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{{short description|Indian art critic, art historian, and curator}}
{{distinguish|text=Indian choreographer [[Geeta Kapoor]]}}
{{External links|date=September 2020}}
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'''Geeta Kapur''' (born 1943) is a noted [[India]]n [[art critic]], [[art historian]] and [[curator]] based in [[New Delhi]].<ref>[http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/76/161 Geeta Kapur bio] [[MoMA]].</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage|author= Holland Cotter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/arts/design/29femi.html |work=[[New York Times]] |quote=the renowned critic Geeta Kapur from Delhi had to represent..|date=29 January 2007 }}</ref> She was one of the pioneers of art critical writing in India,<ref>{{cite news |title=Fight for art's sake |url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/06/08/stories/2008060850200700.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611052213/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/06/08/stories/2008060850200700.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 June 2008 |quote=..Ms. Kapur, who is a pioneer of art critical writing in India..|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=8 Jun 2008 }}</ref> and who as ''[[Indian Express]]'' noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemporary art theory for three decades now".<ref>{{cite news |title=Culture Control|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/2013/ |newspaper=[[Indian Express]] |date=5 May 2002 }}</ref> Her writings include artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues, books, and sets of widely anthologized essays on art, film, and cultural theory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kapur-geeta|title=Kapur Geeta|website=iniva|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref>

One of the founder-editors of ''[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/artsandideas/ Journal of Arts & Ideas]'' (Delhi), she has also been on the advisory boards of ''[[Third Text]]'' (London)'', [[Marg (magazine)|Marg]]'' (Mumbai)'','' and ''[https://artmargins.com/ ARTMargins]''. She was a jury member of the [[Biennale of Venice|Biennales of Venice]] (2005), [[Biennale of Dakar|Dakar]] (2006), and Sharjah (2007). She is a member of the [https://www.guggenheim.org/asian-art-initiative/asian-art-council Asian Art Council] at the Guggenheim Museum, [[Asia Art Archive|Asian Art Archive]] in Hong Kong, and the [[Kochi-Muziris Biennale]].

She was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] for her contribution to Art by the Government of India in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009) |publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2013 }}</ref>

In 2011, Hong Kong-based [https://aaa.org.hk/en Asia Art Archive] (AAA) digitized their archive and held an exhibition titled, ''Another Life'' at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi in February 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/2011/02/18204557/The-byte-of-history.html|title=The byte of history|date=18 Feb 2011|publisher=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]}}</ref>

==Biography==

Geeta Kapur was born in 1943, to [[M. N. Kapur]] and Amrita Kapur. Theatre director [[Anuradha Kapur]] is her younger sister.<ref name="modernismbook">{{cite book |last1=Kapur |first1=Geeta |title=When was Modernism: Essays on Contemporay Cultural Practice in India |date=2000 |publisher=Tulika |isbn=81-85229-14-7 |page=xv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMWfAAAAMAAJ&q=anuradha |access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref> She grew up on the campus of Modern School, New Delhi, where her father was Principal from 1947 to 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.modernschool.net/history-principals|title=Principals - Modern School|access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref> Her husband is installation artist [[Vivan Sundaram]].

Kapur has an M.A. in Arts from [[New York University]] (1963/63) and another M.A. in Arts from the [[Royal College of Art]], London.<ref>{{cite book |title=Statements :anthology of Indian Prose in English|author=Adil Jusswalla|author2=Eunice De Souza |year=1989|publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=0-86125-263-2 |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbaxWB70tvIC&q=geeta+kapur&pg=PA153 }}</ref>

She taught in the Humanities and Social Sciences department of [[IIT Delhi]] from 1967 to 1973. She lectures internationally and has held Visiting Fellowships at the [[Indian Institute of Advanced Study]] in Shimla, [[Clare Hall, Cambridge|Clare Hall]] at the University of Cambridge, and [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library]] in Teen Murti, New Delhi.<ref>[http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/k/kapur_geeta Geeta Kapur, Curator, Writer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311024811/http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/k/kapur_geeta |date=11 March 2009 }} [[InIVA]] website.</ref>

==Curated exhibitions==
* ''Pictoral Space'', [[Rabindra Bhavan]], Delhi, 1977.
* ''Focus: 4 Painters 4 Directions'', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 1979.
* ''[[Contemporary Indian Art (Exhibition)|Contemporary Indian Art]]'', [[Royal Academy of Arts]], London, 1982 (with [[Richard Bartholomew]] and [[Akbar Padamsee]]).
* ''Hundred Years: From the NGMA Collection'', [[National Gallery of Modern Art]], New Delhi, 1994.
*''<nowiki/>'Dispossession' in Africus: Johannesburg Biennale'', Transitional Metropolitan Council, Johannesburg, 1995 (with Shireen Gandhy)
* ''Century Art: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis'', [[Tate Modern]], London, 2001 (with Ashish Rajadhyaksha).
* ''Sub Terrain: Artworks in the Cityfold'', [[Haus der Kulturen der Welt]], Berlin, 2003.
* ''Crossing Generations diVerge: Forty Years of Gallery Chemould'', [[National Gallery of Modern Art]], Mumbai, 2003 (with Chaitanya Sambrani).
* ''Aesthetic Bind - Citizen Artist: forms of address'', [[Chemould Prescott Road]], Mumbai, 2013-2014.

==Books==
* Geeta Kapur. ''Contemporary Indian Artists'', Vikas Pub. 1978. {{ISBN|978-0-7069-0527-4}}.
* Apinan Poshyananda, Thomas McEveilley, Geeta Kapur and others. ''Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions, Tensions'', 1997.
* Geeta Kapur, ''When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India'', 2000.
* Jean-Hubert Martin, Geeta Kapur and others, ''Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating'', Tulika, 2007. {{ISBN|81-85229-14-7}}.
* Sabeena Gadihoke, Geeta Kapur and Christopher Pinney, ''Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh'', 2010.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.webofstories.com/play/52722 Video] discussing Geeta Kapur's influence.
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