南亚现代及当代印度艺术

Nishad Avari is Specialist, Head of Department for South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art at Christie’s New York. Mr. Avari joined the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s as an Associate Specialist in 2013, with more than eight years of auction experience in New York and Mumbai. In addition to his previous role as Associate Vice President and Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art at Saffronart, Mr. Avari also served as Editor, handling cataloguing, research and content for the auction house. Prior to joining the auction world, Mr. Avari worked with the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, during the seminal international exhibition, Picasso: Metamorphoses 1900–1972. Since graduating from Macalester College, Minnesota with a dual degree in Political Science and International Studies, Mr. Avari has contributed articles and essays to exhibition catalogues, scholarly journals and news publications. In 2017, Mr. Avari relocated to New York head Christie’s auctions of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art there.

Raagini Pareek is Junior Specialist, Head of Online Sales for South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art department in New York. After graduating from New York University with a BA in psychology and minors in art history and economics, she joined the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) in Mumbai as an intern working with their modern and contemporary Indian art collection. During her time at the JNAF, Raagini worked on two exhibitions, the modern “S.H. Raza: Zamin” and the contemporary “Woman Is As Woman Does”. Following this, she went on to hold a curatorial internship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Department of Asian Art, where she researched ancient Buddhist Art and assisted with the 2023 exhibition “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE-400BCE”. Now at Christie’s, Raagini has returned to South Asian modern and contemporary art, serving as Junior Specialist and Head of Online Sales, with responsibilities spanning scholarly research and cataloguing, alongside the management of the department’s online sales.