Since its inception in 1986, the Vadehra Art Gallery (VAG) has promoted contemporary Indian art through exhibitions, retrospectives, publications and educational programmes. Over the last 20 years, the Gallery has become the locus through which both modern and contemporary artists have reached the public. VAG’s position as an artistic interlocutor with the public is especially vital in contemporary India because of the lack of vibrant art museum culture.

Starting in the 1990s, VAG paved the way for an active collaboration between private and public art sectors. In the mid-1990s, the gallery organized retrospectives with the government-run National Gallery of Modern Art of senior artists Ram Kumar, Raghu Rai, Devyani Krishna, A Ramachandran and SH Raza. In recent years, works from our collection and exhibitions of Atul Dodiya, Arpita Singh, Ravinder Reddy and A Ramachandran have been loaned to Kunstmuseum, Bern; the Chicago Cultural Centre; the Women’s Studies Research Centre, Brandies University; Jardin d’Acclimatation; Singapore Art Museum; and, Mori Art Museum, Japan, among others.