Pooja Sood is the Director of APT Mumbai. She is also the curator of both Khoj and Apeejay, both located in New Delhi. Founded in 1997, Khoj International Artists Workshop is an artist-run organization that coordinates residencies for international and local artists to live and work in New Delhi. Every year, 8-10 artists are selected from a pool of applicants to live and work in New Delhi for six weeks. An exhibition and open studio, lectures in arts institutions, and projects in the villages around New Delhi are also organized according to the artists' and communities' interests.

Apeejay Media Gallery opened in March 2002 with an exhibition of works by seminal Indian new media artist Nalini Malani. Since then, the gallery has mounted exhibitions that intersperse promotion of new media art activities in India with cultural exchange programs bringing contemporary art from Beijing, Geneva, Paris, and most recently Mexico City, to New Delhi. Apeejay Press has published Video Art in India (2003), which documents the work of Malani, Sheba Chhachhi, Vivan Sundaram, and Navjot Altaf, as well as a number of younger artists. The gallery has been designed to provide an innovative spatial experience that complements the progressive art on view.

Sharan Apparao is one of India’s leading contemporary art gallerists, producing exhibitions in Delhi, Mumbai and Madras. From her start in 1984, Apparao Gallery has been seen as an important force in the Indian art community. Ms. Apparao has promoted the careers of some of the most important artists in Indian art today.

Associated with contemporary art for close to two decades, Apparao has expanded her activities worldwide to meet the growing needs of Indian artists and the growing community of collectors focusing on the art of the sub-continent. Known for her ability to identify promising talent, Ms. Apparao has nurtured the careers of many young artists. An art historian by training, she has explored the idea of the Indian Diaspora through numerous curated shows and publications.

Shireen Gandhy was brought up in a family of art dealers. Her parents, Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy, started Gallery Chemould in 1963 and ran the gallery until she took over in 1988. Gandhy received a degree in Arts Administration from City University in London, during which she interned at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Following the completion of her degree, she returned to India to run the gallery alongside her parents and gradually took over full time. In 1989 she curated Atul Dodiya’s first solo show.

Under Shireen's directorship, the gallery has continued to be at the forefront of contemporary Indian art, identifying and supporting emerging and well-established artists from around the country. In 1995, Gandy (with Geeta Kapur) co-curated the Indian section of the first Johannesburg Biennale. She was co-curator/coordinator of Fire and Life, an Indo-Australian artist residency exchange. In 2003, Gallery Chemould celebrated its 40th anniversary with an exhibition spanning the gallery’s four decades at the National Gallery of Modern Art.

An artist and dealer, Peter Nagy was a fixture in the 80’s New York East Village art scene. Moving to New Delhi in 1992, Nagy decided to focus on Indian contemporary art, and over the past decade has developed a reputation as an important gallerist and curator in the emerging Indian art community.

Mr. Nagy has produced a number of memorable exhibitions including Publicity for Amusement at Gallery Chemould in Mumbai; So Much Deathless at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York; and A Soft History of Imhotep at Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois in Paris.

Widely published as an artist and a curator, he has been featured in magazines and books such as Jamini, ArtInvestor, Art AsiaPacific, Artforum, The Financial Express, Art + Auction, and India Today. In 2003, Mr. Nagy was given the Habitat Award for Curatorial Excellence at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi for his devotion and commitment to Indian contemporary art.