Sumesh Sharma is a Bombay based curator focusing on alternate art histories, socioeconomics, and cultural politics. His work engages with immigrant cultures, vernacular modernism, and Black consciousness. He curated Dak’Art 2016 and presently works on an extensive research project on aesthetics and its new philosophical bearings that emerge from India & Africa. He recently curated Mind’s Cupboards, a retrospective of the artist Lalitha Lajmi at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in 2023. He co-founded the Clark House Initiative in 2010 with Zasha Colah. He has been a resident at the Latvian Contemporary Art Centre (Riga), Manifesta Online Residency (San Art, Vietnam), Cites des Arts (Paris), Art Sonje Center (Seoul), Asia Cultural Center (Gwangju), Gwangju Biennale Curators Course (Korea), Sao Paolo Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art (Santa Barbara), Kadist Art Foundation, ISCP New York, Ekalokam Trust for Photography (Tiruvannamalai), Iaspis Stockholm (Sweden), College House (Colombo) and was the Independent Curators International fellow for Senegal in 2014 where he researched how the funding mechanisms in culture and institutional support of art institutions utilise the power structures put in place by colonial laws. His artistic practice seeks layers through political materiality and art historical & theoretical failures while discussing the visual as conversations between the views of Cheikh Anta Diop and Dr. BR Ambedkar.