Lanka Tattersall is MoMA’s Laurenz Foundation Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints. At MoMA, her exhibitions include Vital Signs: Artists and the Body (2024) and Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. (with Peter Eleey, 2022). Tattersall is part of the curatorial team focused on the Museum’s contemporary collection galleries, and she organized The Modern Window: Caroline Kent (2022) and The Modern Window: Derrick Adams (2021). Previously, she was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized the exhibitions Cameron Rowland: D37 (2018), Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin (2018), and Lauren Halsey: we still here, there (2018), among others. At MOCA, she spearheaded a number of important commissions and performances, including works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Rafa Esparza, Juliana Huxtable, and P. Staff. She holds graduate degrees in art history from Columbia University and Harvard University.
Rajyashri Goody (b. 1990) queries food and water politics, Ambedkarite Buddhist practices, literacy and Dalit literature, and mobility and place-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. She works primarily with paper pulp, clay, text, photography, and printmaking. What follows is an abbreviated account of Goody’s session with the C-MAP Bombay/Mumbai Group.…
Gulammohammed Sheikh (b. 1937) is an artist, pedagogue, and writer known for his prolific career across practices that include curating and publishing. Sheikh taught art history and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda—the foremost institute for avant-garde practice during the post-Independence period—for almost three decades, spearheading an…
