India Today Art Awards 2017

The India Today Art Awards will seek to encourage and showcase the best of India Contemporary Artists and embrace all aspects of the burgeoning India art market.

Award Categories:

1. lifetime achievement awards

2. public art nominees

1. bihar museum
2. public installations in mumbai by RPG-Harsh Goenka,
3. India and the World: A History in Nine Stories, joint venture between Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum, the National Museum in Delhi, the British Museum and the central government

3. new media artist:

4. emerging curator:

1. annapurna garimella,
2. vaishnavi ramanathan,
3. nancy adajania

5. solo exhibition

1. JITISH KALLAT
2. SEHER SHAH
3. CLARE ARNI

6. collector of the year

1. KIRAN NADAR
2. VIR KOTAK
3. DARA MEHTA
4. AJAY AND SWATI PIRAMAL

7. RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION

1. NS HARSHA
2. NALINI MALINI
3. SAKTI BURMAN

8. PERFORMANCE ARTIST

1. NIKHIL CHOPRA
2. INDER SALIM
3. PRINCESS PEA

9. BEST ARTISTIC COLLABORATION

1. LANDSCAPE AS EVIDENCE: ARTIST AS WITNESS
2. RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE AT ONE SHANTHI ROAD

10. ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. NILIMA SHEIKH
2. ZARINA HASHMI
3. ASTHA BUTAIL
4. LAKSHMAN RAO KOTTURU