Vidya Shivadas

Vidya Shivadas is a curator and art critic based in New Delhi. After completing her Masters in Art Criticism from Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Vadodara in 2000 and a brief stint as an art reporter in the national daily The Indian Express, she joined the Vadehra Art Gallery as a curator in 2002. She has curated a series of exhibitions at the Gallery which include Something I’ve been meaning to tell you (with Sunil Gupta), April 2011; ID/entity, November 2010 (with Bhooma Padmanabhan and Julia Villasenor); Faiza Butt, Ruby Chishti, Masooma Syed (three Pakistani women artists), April 2009; Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction in India (1970s – 2008), April 2008; Objects: Making/Unmaking, April 2007 and Are We Like This Only, March 2005. In 2009 she was a guest curator at Devi Art Foundation, India’s first private contemporary art museum, and worked on the solo exhibition of Bangladeshi artist Mahbubur Rahman.