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).

Sudarshan Shetty is one of India’s leading contemporary artists, known for his conceptual and often large-scale sculptural installations. Based in Mumbai, his work explores themes of transience, memory, and the poetics of everyday objects. He has exhibited widely with solo shows at institutions such as Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna), GALLERYSKE (New Delhi and Bangalore), Leila Heller Gallery (Dubai), and Tilton Gallery (New York). Shetty has participated in international exhibitions including the Biennale of Sydney, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Guggenheim Museum (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Tate Modern (London). A recipient of the Charles Wallace India Award and the Sanskriti Award, he holds a BFA in Painting from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai.

A curator and arts educator based in New Delhi, Vidya Shivadas is the Director of FICA and has curated widely at institutions including Vadehra Art Gallery, Devi Art Foundation, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, and Serendipity Arts Festival. Her practice is deeply rooted in critical art discourse, pedagogy and institutional frameworks. Shivadas has been visiting faculty at School of Cultures and Creative Expression, Ambedkar University Delhi since 2014. 

Veeranganakumari Solanki is a curator and writer based in Mumbai, India. Her curatorial practice explores how various creative practices merge to create dialogues in public and private spaces. Her work examines the way historical and contemporary thought informs exhibition-making and expands ideas through narration and storytelling. Focusing on image practices in a global context, Veeranganakumari has been a Brooks International Research Fellow at Tate Modern, a resident at Delfina Foundation, and a Programme Director at Space Studio and The Gujral Foundation. She is also a Co-Director of the SqW:Lab Foundation and a part of the advisory committee of the Piramal Photography Gallery at NCPA, Mumbai.