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, Diane Arbus, Carol Sawyer and Marcel Dzama.
From 2015-2018, she founded and programmed Parked-At, a nomadic exhibition platform that focused on alternative modes of viewing, engagement and participation. She has written for national and international art publications including Art Basel and Ocula. She has served as head project manager and editor of the seven-volume series of published research essays for Serendipity Arts Festival, India (2017-18), and has written for the coffee table book Fairs and Festivals of Rajasthan.
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.