Laura Steward is the Phillips Director of SITE Santa Fe, a nonprofit contemporary art space located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It is known for its international biennial exhibitions and its yearround contemporary art exhibitions - Steward serves as the primary curator here.Appointed to the position in April 2005, she came to SITE from MASS MoCA, one of the world's largest centres for contemporary visual and performing arts,where she was founding curator. Steward is the author of many exhibition catalogues and articles,lectures widely, and has served as adjunct faculty of Williams College and Bennington College, USA.

Sharmistha Ray received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College (Williamstown, U.S.A.) and followed it with a dual degree from Pratt Institute - Master of Sciences in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture and Master of Fine Arts in Painting. She has written essays, articles and reviews for both Indian and foreign publications including ArtAsiaPacific, Wynwood Art Magazine,Gallerie and MW Magazine. Ray is currently Director of Bodhi Art, a leading gallery for Indian Contemporary Art, in Mumbai.

Trisha Gupta has a BA in History from the University of Delhi and an M.Phil in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, New York. She was Theatre Editor for Time Out Delhi for a year, and now divides her time between her own research on the politics of heritage conservation in Delhi and freelance writing about books, art, cinema and the city. She is a regular contributor to a variety of publications, including Tehelka, Biblio, Time Out Delhi and the Indian Express. She lives in Delhi.

Shaheen Merali is a curator and writer, currently based in London and Berlin, where, from 2003-8, he was the Head of Exhibitions,Film and New Media at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, curating several exhibitions including The Black Atlantic; Dreams and Trauma, Moving images and the Promised Lands; and Re-Imagining Asia, One Thousand years of Separation. In 2006, he was invited to be the co-curator of the 6th Gwangju Biennale, Korea. Other curated exhibitions include Shilpa Gupta's Blindstars, Starsblind (BodhiBerlin) and Everywhere is War (and rumours of war) for BodhiMumbai, 2008. In February 2009, he curated Indian Popular culture (and beyond): The Untold (the rise of) Schisms, at Alcala 31 in Madrid. Merali has edited several publications, including Far Near Distance, Contemporary Positions for Iranian Artists (2004); Spaces and Shadows, Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia and About Beauty (2005):New York-States of Mind and Re-Imagining Asia (2007).

Tom Finkelpearl is the Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art where he is working on an expansion that will double the size of the museum. The Queens Museum is situated in America's most ethnically diverse county. Finkelpearl spent 12 years at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center where he organized 15 exhibitions in the 1980s, returning in 1999 as Deputy Director and working on the organization's merger with the Museum of Modern Art. Between his P.S.1 stints, he worked for six years (1990-96) as Director of New York City's Percent for Art Program where he organized over 130 public art projects and as Executive Director of Program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a residency program in Maine for advanced visual artists (1996-1999). Based on his public art experience and research, he published a book, Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press,2000). He is working on a new book titled Why not Recoprocity? Art and Social Collaboration.Finkelpearl did his BA from Princeton University (1979) and his MFA from Hunter College (1983).

Sonal Shah writes for Time Out Delhi and is currently the m a g a z i n e ' s Food & Drink Editor. She has also edited and written for the Art section. Shah grew up between Delhi and suburban Washington D.C. and studied Anthropology at Swarthmore College. She enjoys happening upon art in unexpected places, listening to music in the street, talking about ideas and editing. Both her mother and her grandfather chucked it all to paint fulltime.Someday, Shah may just do the same.