Johny ML

Johny ML is a writer, translator, art historian, art critic, art curator, editor of art
magazines, poet and a prolific blogger. He has three postgraduate degrees in Creative
Curating, Art History and Criticism, and English Language and Literature.

His writings related to arts, culture and politics have been published in several print
magazines like Creative Mind, Arts Illustrated, newspapers and weeklies in English
and in Malayalam. He also founded and edited many popular online art journals. He
has been an editor of the Art and Deal magazine also has guest edited Art Etc. He
contributes to Art India Magazine, Creative Minds, Art Journal and many other
exclusive art magazines. Currently he writes in Art Tehelka and other online
magazines.

He is one of the pioneering curators in India who worked towards bringing respect to
curatorial practice. In the 2009 he undertook a journey across India to research on
how art and art history are taught in small town art colleges. He has curated high
profile group shows all over the country like, Cartist - Art festival at Jaipur 2016, It’s
Big – show at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, of team Po10tial, Bengaluru, 2016; Line
Of Control- LoC show 49th Annual show of Birla Academy, Kolkata 2016., Pune
Biennale Edition II, Pune, 2015, Thekkan Kaattu, 47th Annual Exhibition of Birla
Academy, Kolkata, 2013 and the 49th and 50 th year Annual exhibitions at Birla
academy of Art and Culture Kolkata, among many others.

His blog, www.johnyml.blogspot.com is a platform for his continuous response to

various issues he addresses within the art world and a variety of other realms.

Johny ML lives and works in New Delhi.