Vidya Shivadas is a curator and art critic based in New Delhi, India. After her Bachelors in Sociology from Delhi University and a Masters in Art Criticism from Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vidya worked as an art reporter in a national daily The Indian Express between 2000 and 2002. She joined Delhi-based gallery, Vadehra Art Gallery, in 2002 and worked there as a curator for seven years. Vidya has also been actively involved in the setting up and running of the not-for-profit Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, launched in 2007 to support artists and educational activities in the visual arts. One of her areas of academic interest is the relationship between institutions and art practice. Her essay on the National Gallery of Modern Art was published in Towards a New Art History: Studies in Indian Art in 2003. In 2006, she worked as a researcher on the Getty funded study Museology and the Colony, a nation-wide study of museums in India conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of California, Los Angeles, under the guidance of Dr Kavita Singh and Dr Saloni Mathur. In 2007 she received a fellowship from the Goethe-Institut and the education department of Documenta 12 to participate in Documenta 12’s education programme.

Her research project focuses on the development of art criticism in India from the post-independence period to the present day.