Biography

Indra Khanna is a curator working in contemporary visual arts since 2003, developing projects independently and in partnership with established institutions such as mac birmingham, Deptford X, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, New Art Exchange, Aberystwyth Art Centre, Oriel Davies, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and The British Museum.

Originally trained as a fine art printmaker at Cardiff and Chelsea, she worked as a practising artist, community artist and art teacher for fifteen years before moving into curatorial practice. She has been an active member of grass roots artists’ groups including the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales, The Printmakers Council, Stockwell Independent Artists Group, Women’s Work and Brixton Artists Collective. From 2006 to 2009 she was a member of the London regional board of the Arts Council of England.

From 2003 to 2010 Khanna worked at Autograph ABP, where she developed artist commissions, publications and exhibitions, eventually becoming Curator. Since 2010 she has been Studio Curator for Hew Locke. From 2018 to 2020 she was Curatorial Advocate for Dinu Li, and in 2018 she founded the Caribbean Artists’ Salon. From 2020 to 2022 she was Artistic Advisor to the Litehouse Gallery.

Alongside her curatorial work, Khanna mentors artists, writes, gives curatorial presentations, project manages artist projects and writes successful funding applications. Her clients include All Souls College Oxford, Yale Centre for British Art, The British Museum, New Art Gallery Walsall, Hatchery Arts, Camden Art Centre, Royal Academy of Arts, a-n,  and Middlesex University.

Selected Projects

• Hew Locke: What Have We Here?, assistant curator, British Museum, 2024.  Co-author of catalogue
• Five Years On, group exhibition, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, commissioned by New Arts West Midlands, 2018
• Tim Shaw, editor and contributor, monograph published by Sansom & Co., 2015
• Black Smoke Rising, solo exhibition by Tim Shaw, mac Birmingham and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2014
• Alieni Iuris, solo exhibition by Doug Jones, mac Birmingham, 2011; Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, 2012
• Deptford X, joint lead artist-curator with Hew Locke, London, 2011–12
• British Summertime II, professional development programme for Birmingham-based artists, Arts Council England initiative delivered with The New Art Gallery Walsall and mac Birmingham, 2011
• Pork Knocker Dreams, solo exhibition by Donald Locke, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2009; 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