Director
Latika Gupta has an MPhil in Visual Studies from the School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU. She has received fellowships from the India Foundation for the Arts, Nehru Trust, and the Charles Wallace India Trust. She has worked as a curator at the NGMA, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, curated exhibitions of South Asian and international contemporary art, and the permanent exhibition for an ethnographic museum in Kargil, Ladakh. She has taught at the Dr. BDL Museum’s postgraduate diploma course and has been co-mentor for the Curatorial Intensive South Asia programme (Khoj & Goethe-Institut/MMB) from 2019-2025. From 2016-2020, she was Associate Editor at MARG publications. She teaches courses on Trans- Himalayan visual and material culture as visiting faculty at Ashoka University, Sonipat since 2021. She is a part of the editorial collective of ‘100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object’ and an associate editor of South Asian Studies.
Email: director.projects@ssaf.in
Visual Design, Media & Archives
Sourav Sil is a visual artist and designer. He completed his M.Des in Photography Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. In 2018, he received a scholarship from Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai to study at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. His works have been exhibited in group shows at Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, 2020 and Museo Cabanas, Guadalajara, 2019. He is a recipient of the Space 118 Fine Arts Grant, 2024 and the Young Writers Award, 2022 in Lens-Based Practices supported by Critical Collective and Murthy NAYAK Foundation.
Email: archives@ssaf.in
Manager, Accounts & Administration
Santosh Sahni has been in charge of accounts at SSAF since 2018. He completed his CA (Inter) in 2019 and is pursuing his final CA studies. Prior to SSAF, he has five years of work experience in the corporate sector.
Email: accounts@ssaf.in
Assistant Editor, SSAF–Tulika Books
Anuran Dasgupta is a scholar of Theatre and Performance Studies and has recently completed his PhD at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His MPhil and PhD research explored the history of collaborative networks within the theatre-making practices of various Indian theatre groups and thinkers. His research interests include Indian cultural policy, ecologies of community art and performance, and the critical historiography of Indian theatre and performance traditions. He has presented his work at several international seminars and conferences, including those organized by the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance (ICTMD). In addition to his academic work, Anuran is an experienced theatre practitioner and a trained Hindustani classical vocalist.
Email: publications@ssaf.in
Archives & Communications Assistant
Maithili Bavkar is an artist based in New Delhi, with a Masters in Visual Art from Ambedkar University. She was an Artist-in-Residence at KHOJ PEERS, 2025. She works with text across various mediums: drawings, artist books, installation, photography, and video. Her recent work explores how digital devices archive, mediate, and transform personal and collective forms of remembering. She is currently part of Assembling Art Archives: Workshops for South Asia (Art South Asia Project and Asia Art Archive in India, 2025–2026). Her recent exhibitions include Between Books, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2025); Padithavudan Kizhithuvidavum, Kannadi Cupboard, Chennai (2025); Today is hard to remember, Khoj Studios, New Delhi (2025); Into the Midst, Studio CAMP (2024); TEXTXET, FICA, New Delhi (2023) and group exhibitions with The Crown Letter Project at Institut français de Prague (2023) and Fondation Fiminco, Paris (2021).
Email: communications@ssaf.in
Gayatri Uppal is an arts professional based in New Delhi. She was with the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF) for nearly eight years, from its very inception in 2016 up to 2024. Handling the Foundation’s office singly for the first several years, she worked closely with SSAF’s Founder and Managing Trustee, Vivan Sundaram, as Programme Coordinator; from February 2021 to February 2024 she was Associate Director, Grants. She is the advertising associate for Artforum in India, the Middle East and Turkey. She has been a curator of programmes at Khoj International Artists’ Association and an independent programme manager. Gayatri completed a Master’s in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. She participated in the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014.