Bio:

Anupam Roy is a visual artist, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art, Media and Performance, Shiv Nadar University, SNIOE, Greater Noida since December 2022. Anupam has a master’s in visual arts from Ambedkar University Delhi (2016). A recipient of the Charles Wallace long-term scholarship (2019-2020), Anupam completed a second master’s degree, in Fine Arts, at the De Montfort University Leicester, UK (2020). Anupam’s artistic practice emerges from a long-term engagement with the Indian hinterland and its peoples, and dissents against the dominating dystopian regimes. His work has featured in the 2018 New Museum Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New York, Historical Materialism, Montreal, as well as group shows, and art fairs including the Frieze Art Fair, London; Indian Art Fair, Delhi. In 2019, Anupam has his first solo show at Project 88 Mumbai. In December 2022, the Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi, hosted his second solo exhibition. Anupam is a recipient of the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art Emerging Artists Award (2018).  He has presented his works, and participated in several seminars, panel discussions and workshops, at institutions such as SOAS, London and Bordeaux Montaigne University.

Prof. Yashadatta Somaji Alone (born 1963) teaches at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests and publications are on Ancient Indian Art, Buddhist caves in western India, critic of modern Indian art, popular neo-Buddhist visual culture, interpretative framework of Dr. Ambedkar and social sciences. He presented research papers at national and international art-history and social sciences seminars, and conferences at many places in India and abroad. He has lectured widely in India and outside mainly in Germany, Spain, USA, China. He was nominated as ICCR chair visiting Professor in Shenzhen University China, and was invited as short-term visiting professor at Renmin University Beijing, ECNU Shanghai, Autonoma University Madrid, Heidelberg University Germany. He has been engaged in popular lectures as part of social movements. He served as member of various committees of the Government of India. His recently published book-‘Early Western Indian Buddhist Caves: Forms and Patronage’, Kaveri Books, New Delhi, 2014. He has evolved a critical conceptual formulation termed as ‘protected ignorance’ and has published papers on it. His recent curation is "Dismantling Aesthetics of Inhibition: Representing difference" at OED gallery Kochi Dec 22-Jan 23.