Nancy Adajania is a Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator. She was joint artistic director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2012). She has curated several exhibitions including, One Hundred Years And Counting: Rescripting K G Subramanyan (Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath with Emami/Seagull, 2025) and Woman Is As Woman Does (CSMVS Museum with JNAF, 2022), a first-ever intergenerational mapping of the works of Indian women artists, filmmakers and activists against the backdrop of the women’s movement in India.
Adajania’s The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf (The Guild, 2016) expanded the scope of the art-historical monograph by retrieving previously under-regarded political and cultural histories. Her curatorial monograph on the Sudhir Patwardhan retrospective (Walking Through Soul City, 2019) includes a rare contextual mapping of the relationship between leftist politics and art, annotated through a translation of primary textual material from Marathi activist literature.
