Announcing the Jury | Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant 2023-24

Belinder Dhanoa, novelist, non-fiction writer, and founding faculty member of the M.A. Literary Art/Creative Writing practice programme at Ambedkar University Delhi, is a published creative writer and pedagogue. She has published in a wide range of areas and genres, including fiction, children’s literature and art historical writing; and has been published by publishing houses such as Penguin Books, Zubaan Books, Tulika Books, and National Book Trust India. Her most recent work is an extensive documentation of the Kasauli Arts Centre, titled ‘Kasauli Art Centre: 1976-1991’, published by Tulika Books in 2023.

Suresh BV is an artist and teacher. He holds an MA in Painting from Royal College of Art (1985-87), London, and post-diploma and diploma in Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University Baroda (1979-85) and received formal art training from Ken School of Arts, Bangalore (1976-78). He has taught in M.S. University Baroda as full-time faculty, and is currently teaching at the Department of Fine Arts, S.N. School, University of Hyderabad. Suresh’s work has been exhibited as part of Kochi Muziris Biennale (2018), at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, and at Faculty of Fine Arts,Baroda. He has participated in several international and national group exhibitions including Hong Kong Art Fair, China; ‘Destination Asia: Non-Strict Correspondence’ at Almaty’; ‘World Social Forum’ at Nairobi, and ‘Video Art’,South Africa. Suresh has also done several collaborative projects with fellow artists and theatre persons, illustrated children’s books, participated in art camps and conducted numerous workshops on video and intermedia in colleges.

Sanchayan Ghosh is a visual artist and pedagogue. He is currently an Associate Professor at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. He completed his Masters in Painting from Kala Bhavan in 1997 and has been practicing site-specific art as a collective community dialogue leading to numerous forms of public engagements through installation art over the last twenty years. His interest in process based collaborative art activity led him to interact with theater and other performance forms from across India.He has designed plays for NSD Repertory and many of his designed plays have been performed in Bharat Rang Mahotsav since 1998. He was awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship, UK in 2003-2004. He participated in Kochi  Muziris Biennale2012 with a community sound project “Incomplete Circles, Invisible Voices”; in Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka in 2016 with a collective performative project; in Documenta14,Kassel, Germany with an education project “Under The Mango Tree” and conducted a Circle Walk in 2017. He has also been associated with different pedagogy projects in Kala Bhavana, National School of Drama (NSD), FICA (New Delhi) and “Five Million Incidents” of Max Mueller Bhavana, Kolkata.