Director & Managing Trustee, CIViC
Jyotindra Jain is the former Director of Crafts Museum; Professor and Dean at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Member Secretary of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, all New Delhi, and currently the Director and Managing Trustee of CIViC: Centre for Indian Visual Culture, New Delhi. He was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, a Homi Bhabha Fellow, a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and a Rudolf-Arnheim Visiting Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has extensively published and curated exhibitions on Indian vernacular arts as well as popular visual culture. Prof. Jain is also recipient of the 1998 Prince Claus Award for his contribution to Indian arts and culture.
