Photos: 2019 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honoree Akbar Padamsee and art critic Geeta Kapur
Guests and poet Gieve Patel
Guests meet Akbar Padamsee
Guests at the ceremony honoring Akbar Padamsee
From left to right: Bunty Chand, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Society India Centre; Akbar Padamsee; Pheroza Godrej; and Sangita Jindal
From left to right: Sangita Jindal, English scholar Homi K. Bhabha, Pheroza Godrej, Akbar Padamsee, Geeta Kapur, Bunty Chand, independent curator Nancy Adajania, and Gieve Patel
From left to right: Homi K. Bhabha, Gieve Patel, Geeta Kapur, and Nancy Adajania
From left to right: Homi K. Bhabha, Nancy Adajania, Gieve Patel, and Geeta Kapur
From left to right: Nancy Adajania, Gieve Patel and Geeta Kapur
Back row, from left to right: artist Atul Dodiya; his daughter Biraaj Dodiya; and his wife, artist Anju Dodiya; front row: Akbar Padamsee
Homi K. Bhabha and Akbar Padamsee
Kaoru Miyamoto, Director General, Japan Foundation, New Delhi
Photographer and curator Ram Rahman
Birgid Uccia (left) and art critic Geeta Kapur (right)
From left to right: artist Vivan Sundaram, Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honoree Gulammohammed Sheikh, guest, and artist Paramjit Singh
From left to right: AdamSzymczyk, Aparajita Jain, and Noelle Kadar
Artists Gulammohammed Sheikh and Atul Dodiya
Geeta Kapur and artist Arpita Singh
Hero Enterprise Chairman Sunil Kant Munjal
Bunty Chand, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Society India Centre
Pheroza Godrej, Co-Chair, 2019 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Guests at the 2019 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Guests and Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honoree Vibha Galhotra (right)
Guest and art collector Radhika Chopra
From left to right: Bose Krishnamachari, Shwetal Patel, Pushpamala N., and Adam Szymczyk
Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani
Boon Hui Tan, Vice President of Global Arts & Cultural Programs and Director of Asia Society Museum
ART India editor Abhay Sardesai
Radhika Chopra (left) presents Vibha Galhotra the Asia Arts Future Award
Asia Arts Future Award honoree Yang Yongliang
Yang Yongliang receives the Asia Arts Future Award from Arpita Singh
Roobina Karode, Director and Chief Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Pheroza Godrej presents Gulammohammed Sheikh the Asia Arts Vanguard Award
Asia Arts Vanguard honoree Gulammohammed Sheikh
From left to right: poet Ashok Vajpeyi, Pheroza Godrej, and artist Nilima Sheikh
From left to right: Nilima Sheikh, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Pheroza Godrej, and Geeta Kapur
Guests at the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Guests at the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
The 2019 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honorees Vibha Galhotra, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Yang Yongliang
From left to right: Bunty Chand, Radhika Chopra, Vibha Galhotra, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Yang Yongliang, Pheroza Godrej, and Boon Hui Tan
Pheroza Godrej and Namita Saraf
Guests at the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Guests at the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Michelle Yun, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum, New York and artist Reena Saini Kallat
Mumbai
On January 18, 2019, as a part of this year’s Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India, Akbar Padamsee was honored at a special felicitation ceremony during Mumbai Gallery Weekend at the historic Pundole Art Gallery. The intimate afternoon reception was followed by a discussion with Nancy Adajania, Homi K. Bhabha, Geeta Kapur, and Gieve Patel.
In attendance were Atul and Anju Dodiya, Saryu Doshi, Pheroza Godrej, Sangita Jindal, Akbar and Bhanu Padamsee, Sudhir and Shanta Patwardhan, and Dadiba and Khorshed Pundole.
Delhi
On February 1, 2019, Asia Society India Centre and Asia Society Museum, New York, presented the third Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India in New Delhi, honoring artists Vibha Galhotra, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Yang Yongliang.
Over 140 guests comprised of artists, academics, collectors, gallerists, and curators gathered to celebrate the occasion. The spectacular evening, co-chaired by Pheroza Godrej and Sangita Jindal, began with a live jazz performance by Jason Hammers and Pranai Gurung.
Some of the notable attendees included Nadir Patel, High Commissioner of Canada to India; artists Atul and Anju Dodiya, Arpita and Paramjit Singh, and Vivan Sundaram; and collectors Amal and Nissar Allana, Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani, and Padma Vattikuti.