Gieve Patel is a well-known painter and writer. His paintings are represented in important private and public collections in India and in other countries.

He has written three books of verse and three plays. His plays have been performed in India, and a collection Mister Behram and Other Plays was published by Seagull Books, Calcutta, recently. He is an occasional writer on aspects of contemporary Indian art. He has worked as a medical practitioner in rural and urban India.

Peter Felch, born in 1953 in the Austrian city of Bregenz, holds a PhD in East European history, sociology and peace studies and has finished education in cultural management. After working as a journalist, historian, export manager, cartoonist, election observer and peace builder, he co-organized international art seminars and exhibitions and founded NGOs ARTilek Eurasia and ARTilek Austria in Central Asia and Austria. At present, he lives in Vienna, closely observes the art scene of Central Europe while conceiving and coordinating art and photography exhibitions and other cultural exchange and information projects mainly in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Africa.

Geeta Kapur is a Delhi-based critic and curator. Her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), and When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (Delhi, 2000), to be followed by Ends and Means: critical inscriptions in contemporary art (Delhi, forthcoming, 2010).Her texts have been published in anthologies world-wide. Her curatorial work includes the co-curated Bombay/Mumbai for Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis at the Tate Modern (2001) and subTerrain: artworks in the cityfold at the House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003). She has served as member of the International Jury for the 51^st Venice Biennale (2005), the 9th Dakar Biennale (2006), Sharjah Biennale 8 (2007).She is member of the Asian Art Council, Guggenheim Museum, New York. A founder editor of Journal of Arts & Ideas, she is currently advisory editor to Third Text and Marg. She has held fellowships and delivered talks and seminars in museums, universities and research institutes in India and across the world.

Ally Reeves is an artist and freelance writer from the US living and working in Mumbai through a Fulbright grant. Reeves’s favourite works are often multi-mediatic and involve audience interaction. Besides frequenting Mumbai’s galleries, Reeves researches images of Mumbai’s hawkers and the temporary structures they build. Her website is: www.allyreeves.com

Murtaza Vali is a Brooklyn- and Sharjah based critic and art historian. He is a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific, and was co-editor of its 2007 and 2008 Almanac issue, an encyclopedic year-end review of contemporary art across Asia. He is also a regular contributor to Bidoun, his criticism has appeared in ArtReview and ART India and he has penned catalogue essays on various artists, most recently Reena Saini Kallat and Emily Jacir. Also a freelance curator, his upcoming exhibition, Accented, will be presented at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, in early 2010, as part of their Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Program.