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discussions and ideas
We hold events that bring thought provoking, idea generating topics in the field of art.
art and artists
We support South Asian artists by finding residencies and promoting their work into the mainstream
production
We produce events and festivals that showcase contemporary art and artists from a South Asian view point in all fields of art - literature, dance, music and visual arts.


Priyanka Mathew
Priyanka Mathew is the Principal Partner at Sunderlande, an art advisory that focuses on South Asian Art. After graduating from the...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Dipti Mathur
Dipti Mathur is a collector of modern and contemporary South Asian art. Her ongoing interests lie in working with institutions in the US...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Rekha Rodwittiya
Rekha Rodwittiya is an artist of international acclaim. To the artist, her works and her life are closely interwoven; and her paintings...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap is an Indian Film director, writer, producer, editor and actor. He several accolades including a National Film Award and...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Deepti Naval
Deepti Naval is a film actor, director, writer, painter and photographer. An American with an Indian origin, Naval since her debut in the...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Varun Grover
Varun Grover after having a stint in the corporate world, Grover turned to being a full-time writer, and since then has contributed in...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Vikramaditya Motwane
Vikramaditya Motwane is an Indian writer, director and producer. His directorial debut was for the film Udaan, 2010. It was selected to...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Naheed Hasnat Senzai
Naheed Hasnat Senzai is the author of award winning Shooting Kabul, chosen by the Asian Pacific Librarians Association as their Young...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Mitali Perkins
Mitali Perkins, was born in Kolkata, India. Her family lived in various countries, Ghana, Cameroon, London, New York City, and Mexico...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, which won Commonwealth Book Prize for the...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Raghu Karnad
Raghu Karnad is an Indian author and journalist, and a recipient of a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University. He is the author...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Siddharth Dube
Siddharth Dube is a non-fiction writer and specialist commentator on poverty, public health, and development. Recent book Indefinite...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Tanuja Mehrotra Wakefield
Tanuja Mehrotra Wakefield is a poet, writer and editor. Of her recent works a poem titled, Photograph: Anastasia Beach, 1975, was...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Athena Kashyap
Athena Kashyap is a poet who after having lived in the USA for nearly two decades moved to India. Her works, Crossing Black Waters, was...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Minal Hajratwala
Minal Hajratwala, plays multiple roles, writer, performer, poet, and queer activist of Indian descent. Her work titled, Leaving India: My...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Shanthi Sekaran
Shanthi Sekaran is an educator and writer based in the Bay Area. Her novel, Lucky Boy, was named an IndieNext Great Read, and an NPR Best...
Sep 28, 20191 min read


Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra is an American-Indian writer. His books Red Earth and Pouring Rain, 1995, received outstanding critical acclaim and...
Sep 28, 20191 min read

A Pioneering Festival for an Immersive Experience!
For the first time ever, Art Forum SF and the Montalvo Arts Center, in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Institute of South Asian...
Sep 25, 20193 min read


The Text, The Textile and A Dialogue
Yasmin Jahan Nupur’s works titled Threads: Weaving Humanity, can be read as a continuation of her attempts of constantly gauging the...
Aug 8, 20192 min read


Critical Inquiry meets Grace & Purpose
Art Forum SF brings together two contemporary legends of language, communication and the arts together. We are proud and honored to...
Mar 27, 20192 min read
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