Lakeeren Art Gallery

Arshiya Lokhandwala is an art historian, curator and founder of Lakeeren Art Gallery (1995–2003) in Mumbai India. She completed her BA and MA in Sociology in 1986 and 1991 respectively. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust award in 2001 for an MA in Creative Curating at Goldsmiths College, London. She was a participant at the Documenta 11 Education program in Kassel in 2002, under the artistic curator Okwui Enwezor. She is also a curatorial committee member of the Arts Pension Trust [1]. Lokhandwala curated Rites/Rights/Rewrites: Women's Video Art, which traveled to Cornell University, Duke University, and Rutgers University from 2003–06. She is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art department at Cornell University, under Salah Hassan USA, and writes on the globalization of art, feminism, performance art and new media.[citation needed] Having returned to Mumbai, India in 2009 she has reopened Lakeeren Art Gallery in a new South Mumbai location Colaba.