Nancy Adajania

About Nancy Adajania

Nancy Adajania is a Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator. She has curated a number of major research-based exhibitions including the Nelly Sethna retrospective (Chatterjee & Lal with Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay, 2021); 'Zigzag Afterlives: Film Experiments from the 1960s and 1970s in India' (Camden Art Centre, London, 2020); the Sudhir Patwardhan retrospective (NGMA, Bombay with The Guild Art Gallery, 2019); 'Counter-Canon, Counter-Culture: Alternative Histories of Indian Art' (Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2019) and the Navjot Altaf retrospective (NGMA, Bombay with The Guild, 2018-2019). Adajania was the juror for the Video/Film/New Media fellowship cycle of the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2015-2017). During 2013/2014, Adajania taught the curatorial practice course at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. In 2012, she was joint artistic director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale.In 2021, she conceptualised and led an online curatorial workshop, ‘Once Upon a Cultural Famine: A Curatorial Thought Experiment’, for the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Her book The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf, The Guild, 2016, expanded the scope of the art-historical monograph in several directions, retrieving previously under-regarded political and cultural histories while weaving together the intersecting intellectual biographies of the artist and the author.