Kanika Anand is a curator and writer. She currently serves as 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). 

Her curatorial projects have included exhibitions with Paola Pivi, Kenneth Tam, Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, and Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, alongside contributions to survey exhibitions of Yoko Ono, Marcel Dzama, and Chitra Ganesh.

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.