Anushka Rajendran’s curatorial practice realizes ideas that emerge from her research about exhibitions, with a focus on arts from South Asia. As an art writer and editor, she facilitates discursive engagement within the arts in India. Her ongoing interests include socially engaged art practices in India and the ways in which aesthetic practices are seeking out publics that fall outside of traditional contemporary art audiences. This is an extension of her previous research and curatorial interest in trauma narratives in contemporary art.

Anushka Rajendran is a New Delhi based curator, writer and researcher. Her ongoing PhD Where lies the Public? Aesthetics of Social Engagement studies how the arts are surpassing traditional publics in India. She has an Ph.M from the Jawaharlal Nehru University during which she wrote Installation Art in India: Preoccupations with Trauma, and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics. Her recent exhibition, The Lay of the Land, charted an alternative cartography for the South Asian region based on experiences of artists rather than political borders. In her upcoming exhibition Corporeal, Rajendran will look at the absent body as a universal/intimate subject position. Rajendran is the Editorial Coordinator of the Indian art magazine TAKE on art, and recipient of the Art Scribes Award 2015.