Oindrilla Maity Surai is an independent curator, and writer. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Culture Studies from Visva -Bharati, Santiniketan, India. She has curated quite a few exhibitions since 2007 that address contemporary moorings; regional struggles; problems of partition, migration, and dislocation; mediatic practices, and the challenges that artists face and cope with in the regional-global continuum. She is a regular contributor to most art magazines that are published in the country and has been at the editorial desk for quite a few. She was selected for the Curatorial Programme at Khoj International Artists' Association, New Delhi in 2010 and was invited by the Gwangju Metropolitan Museum of Art for a research residency on contemporary art in Gwangju in 2011. She won the Art Scribe Award, 2010 and attended the Gwangju Biennale International Curators' Course, 2012.