India Art Festival

India Art Festival (IAF), a contemporary art fair founded in 2011, is the largest Indian Art Fair Network, hosting art fairs in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai. IAF is India’s flagship Art Fair brand, providing a platform for dialogue and collaborations between art galleries, art dealers, art buyers, artists, interior designers, architects, and art connoisseurs who come together every year. The art fair offers opportunities to emerging, independent artists as well as mid-level and major art galleries. It serves as a talent hunt in Indian art, where emerging artists with potential get discovered and gain recognition alongside established artists, thereby integrating them into the gallery system.
IAF also features Fusion shows with Live Music and painting demos, curated ‘Conversations – Art Talks,’ a two-day educative seminar consisting of panel discussions. The speakers invited to IAF Conversations include artists, gallerists, museum directors, critics, historians, institution-builders, cultural organizers, editors, and publishers.
India Art Festival is the only contemporary art fair in India that hosts four annual editions in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad apart from and Mumbai Art Fair, specifically designed to cater to the needs of independent artists who seek to exhibit their artworks throughout the year in major metro cities. IAF established itself as a successfully tested model of an art fair that focuses on both art galleries and independent artists.
The India Art Festival group’s ‘in-house’ art publication, ‘Indian Contemporary Art Journal,’ has been published since 2007. It serves to include unrepresented and marginalized radical visual voices from every corner of the country in the mainstream Indian art marketplace. IAF Artists’ Pavilion acts as a talent hunt contest, discovering hidden gems in visual arts from rural and urban parts of India. This initiative offers numerous art choices to Indian art buyers. Acknowledged for its simple and unbiased presentation of visual art, IAF has been instrumental in changing the way audiences view, buy, and sell art.
Every year, IAF hosts over 100 artists and 75 art galleries from across India and the Asian sub-continent, showcasing stimulating original artworks, prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography, ceramics, lithographs, installations, and more, all under one roof at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi, Nehru Centre in Mumbai, and Palace Grounds in Bengaluru.