janeitasingh
In my journey with literary criticism based on the belief ‘critic as an artist’, my writing hopes to generate new perspectives of ways of seeing. With my interest in interdisciplinary research, I endeavour to morph inquiry into a webbed storytelling format to reach the general and inquisitive reader. The illustrated monograph, FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist, is my non-fiction book based on a 12-year research project. It explores the loss and recovery of the self in postcolonial, post war and post-modernist times, with an emphasis on posthumanism.The book is held in the collections of Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum, Paul Mellon Center, Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), Stanford University.
The Frick Art Research Library, Yale University, Stanford University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, New York University, UC Berkeley, Tulane University, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum(PEM), Courtauld Institute of Art, Carleton & St Olaf College Libraries, Michigan State University, Connecticut College, Kristine Mann Library in New York, and the Getty Museum, among others. It has been awarded the Oxford (Bookstore) Art Book Prize 2025.
I am the writer of the documentary film, Ruptured Lines, a film on Souza’s art practice. I have also lent her critical voice to the film, Father of Indian Modern Art. Recently, The Society of Art and Cultural Heritage of India invited me to give a presentation on her book at the Palo Alto Art Center, San Francisco. The Carl Jung Institute of SF has recorded a podcast on her book, to be released shortly. I have curated talks on contemporary arts – Raza Dialogues, with Raza Foundation Delhi and Museum of Goa. I delivered presentations on the artist FN Souza at the Serendipity Art Festival, 2017-18. In 2019, I gave a talk on FN Souza at the exhibition, Souza in the 40s, at Sunaparanta Centre of the Arts. I hosted the weekly Live Show, Embodying Light and Shadow at the Embodiment Conference 2021. My critical writing has been published in Art India, Take on Art magazine, Indian Literature, DAG-Iconic, and various anthologies. My talk on Krishen Khanna’s centenary and critical writings on the American artist, Waswo X Waswo, has garnered much appreciation in art circles.
I am a registered researcher at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, The Met Museum and The Frick Art Research Library, New York.
I live in Goa with my mother, husband and son on the banks of the river Zuari, meeting the sea under a multi-hued sky.
” Breaking Boundaries Art criticism that dares to speak and weave new perspectives..”
The book is a feminist reading of Souza’s art with an equal emphasis on its study through a Jungian lens and East-West philosophy. Begun in the first half of the last century, Souza’s radical art has more impact than ever today. Many of Souza’s concerns, about the disregarded feminine principle, lack of free human consciousness, and transpersonal psychology are being addressed. Today when embodiment practice has caught on at the world stage in fields of health, trauma and creativity, Souza’s vision has finally materialized
The Frick Art Research Library, Yale University, Stanford University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, New York University, UC Berkeley, Tulane University, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum(PEM), Courtauld Institute of Art, Carleton & St Olaf College Libraries, Michigan State University, Connecticut College, Kristine Mann Library in New York, and the Getty Museum, among others. It has been awarded the Oxford (Bookstore) Art Book Prize 2025.
I am the writer of the documentary film, Ruptured Lines, a film on Souza’s art practice. I have also lent her critical voice to the film, Father of Indian Modern Art. Recently, The Society of Art and Cultural Heritage of India invited me to give a presentation on her book at the Palo Alto Art Center, San Francisco. The Carl Jung Institute of SF has recorded a podcast on her book, to be released shortly. I have curated talks on contemporary arts – Raza Dialogues, with Raza Foundation Delhi and Museum of Goa. I delivered presentations on the artist FN Souza at the Serendipity Art Festival, 2017-18. In 2019, I gave a talk on FN Souza at the exhibition, Souza in the 40s, at Sunaparanta Centre of the Arts. I hosted the weekly Live Show, Embodying Light and Shadow at the Embodiment Conference 2021. My critical writing has been published in Art India, Take on Art magazine, Indian Literature, DAG-Iconic, and various anthologies. My talk on Krishen Khanna’s centenary and critical writings on the American artist, Waswo X Waswo, has garnered much appreciation in art circles.
I am a registered researcher at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, The Met Museum and The Frick Art Research Library, New York.
I live in Goa with my mother, husband and son on the banks of the river Zuari, meeting the sea under a multi-hued sky.
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