Our Offices & Partners Abroad

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Artist

Blessy Augustine | Art Writers’ Award 2020

Switzerland | Critical Writing

Critical Writing

Blessy Augustine is the winner for Art Writers’ Award 2019-20. An art writer based in Delhi, Augustine completed an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York and a Masters in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the recipient of the 2017 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. She has written for publications such as Art in America, The Hindu Business Line, Mint, Reader’s Digest India, Blouin Artinfo and Time Out Delhi. Her column, Afterimage, which looked at socio-political events through the prism of art, was published in Business Line Ink from July 2017 to July 2018.

Read more about Blessy’s residency here.

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