Photos: 2017 Asia Arts Awards India
Guests at the 2017 Asia Arts Awards India. Far left: V Sunil. Center, far side of table: Artist Kartik Sood. Front right: Tasneem Mehta, director of Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai.
Foreground: 2017 Asia Arts Awards India honoree Krishen Khanna. Background from left: Pheroza Godrej and Bim Bissell, cofounder of FabIndia.
From left to right: Artist Aparajita Jain; Peter Nagy, founder of Gallery Nature Morte; and Ranjana Steinruecke, cofounder of Galerie Steinruecke + Mirchandani.
From left to right: Sudarshan Shetty, Radhika Chopra, and 2017 Asia Arts Future Award recipient Abir Karmakar.
Mongolian Ambassador to India Gonchig Ganbold and his wife Mash Badrakh.
Artists Anju Dodiya and Shanay Jhaveri.
From left to right: Asad Lalljee, founder of Avid Learning; art patron Radhika Chopra; and Mortimer Chatterjee, cofounder of Chatterjee & Lal gallery.
Boon Hui Tan, Vice President of Global Arts & Cultural Programs and Director of Asia Society Museum, and art patron Mary Rajkumar.
Opening address by Bunty Chand, CEO of Asia Society India Centre.
From left to right: Bunty Chand, Suhel Seth, and 2017 Asia Arts Awards India co-chair Pheroza Godrej.
Dr. Rajeev Lochan, former director of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Ikkan Sanada, founder of Ikkan Art Gallery, and Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of teamLab, at 2017 Asia Arts Future Award honoree.
International collectors at the 2017 Asia Arts Awards India.
From left to right: Suhel Seth, artist GR Iranna, artist and 2017 Honoree Krishen Khanna, Bose Krishnamachari, and Pheroza Godrej.
Artist Mithu Sen.
Nadir Patel, High Commissioner of Canada to India, and his wife Jennifer Graham.
Preema John, Associate Director Programmes, Asia Society India Centre.
From left to right: Shanay Jhaveri; Abhay Sardesai, editor of ART India magazine; artist Subodh Gupta; and Anju and Atul Dodiya.
Shashi Tharoor and Suhel Seth speak about the importance of arts and culture.
From left to right: artist Tanya Goel; Parul Vadehra, codirector of Vadehra Art Gallery; art consultant Jai Danani; Tarana Sawhney; and Ranjana Steinruecke.
From left to right: Sangita Jindal, co-chair of 2017 Asia Arts Awards India; Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of teamLab; and gallerist Ikkan Sanada.
Artist Krishen Khanna accepting the Asia Arts Vanguard Award.
Vidya Shah, classical Indian singer and musician, and her husband Parthiv Shah.
The inaugural Asia Arts Awards India took place on February 1, 2017, at the Taj Mansingh Hotel in New Delhi. The event brought together major art collectors, artists, gallerists, and dignitaries from around the world to celebrate three Asia Arts Game Changers: Abir Karmakar, Krishen Khanna, and teamLab. Also in attendance were leaders from the political, business, and diplomatic communities. The 2017 Asia Arts Awards India was co-organized by Asia Society Museum, New York, and Asia Society India Centre.