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 South and West Asia.
Alongside her role as Head of Editorial and Content Strategy at Sharjah Art Foundation, she is currently working on a book about the transition from modernism to contemporary art in Sri Lanka.
Her writing has appeared in monographs (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 Khoj International Artists’ Association, Rapporteur and Editor of City as Studio 02 and 03 at Sarai-CSDS in New Delhi as well as a Forum Fellow at the Global Art Forum.
She served as an evaluator for the Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant as well as a jury member for the Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant and Art Scribes Award.
In 2014, she was awarded Forbes India Emerging Art Writer of the Year award, and in 2017 she won First Prize at the International Awards for Art Criticism.
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