Azaan Karan
II · The Person

It began at fifteen.

A summer inside the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, and everything since.

The courtyard of Bikaner House with the Indian Art Through the Ages banner at the entrance.
Bikaner House, New Delhi · October 2025

It began at fifteen, in the galleries of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art: a summer spent not on holiday but inside installation prep, storytelling sessions, and the slow realisation that Indian art holds two millennia of stories most of India has never been told. Everything since has been an attempt to help tell them.

Four terms at KNMA followed, from Pop South Asia to research for the Venice Biennale and the Barbican. A booth at the India Art Fair, explaining complex installations to thousands of visitors a day. Fifty and more recorded conversations with the artists, gallerists, and collectors shaping the Indian art world. A first exhibition spanning twenty centuries. Educated at Sanskriti School and The British School, New Delhi; reading Art History and Management at the University of St Andrews from 2026.

The focus: modern, pre-modern, and contemporary Indian art, with a working fluency in the ancient, the sculptural, and the miniature. The conviction: that art is not content to be seen but a story to be felt.

Azaan Karan at Indian Art Through the Ages, Bikaner House, New Delhi.
The Record, Dated
2023KNMA internship: installation prep and storytelling, and a booth at the India Art Fair.
2024Research terms at KNMA: the Venice Biennale and the Barbican.
2024Art with Az launches: the first conversations are recorded.
2025India Art Fair: presenting the M. Pravat installation.
2025Indian Art Through the Ages: curatorial debut at Bikaner House, New Delhi, in October.
2026University of St Andrews: Art History and Management.
Cover of the Indian Art Through the Ages exhibition catalogue.

The fullest record of the work so far is the catalogue for Indian Art Through the Ages: seventy works, from temple sandstone to contemporary canvas, each researched and annotated for the exhibition at Bikaner House.

Browse the exhibition and the full list of works

The Practice

Sourcing, curation, and counsel across the arc of Indian art.

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Azaan works with collectors, institutions, and companies: from a first acquisition to an exhibition of seventy works, the approach is the same: rigour in research, discretion in dealing, and stories worth telling at the end of it.

01 Curation Exhibitions conceived, researched, and hung: from a single wall to seventy works across twenty centuries.
02 Advisory & Acquisition A first work or a considered collection, sourced with rigour and negotiated with discretion.
03 Talks & Collaborations Lectures, walkthroughs, and partnerships that bring Indian art to new rooms.

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