Shreya Sharma

Biography

Shreya Sharma is an oral historian, curator, and researcher working at the intersection of community memory, visual culture, and contemporary art. She holds a BA in History from Delhi University and a Master’s degree in Archaeology and Heritage Management. Her academic background has shaped a curatorial practice grounded in critical historiography and lived experience. She is particularly interested in how oral histories and indigenous knowledge systems can reframe institutional narratives and challenge colonial frameworks.

Since 2019, Shreya has served as the curator and archivist at Devi Art Foundation, where she has co-curated over a dozen public and private exhibitions. Her projects often bring together traditional craft, contemporary art, and social history to examine themes such as gender, displacement, and intergenerational memory. She is currently working on an exhibition titled Synthetic Needs, which reimagines Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs through the lens of artificial intelligence and the posthuman condition. This exhibition explores what it means to be human in an algorithmic age.

Alongside her work in India, Shreya has actively engaged with international institutions and networks. In 2023, she was selected for the British Art Network Curatorial Forum, where she collaborated with a group of international curators to reflect on inclusive futures for British art. She has worked with various organizations such as the Cornwall Museums Partnership, where her input was instrumental in forming the Inclusive Collections Network, supporting small and rurally located museums to approach decolonization work pragmatically. She has also worked with The Space, Birmingham, in collaboration with artist Hew Locke as a consultant. She is currently developing an exhibition with the Migration Museum in the UK, which explores the concept of displacement through the lens of the 1947 Partition.

Shreya Sharma, Curator at Devi Art Foundation in New Delhi, India, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation.