art history & critcism

January 2021
“Architectural inscriptions of Landscape and Nature in the Subcontinent, 1945-1989,” in Modern Architecture in South Asia:  The Project of Decolonization, published on the occasion of the exhibition “Modern Architecture in South Asia:  The Project of Decolonization” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, eds. Martino Stierli, Sean Anderson, and Anoma Pieris (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, Jan 2021). 

Summer 2020
“Sustained Flight: Kishi Kota’s Atomic Architecture,” in Expansions: 100 Responses to “How Will We Live Together?”, published on the occasion of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2020, eds. Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir (Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, Summer 2020). Publishing date deferred on account of Covid-19.

June 2020
“What is to be given—: Love Supreme and Chittaprosad’s Korean War Period Satire, 1950-53.” in Solidarity Must be Defended, eds. Eszter Szakács and Naeem Mohaiemen (Budapest: Tranzit – Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum – Istanbul: SALT – Buenos Aires, Delhi, Johannesburg, São Paulo: Tricontinental, June 2020). Publishing date deferred on account of Covid-19.

Forthcoming
“One Last Hug: Repair and the nuclear since 3.11.” Symposium paper presented at Representation and Reparation in Global Contemporary Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 27 September, 2019. Work-in-progress for peer review publication.

Forthcoming
“The Protagonist and Folklore of Justice: The Progressive History of TV Santosh.”
Retrospective catalogue of TV Santosh, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Forthcoming
“New Asia/新亜細亜: Internationalism and Images of Friendship in Japanese wartime magazines (1938-45).”
Paper presented in the panel Japanese Imperialism and Narrative Media in the Long 20th Century, Joint East Asian Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 September 2019.

February, 2019
Other than nation.” Art in America

June 2018
Conversation: Sameep Padora with Prajna Desai.” @post, MoMA, New York.

Forthcoming
Jishuku: The legacy of mid-century censorship in contemporary Japanese art.
Paper presented at Cultures of Occupation: Establishing a Transnational Dialogue, University of Nottingham, 12-14 January, 2018

Summer 2017
“Shomei Tomatsu: Nagasaki.” Aperture

February 2017
Given Time, The Gift and its Offerings.” Artforum

February 2017
Body Luggage.” Artforum

January 2017
How Perfect Perfection Can Be.” Artforum

January 2017
Reinvention Through A Rearward Eye: Kerry James Marshall’s Mastry.” riotmaterial.com

December 2016
Gauri Gill.” Aperture

November 2016
Speaking Out: Interview with Navjot Altaf.” Frieze

April 2016
3.11 Still Haunts: Art and photography five years since the tsunami.” Guernica

April 2016
Roppongi Crossing.” Frieze

August 2015
Obituary: Charles Correa.” Artforum

May 2015
T. Venkanna.” Art in America

March 2015
Shinro Ohtake.” Art in America

December 2014
Constructing Worlds.” Aperture

March 2014
Amol Patil.” Frieze

October 2013
Barbed Floss.” Frieze

August 2013
Outside, In.” Aperture Magazine

May 2013
Nityan Unnikrishnan.” Frieze

March 2013
See, Memory.” Aperture

February 2012
Bhimayana.” The Comics Journal

November 2011
Kashmir Pending.” The Comics Journal

August 2011
“Homma Takashi’s New Documentary.” Aperture

August 2010
“Changing the Focus.” Aperture Magazine

April 2010
Rachel Whiteread Drawings: Casting Rhetoric Aside.” Art in America