Jyoti Dhar is an art critic and editor. Over the last two decades she has lived and worked in New Delhi, Colombo and Dubai, writing about contemporary art in and around South Asia.
Her writing has appeared in books (Seher Shah: Of Absence and Weight, 2023; Nasreen Mohamedi: From the Glenbarra Art Museum, 2022; It is Essential to be There: Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives, 2022; and Jitish Kallat, 2018) and periodicals (ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, Aperture, Even, Flash Art, Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia, Isskustvo Arts Journal, Modern Painters, Motherland, post at MoMA, Scroll Projects, Vogue India, WeAreOrlando, and The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka).
She has been Contributing Editor of ArtAsiaPacific, a columnist for The Sunday Times in Sri Lanka and Assistant Editor of The Ceylon Chronicle. She was previously Critic-in-Residence for In Context: Public.Art.Ecology at the Khoj International Artists’ Association, Rapporteur and Editor of City as Studio 02 and 03 at Sarai-CSDS, and a Forum Fellow at Global Art Forum, Art Dubai.
She served as an evaluator of the Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2017 and was a jury member for the Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant in 2023.
She was awarded Forbes India Emerging Art Writer of the Year award in 2014, won First Prize at the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC) 4 in 2017.
She is currently Head of Editorial and Content Strategy at Sharjah Art Foundation.
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