Apurva Kulkarni is an independent academician, artist , art historian and a curator. A post-graduate in art history from Baroda (M.S.U) and a educator for thirty years.
He has taught art history, design, cultural studies, art and film appreciation in institutes as various as the Goa College of Art, the Goa College of Architecture, at the BBA in MES College and the MBA in the Goa University, besides having taught at the Kala Academy’s College of Music and Theatre and at various galleries in Goa.
He was the founder member of the seminal art group in Goa in the mid-eighties – Synchronicity. Besides introducing and pioneering curated art exhibitions in the state, he was an art critic during the early nineties: his essays were regularly published in The Navhind Times and the Gomantak Times. He conceived and hosted Lila in 2004, a weekly open studio which hosted interdisciplinary events that included talks, screenings and art demonstrations.
During the last three decades, he pioneered performance and installation art in Goa, held a solo show on drawings and participated in group shows exhibiting installations, assemblages and drawings in and out of Goa and in the United Kingdom and Germany.
In the past four years he curated the film club, Imagine at Gallery Gitanjali, screening documentary films exclusively on the arts. He conducted Studiolo, a series of lectures on sacred Christian art at the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa. He curated film screenings for The Bigger Picture at Reis Magos Fort and lectured on art and artists, as well as for Face The Music, a film club devoted to documentaries on music in Sangolda.
