Manan Shah is a museologist, curator and writer. Born and brought up in Kasheer (Kashmir), he has published widely in magazines and journals including, TAKE on Art, STIRworld.com, Inverse Journal, History is Now Magazine, World History Encyclopedia, among others. His writings and curatorial practices are attentive to the knowledge systems of antiquity that have informed the current-day cultural and political identity of South Asia. Shah is a recipient of the Kochi Biennale Curatorial Fellowship and has been part of India Art Fair’s Young Collectors Programme as an assistant curator. His curatorial ventures including Which Sky do Birds Fly (2023) and Scripted Selves: Sutures of Signs and Symbol (2024) have been part of LATITUDE 28’s exhibition calendar. Shah also curated a research-based photo project, A Home in the Constant Flux: A Call to the Verb Memory Simurgh Centre, Goethe Institute, New Delhi (2023), Arthshila, Santiniketan (2024) and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi (2024). He was the programme assistant to the curatorial symposium Horizon and Perspective: Curatorial Gaze to Gauge Promise of Art, part of TAKE on Writing series (2023). Currently, based in New Delhi, Shah, is a co-founder of Dastāvez Collective and is working as an editorial and programme assistant at TAKE on Art, part of the curatorial team at LATITUDE 28.
