Geeta Kapur


Geeta Kapur is a noted Indian art critic, art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of art critical writing in India, and who as Indian Express noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemporary art theory for three decades now". Her writings include artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues, books, and sets of widely anthologized essays on art, film, and cultural theory.
One of the founder-editors of ', she has also been on the advisory boards of ' , , and . She was a jury member of the Biennales of Venice, Dakar, and Sharjah. She is a member of the at the Guggenheim Museum, Asian Art Archive in Hong Kong, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
She was awarded the Padma Shri for her contribution to Art by the Government of India in 2009.
In 2011, Hong Kong-based Asia Art Archive digitized their archive and held an exhibition titled, Another Life at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in February 2011.

Biography

Geeta Kapur was born in 1943, to M. N. Kapur and Amrita Kapur. Theatre director Anuradha Kapur is her younger sister. She grew up on the campus of Modern School, New Delhi, where her father was Principal from 1947 to 1977. Her husband is installation artist Vivan Sundaram.
Kapur has an M.A. in Arts from New York University and another M.A. in Arts from the Royal College of Art, London.
She taught in the Humanities and Social Sciences department of IIT Delhi from 1967 to 1973. She lectures internationally and has held Visiting Fellowships at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, and Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in Teen Murti, New Delhi.

Curated exhibitions