Aditi Ghildiyal (India) seeks meaningful ways to make art accessible and inclusive, while engaging critically with questions of history, ecology, gender, popular culture, and urban geographies. Her research and curatorial interests lie in tracing linkages between the artistic pedagogies, movements, and practices that emerged in the Indian subcontinent during the twentieth century and their resonances in contemporary times.
During the residency, she will engage with curators and experts across museums and galleries to learn from their experience in conceptualising, designing, and sustaining models of public engagement. She will also examine elements of exhibition design that foster meaningful engagement and create moments of pause and reflection within the gallery space.
Aditi Ghildiyal is a curator and writer, currently working as an Associate Curator (Visual Arts) at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from College of Art, New Delhi, and a Master’s in Visual Arts (with a focus on Art History and Aesthetics) from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. In 2021, she received the Raza Foundation Fellowship to write and publish a biography of the art historian and cultural scholar Kapila Vatsyayan.
At KNMA, she has worked on several major retrospectives, including Of Worlds Within Worlds, a retrospective of Gulammohammed Sheikh; The Rooted Nomad: M. F. Husain, presented during the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); and Raghu Rai: A Thousand Lives – Photographs from 1965–2005 (2024). In her previous role as the Assistant Curator at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi her curatorial projects included The Place Called Body | Aditya Puthur (2023); Breaking the Mould – Emerging Artists from Baroda (co-curated, 2022); Arrested Affections | Nilanjan Das (2022); Her Mind Lives in a Palace | Ekta Singha (2021); Deserted Scapes | Bharti Verma (2021); and The Nest (2020).
She also initiated the museum’s Curated Walkthroughs Series, featuring regular walkthroughs led by in-house curators and invited experts from fields such as literature, history, art, and architecture, offering diverse perspectives on the art.
Aditi was born in New Delhi, where she continues to live and work.
With support from:
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Artist’s website
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