Nainvi Vora

Nainvi Vora

Nainvi Vora is an art historian and curator specialising in South Asian modern and contemporary art with a focus on feminist historiography, transnational modernisms, and alternative archival frameworks. She was formerly Associate Curator at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and holds postgraduate degrees in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the Curatorial Resident at the Delfina Foundation (2025), where she developed research and curatorial frameworks around transnational sculptural practice and archives of modernist sculptor Pilloo Pochkhanawala. Her recent curatorial projects include Digitizing the Miniature: Mahnoor Hussain and the Spirit of Feminism (2024) at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

Organic Monumentality: Latika Katt and the Ecologies of Form

by Nainvi Vora

In the histories of post-Independence Indian sculpture, the dominant narratives of modernism have often privileged monumentality, nationalism, and masculine sculptural authority. Yet such frameworks have left comparatively little room for practices that pursued...