Premjish Achari

Premjish Achari is a Curator and Writer. 

His curations include the exhibitions ‘Imperial Silhouettes: Shadows of Sovereignty’ (Rai, Abu Dhabi, 2024-25), ‘Luminous Reveries’ (Travancore Palace, Delhi 2024) 'Inscapes: In Search of a Place' (Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2023), 'Things are vanishing before us'  (Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2023), Student's Biennale for Kochi Biennale Edition (2022-2023), 'All Canaries Bear Watching,' part of the Indo-UK collaboration GRID Heritage Project, SAA/JNU, Delhi (2022); 'A Time for Farewells' (Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2019). Premjish was the editorial supervisor of Lokame Tharavadu ('The World Is One Family,' 2021), a major contemporary art survey exhibition organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He was the recipient of the Pro Helvetia Art Writers' Award 2021, followed by a residency at Atelier Mondial, Basel, and published 'Lure of Collaboration: Dissecting Consensus' for Take on Art; Prameya Art Foundation's Art Scribes Award, including a residency at Château de La Napoule, France. His articles have been published in ‘Portrait of an Artist as an Individual,’ Altaf: Early Drawings' by Delhi Art Gallery (2023), 'Iconic: Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art Edition 2 Volume 1' by Delhi Art Gallery (2023), ‘Traversing the “Blind Spot”: Art Pedagogy and the Student Biennale,’ in Unframed Edited by Rahab Allana, Harper Design, 2023. 

He conceptualized and initiated the Kaee Kolkata City Lab. He is currently working as a Curator at KNMA, Delhi.