Gayatri Sinha is an art critic and curator based in New Delhi, India. Her primary areas of research are around the structures of gender and iconography, media, economics and social history. She founded Critical Collective, a forum for thinking about conceptual frames within art history and practice in contemporary India.[1]
Sinha graduated in English literature and Economics from Calcutta University with a postgraduate qualification in Media Studies Social Psychology and Critical Appreciation, Bombay University.[citation needed]
She has worked as an art critic for The Indian Express (1981–1991), The Telegraph (1991–1994) and The Hindu (1995–2006).
The Devi Foundation, a registered not-for-profit organization, was set up in New Delhi in 2003.[2] The Foundation's objectives are the preservation and enhancement of the arts, and support to underprivileged woman and children. Through a programme of health camps and direct support to school children, the Foundation has attempted to benefit a cluster of villages located outside Lucknow. The Foundation also seeks to support traditional music and various art practices. Its focus has been on the Benaras gayiki with its emphasis on a traditional folk ethos.