Nikhil Purohit is an artist and arts administrator with interests in art education, pedagogy, art writing, translation, and archival documentation. He is the founding director of Faandee, an initiative dedicated to documenting and managing the arts.
Nikhil was associated with the Mohile Parikh Center for Visual Arts for twelve years, working to connect diverse audiences in India and abroad. He contributed to seminal projects such as V-IDEO and Geographies of Consumption: Land, Water and Food (2015), which featured 12 contemporary artists. From 2017 to 2020, he served as Executive Editor of The Indian Contemporary Art Journal, a Mumbai-based quarterly magazine.
Committed to advancing art education, Nikhil has developed innovative learning methods in art history, aesthetics, and visual studies at institutions including Amity University Maharashtra, Sir J. J. School of Art, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Sophia, and SNDT Women’s University. His recent curatorial project, da(r)shak: Ten Years of Printmaking & Viewership, co-curated with Lina Vincent at Bihar Museum, celebrates a decade of print barter sustained by the International Print Exchange Programme India, with a focus on building strong viewership.