Anita Dube is an art historian and critic turned artist. She works with a conceptual language that valorizes the sculptural fragment as a bearer of personal and social memory, history, mythology, and phenomenological experience. Employing a variety of material drawn from the realms of the industrial (packing detritus, found objects, plastic, steel etc.); craft (thread, beads, fabric); the body (dentures, bone), and the readymade (ceramic eyes); Dube investigates a very human concern with both personal and societal loss and regeneration. Marked by her early engagement with the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association, a self-styled political grouping of artists in the late\ 80’s, she has since attempted to work both with an ‘erotics’ and a ‘politics’ that investigates the resistance of individuals, especially women, against the overarching idea of ‘power’. She has shown widely nationally and internationally since 1997 in solo as well as curated group exhibitions. Major participation includes the 7th Havana Biennial (2000), Yokohama Triennale\ (2001),  3rd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009), Biennale Jogja XI (2011), Kochi Muziris Biennale (2012). Anita has been a founder and active member of KHOJ, an alternative arts organization since 1997, and now serves on its board. She was the first woman curator of the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018. She also occasionally curates and writes on Contemporary Indian Art.