Roobina Karode serves as the Director and Chief Curator of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, a role she has held since the museum’s inception in 2010. As a curator, educator, and art critic, she leads the museum’s mission to showcase and promote contemporary and modern Indian art on a global scale.

With over 16 years of teaching experience at esteemed institutions such as the School of Arts & Aesthetics at JNU, the National Museum Institute, the College of Art, and Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, Karode has also made significant contributions as a curator. Her career is marked by over 50 major exhibitions, including retrospectives of under-represented inter-generational Indian artists like Nasreen Mohamedi, Himmat Shah, Jeram Patel, Vivan Sundaram, and Rameshwar Broota.

Karode’s expertise extends to international collaborations, with exhibitions at renowned venues such as the Reina Sofia Museum in Spain, the MET Breuer in New York, and the Musée Guimet in Paris. In 2019, she curated the Indian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, recognised among the top five must-see pavilions.

At KNMA, Karode has championed women artists with retrospectives on figures like Nalini Malani and Arpita Singh, while curating exhibitions that explore themes of time, memory, ecology, and modernist practices in post-Independence art. She has also ventured into avant-garde and underexplored cultural narratives, including a recent collaboration on South Asian popular culture with the Sharjah Art Foundation.

Karode holds postgraduate specialisations in Art History and Education, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship (2000) and a Ford Teaching Fellowship (2005–07), which provide a strong academic foundation for her curatorial and leadership roles.

Guiding KNMA’s dynamic exhibitions and programming, Karode’s forward-looking vision emphasises research, innovation, and new knowledge forms, solidifying KNMA’s place on the global art stage.