b. 1956, Mysore, Karnataka
Vasudha Thozhur is an inter-disciplinary artist whose practice is primarily rooted in painting. She lived and worked in Chennai between 1981–1997, and in Baroda between 1997–2013. She is one of the core faculty that set up the Dept. of Art, Media and Performance at Shiv Nadar University, NCR, and in 2024 curated ‘Art and the Field: Context and Materiality’ as a comprehensive compilation of students’ work over the last decade. She taught as an Associate Professor and later Professor until 2024.
Earlier institutional work has involved lectures/teaching/juries at MS University Baroda, NID/Ahmedabad, IICD/Jaipur. She was one of the five curators for the Students’ Biennale 2020/21.
Two grants from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore supported a collaboration with Himmat, an activist organization based in Vatva, Ahmedabad, between 2002–2007. The outcome, entitled ‘Beyond Pain: An Afterlife” was exhibited in Mumbai in 2013 (at Sakshi Gallery and Project 88) and in 2015 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Among grants received earlier are the French Government Scholarship to work at the Cite des Arts, Paris and the Charles Wallace Grant to work at Gasworks, London.
Vasudha Thozhur/Diaries, Projects, Pedagogy 1998–2018, is the first of a series entitled Art Documents and was published by Tulika Books in association with the Sundaram Sher Gil Foundation in 2021.
