Pooja Sood is the Director of KHOJ International Artists’ Association,an autonomous, artists’ led registered society aimed at promoting intercultural understanding through experimentation and exchange. It is possibly the only such public organization for experimental contemporary art in India. In New Delhi, she has developed a radical space for alternative art practice at the KHOJ studios, which runs workshops, international residency programmes and diverse projects.
She was the Curator of the Apeejay Media Gallery, the first and only dedicated new media gallery in India from 2002-2008. From 1994 to 1998, she was the Director of the Eicher Gallery in New Delhi, during which she curated over 20 exhibitions. As an independent curator, she was appointed Artistic Director and curator of 48C Public.Art.Ecology, the first public art project in India commissioned by the Goethe Insitute, and GTZ New Delhi in December 2008. It included commissioning 25 art projects by renowned Indian and International artists. She curated KHOJ LIVE 08, a live arts Festival in March 2008. She has co curated the exhibition “Have we met?” with curators from Indonesia, Japan and Thailand for the Japan Foundation in 2004. She has curated several touring exhibitions in India and abroad .The Exhibition “From Goddess to Pinup: icons of femininity in Indian Calendar Art” which she co-curated with anthropologist Dr Patricia Uberoi has toured Fukuoka , Amsterdam, Vienna, Vancouver and New York.
Sood is the editor of the The KHOJ BOOK : 1997-2007 contemporary art practice in India, published by Harper Collins, 2010. She has written on art for the Art India magazine and is the editor of several catalogues including the first publication of Indian video art , “Video Art in India”, 2003. She is currently working on a book on the 48C Public.Art.Ecology project.
Sood has am MA in Art History (1990-92) From Punjab University, Chandigarh; an MBA in Marketing (1984-86) from the Symbiosis Institute Of Business Management, Pune. She is married and lives and works in New Delhi, India.
