Presenting and supporting more than 200 women artists over almost fifty years, Ebrahim and Roshen Alkazi were ardent champions of women in the visual arts as the founders of Art Heritage and in developing a collection. ‘A Rising Tide: Women Artists from the Alkazi Collection’ is a new exhibition by Art Heritage highlighting selected works from The Alkazi Collection of Art, co-presented with The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. Curated by Nancy Adajania, this exhibition brings together the works of thirty-nine pathbreaking artists for the first time. Exhibited Artists: Anita Dube | Anjana Mehra | Anupam Sud | Archana Shastri | Arpana Caur | Arpita Singh | Azadeh Akhlaghi | Devyani Krishna | Elisabeth Frink | Gogi Saroj Pal | Gouri Khosla | Gouri Vemula | Ira Chaudhuri | Ira Roy | Jaya Ganguly | Jyotsna Bhatt | Kanchan Chander | Kavita Jaiswal | Ketaki Sheth | Kishori Kaul | Kristine Michael | Latika Katt | Meera Devidayal | Mona Rai | Munira Alkazi | Nalini Malani | Nasreen Mohammedi | Navjot Altaf | Neha Dey | Nirmala Patwardhan | Pilloo Pochkhanawala | Ranjana Thapalyal | Rekha Rodwittiya | Sabrina | Srila Mokherjee | Sunanda Khajuria | Tina Bopiah | Vanita Gupta | Veena Bhargava | Yayoi Kusama | Zarina

'Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-1931,' a new exhibition from the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, curated by Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy, offers an exploration into the history of civil disobedience and nationalist politics, through images in the K.L. Nursey album. These rare photographs, being exhibited for the first time, capture the heart of the revolutionary mass action in Bombay (today's Mumbai) in the early 1930s, including the contribution of the desh sevikas, emerging from a nationalist women's organization at the time.

The exhibition 'Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-1931,' will be accompanied by the interdisciplinary volume titled 'Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay 1930-1931.' The book, taking from the Alkazi Collection of Photography, is edited by Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy, and co-published with Mapin (2025).

The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts is delighted to announce the participation of Duke University historians Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy at the 2025 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival in North Carolina. Drawing from the Alkazi Collection of Photography's rare album titled Collections of Photographs of Old Congress Party — K.L. Nursey, the session moderated by Professor David Gilmartin, will explore the efficacy of civil disobedience and Gandhian non-violence against the imperial forces, while considering the ways in which the photograph both illuminates and obscures history.