Jyotindra Jain, formerly Director of the National Crafts Museum, was Professor of Arts & Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and head of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. A Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Exhibitions curated by him include Raja Deen Dayal: The Studio Archives (New Delhi, 2010-11); Other Masters of India (Paris, 2010); and Indian Popular Culture: The Conquest of the World as Picture, shown in India, Germany, France, Finland, Spain and Japan between 2003 and 2011. He received the Prince Claus Award in 1998.
