Vidya Shivadas is a curator and art critic based in New Delhi. Working at the Vadehra Art Gallery since 2002, she has curated exhibitions like Faiza Butt, Ruby Chishti, Masooma Syed (three Pakistani women artists) (April 2009), Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction in India (1970s – 2008) (April 2008), Objects: Making/Unmaking (April 2007) and Are We Like This Only (March 2005). In 2009 she was a guest curator at Devi Art Foundation and worked on the solo exhibition of Bangladeshi artist Mahbubur Rahman. In her researcher capacity, she is interested in the relationship between art institutions and art practice.