Shruti Parthasarathy is a writer, art historian, arts editor and researcher of South Asian modern and contemporary art, interested in its multiple, contested modernities. She has worked extensively in exhibition curatorial, arts publishing and archival spheres.
She is the editor of a volume on Indian art critic K.B. Goel's writings, K.B. Goel: Critical Writings on Art 1957-1998 (SSAF-Tulika, 2020). Among her writings is the extensive essay on the influential 1960s Indian avant-garde artist collective, Group 1890, titled ‘Group 1890: The Journey of a Moment’ (DAG, 2016), and a forthcoming monograph on the Indian abstract painter, the late Ram Kumar.
She is also a literary translator, working across literature, art and cinema. Her English translation of the Hindi cinema volume by Mihir Pandya, Hindi Cinema via Delhi is forthcoming, and a work-in-progress is a three-volume translation of writings by the late painter-writer, Ram Kumar.