha discuss recent scholarship on Indian art and the importance of photography in nineteenth-century India to the present.

GAYATRI SINHA is an art critic and curator whose primary areas of interest are gender and iconography, media, economics and social history. She has curated exhibitions extensively in India, Europe and the United States. Sinha is the founder and director of Critical Collective, an initiative to build knowledge of the visual arts in India. Sinha’s publications include Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists (2010), Art and Visual Culture in India 1857–2007 (2009) and Indian Art: An Overview (2003), among others. She has lectured widely on Indian art, including at the Tate Modern, MoMA New York, Tate Britain, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. She was the recipient of the 2017 Tate Research Centre Asia Visiting Fellowship.