Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, and curator. He has been pivotal to shaping contemporary art discourse in India, and in registering multiple cultural issues, artistic domains, and moments of history. He has been honoured with prestigious awards like the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, the Sanskriti Award for Literature, the SH Raza Award for Literature, and the 7th Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry.

Hoskote curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) and was co-curator, with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim, of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008). Since 1993, he has curated numerous exhibitions of visual art, both in India and internationally: these include museum retrospectives of major artists such as Jehangir Sabavala (NGMA, Mumbai and Delhi, 2005-06), Atul Dodiya (NGMA Delhi, 2013) and MF Husain (Mathaf Museum of Modern Art, Doha, 2019), as well as transhistorical research-oriented exhibitions such as The Sacred Everyday: Embracing the Risk of Difference (Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2018).