Heritage with Vidhya

Exploring art and heritage through stories, people, and perspectives.

Singapore-born Vidhya Gouresan Nair has two decades of experience in museum research, art curation, art writing and Tamil-English translation work, within the area of Asian Aesthetics, and Modern and Contemporary Indian Art and Heritage. She holds a Master of Arts in Asian Art Histories, jointly presented by the Open University of the United Kingdom and LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. In addition, she has lectured on Art History, Art Theory and Professional Practice at the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and has tutored Art History at the National University of Singapore, having had guest-lectured at the former Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Singapore.

Vidhya has lectured and curated at international art fairs in Singapore, Dubai, Mumbai and New Delhi, and has curated art/cultural exchange projects between Singapore and India, while working along with the Singapore Art Society and the Sculpture Society (Singapore). From 2000 to 2006, Vidhya had researched for the South Asia Department of the Asian Civilisations Museum (National Heritage Board) and for the Singapore Philatelic Museum (National Heritage Board). She was indeed the first curator of the multimedia-based SGH Museum (situated at the historic Bowyer Block in the Outram Campus). In 2006, 2007 and 2015, she had contributed a monthly article to the Singapore Art Gallery Guide, under her column entitled ‘Aesthetic Awakening’.