Kamayani Sharma

I am a writer, podcaster and translator engaging with the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on visual art, culture and media. 

Formerly a text editor with Art India and researcher with Sarai-CSDS, I now develop and manage the audio content programme for Sharjah Art Foundation*. 

I contribute critical and creative writing to publications,  peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes worldwide, including a popular monthly series for Scroll.in. I was an Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation grantee at TAKE On Art Critical Writing Ensemble 2015, Critic-in-Residence at Dharti Arts Residency 2018, a finalist at the International Award for Art Criticism 2020, selected for the Momus Emerging Critics Residency 2021, recipient of the Kalpalata Fellowship 2022 in Visual Culture Writing and winner of the RedInk Award 2023 for print journalism in the Arts. 

I've contributed texts to Focus Photography Festival 2012, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, and Serendipity Arts Festivals 2018 and 2023. My poetry has appeared in Cha, Fulcrum, Kartika Review, Pratilipi and The Stinging Fly, and in the anthology ‘14 International Younger Poets’ (Arts & Letters, 2021). In February 2024, I curated my first exhibition, Mumkin Zameen at Niv Art Centre, New Delhi. I run South Asia's first independent visual culture podcast - Artaलाप - streaming on all audio apps (Instagram: @art.alaap). 

My translation practice between English and Hindustani spans poetry, prose and art criticism, my first book-length project being a translation of Anu Singh Choudhary's 'Neela Scarf' (HarperCollins India, 2023).

*To listen to the two series I have produced for Sharjah Art Foundation so far, click here and here.