Indra Khanna

Biography

I started curating contemporary visual arts projects in 2003, working either independently or in partnership with established institutions..

Originally trained as a Fine Art Printmaker at Cardiff and Chelsea, I was a practising artist, community artist and art teacher for 15 years before moving into curating.  I have been an active member of grass roots artist's groups such as the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales, Women’s Work and Brixton Artists Collective. From 2006 - 09 I was a member of the London regional board of the Arts Council of England.

From 2003 - 2010 I worked at Autograph ABP, eventually becoming Curator. Here I worked on artist's commissions, publications and exhibitions. I have been Studio Curator for Hew Locke since 2010, and was Curatorial Advocate for Dinu Li from 2018 to 2020. In 2018 I founded the Caribbean Artists' Salon. From  2020 to 2022 I was Artistic Advisor to the Litehouse Gallery.   I mentor artists, give student tutorials, make curatorial presentations, project-manage artist's commissions, and write successful funding applications.  Clients include All Souls College Oxford, New Art Gallery Walsall, Hatchery Arts and Middlesex University.

Projects include -

Five Years On, group show at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, commissioned by New Arts West Midlands 2018

Tim Shaw, editor of, and contributor to, monograph published by Sansom & Co. 2015

Black Smoke Rising, solo show by Tim Shaw at mac, birmingham and Aberystwyth Art Centre 2014

Alieni Iuris, solo show by Doug Jones at mac, birmingham 2011 and Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 2012

Deptford X 2011 & 2012,  joint lead artist-curator with Hew Locke, London

British Summertime II, professional development for Birmingham-based artists.  An Arts Council England initiative delivered in collaboration with The New Art Gallery Walsall and mac birmingham, 2011

Pork Knocker Dreams, solo show by Donald Locke, New Art Exchange, Nottingham 2009 and Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2010

Terra Incognita, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 2007 

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Brockwell Park, London 2004

FlyPitch, Brixton Market, London 2003

I can be contacted on indrakhanna(at)ntlworld.com or via Facebook

All images on this website are © Indra Khanna, unless otherwise indicated.