Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur is a critic and curator. Her essays are extensively anthologized; her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000), Speech Acts (2025), Critic's Compass: Navigating Practice (forthcoming 2025). She was a founder-editor of Journal of Arts & Ideas , advisory board member of Third Text and Marg . Her curatorial projects include: 'Dispossession', Johannesburg Biennale (1995); 'Bombay/Mumbai' (co-curator,...See more

Geeta Kapur is a critic and curator. Her essays are extensively anthologized; her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000), Speech Acts (2025), Critic's Compass: Navigating Practice (forthcoming 2025). She was a founder-editor of Journal of Arts & Ideas , advisory board member of Third Text and Marg . Her curatorial projects include: 'Dispossession', Johannesburg Biennale (1995); 'Bombay/Mumbai' (co-curator, Ashish Rajadhyaksha), Century City , Tate Modern, London (2001); 'subTerrain', House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003); 'Aesthetic Bind', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (five exhibitions, 2013-14). She is a Trustee of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF), Delhi, and general editor of the Art Documents series published by SSAF-Tulika Books. See less