Kanika Anand is the Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary and co-curator of the Indian Ceramics Triennale.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Delhi University and a Master’s degree in Art History from the National Museum Institute, India. She has been curatorial fellow at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (2012-13) and fellow at the Global Cultural Leadership Programme, organised by the Cultural Diplomacy Platform and the European Cultural Foundation (2018).
She has worked extensively with galleries and institutions across North America, France and India and has worked on major exhibitions of work by Yoko Ono, Chitra Ganesh, Paola Pivi, Carol Sawyer and Marcel Dzama.
Her curatorial approach focuses on placemaking and social practices that interrogate structures of power and modes of engagement. Constucts of time and space are a keen area of interest and research.