Amrita Jhaveri, Co-Founder of Jhaveri Contemporary, in conversation with Manjari Sihare-Sutin, Vice President and Head of Sale, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at Sotheby’s.
Event moderated by Al An deSouza, Professor of Photography in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.
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- Day: Thu, March 21, 2024
- Time: 9 am PST | Calculate your local time here.
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- This event will be live streamed on SAAI’s FB page - SAAIatUCBerkeley.
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SPEAKER BIO: Amrita Jhaveri has been working in the field of Modern and Contemporary Indian art since 1993. Having established Christie’s presence in India in the mid-1990s, she moved to London in 2000 and began to build her private collection of art from which she has loaned to museums worldwide. She has worked as an independent advisor, creating and managing private and corporate art collections; ambitious artist’s projects and large-scale commissions. In 2010, she established Jhaveri Contemporary, a gallery of Modern and Contemporary art, in Mumbai. Her research interests have resulted in exhibitions such as Thinking Tantra and South Asian Modernists, 1953- 63, and she is the author of 101: A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists.
Manjari Sihare-Sutin joined the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Department at Sotheby’s in 2015. Throughout her tenure, Sihare-Sutin has consistently innovated, focusing her curatorial and sales expertise to expand the global reach of modern and contemporary South Asian art.
Sihare-Sutin’s sales are comprehensive explorations of art in the region, bringing both known and fresh artists to market with exceptional results. From March 2022 to March 2023, the department achieved a total of 40 world auction records. In addition to major biannual sales, Sihare-Sutin spearheaded the department’s first online auction in 2017, A Lyrical Line: Paintings & Drawings by Francis Newton Souza, and two selling exhibitions, The Great Within: Photographs of India And The British Raj In The 19th Century in 2018 and Crafting Geometry: Abstract Art from South and West Asia in 2020.
Sihare-Sutin holds two graduate degrees, a master’s degree in art history from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi and a master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University, New York.
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The South Asia Art Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley promotes research-based conversations and collaborations around the arts of South Asia + its diasporas from the ancient period to the now. To read more about the Initiative and help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
