Premjish Acharo, whose curatorial practice spans a diverse range of exhibitions, including “Imperial Silhouettes: Shadows of Sovereignty” (Abu Dhabi, 2024-25), “Luminous Reveries” (Delhi, 2024), “Inscapes: In Search of a Place” (New Delhi, 2023), “Things are vanishing before us” (New Delhi, 2023), and the Student’s Biennale for the Kochi Biennale Edition (2022-2023)., “All Canaries Bear Watching”, part of the Indo-UK research collaboration GRID Heritage Project, JNU, (New Delhi, 2022), “A time for Farewells” (Haverford College, Pennsylvania and Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2019).
He also played a pivotal role as Editorial Supervisor and Programme Head for “Lokame Tharavadu” (2021), a major contemporary art survey exhibition by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Premjish received the Pro Helvetia Art Writers’ Award 2021, leading to a residency at Atelier Mondial, Basel, and the publication of “Lure of Collaboration: Dissecting Consensus.” He was also honored with the Prameya Art Foundation’s Art Scribes Award, which included a residency at Château de La Napoule, France. His writings have been featured in notable publications such as “What Does Art/Artist Think? Making a Case for Artistic Practice as Research”, in Journal for Artistic Research, (2022), “Portrait of an Artist as an Individual”, in Altaf: Early Drawings and “Iconic: Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art Edition 2 Volume 1” by Delhi Art Gallery (both 2023), and “Traversing the ‘Blind Spot’: Art Pedagogy and the Student Biennale” in Unframed (2023). Beyond his curatorial and writing work, Premjish conceptualized and initiated the Kaee Kolkata City Lab, Kolkata, and the Odisha Craft Odyssey, Bhubaneswar. He has presented his recent research papers at the Historical Materialism conference 2025, SOAS London and 60 Years of the Tricontinental Conference: Context, Impact, Legacy, and Future by the University of Havana and University of Nottingham.
He previously served as a visiting faculty member at Shiv Nadar University, teaching art history and theory for seven years.