Girish Shahane is an independent writer and curator. He has degrees in English literature from Bombay University and Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was editor and later consulting editor of Art India magazine. He has been a columnist for Time Out, DNA, Yahoo India, Scroll.in and Mint Lounge. He has been Artistic Director of previous editions of Art Chennai and the India Art Fair. Recent exhibitions curated by him include Conjunction of the Spheres (Delhi, 2023), Magic Markers (Delhi 2023), The Rusi House Anthology (Mumbai 2023) and A Bold Step Sideways (Delhi 2024).