MEET OUR DIRECTOR
Abhay Maskara is the Curatorial Director of Gallery Maskara in Mumbai. Over the past 15 years, he has curated more than 50 exhibitions that consistently challenge preconceived notions of art. In 2012, Maskara authored ‘Collecting Art – An Insider’s View of the Indian Art World’. In 2014, he was invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and continues to champion contemporary art in India and abroad.
When Maskara is not curating, he is busy making art. Best known for his portraits of the lost tribes of the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia, landscapes of Namibia, and globally threatened birds of the Himalayan region. In 2021, he directed the award-winning film “The Last Continent: In Pursuit of Antarctica.”
"There is no art without a (cultural, political and artistic) context and every artist/viewer has got a certain background, but radical art creates its own context and almost ‘the magic’ of visual art, is that even if you don’t know the source of inspiration of the artist, an artwork still can trigger imagination, can touch and move a person."
