Ranjit HoskoteRanjit Hoskote has been acclaimed as a seminal contributor to Indian art criticism and curatorial practice, and is a leading Indian poet. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 206), Central Time (Penguin/Viking, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2018; published by Arc in the UK as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020), and Hunchprose (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2021). His translation of a fourteenth-century Kashmiri woman mystic's poems has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011). Hoskote curated India's first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). He co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim (2008). Among his curatorial projects are a mid-career retrospective of Atul Dodiya (National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2013), a monographic exhibition of M. F. Husain (Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, 2019), and three transhistorical and trans-genre exhibitions developed for the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa: Terra Cognita? (2016), Anti-Memoirs (2017), and The Sacred Everyday (2018). With Rahul Mehrotra and Kaiwan Mehta, Hoskote co-curated the exhibition/conference platforms The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India (National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2016) and State of Housing: Aspirations, Imaginaries and Realities (Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, 2018). Read More Read Less