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{{Short description|Indian curator and art management consultant}}
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[[File:Pooja Sood (6789164902).jpg|thumb|Pooja Sood, 2012]]
'''Pooja Sood''' is an Indian curator and art management consultant. She is also the founding member and Director of [[KHOJ, International Artists' Association|KHOJ International Artist's Association]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Advisory Group |url=https://ssaf.in/advisory-group/ |website=Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation |accessdate=8 March 2019}}</ref>

==Education==
Pooja is a mathematics graduate and has an MBA in Marketing (1984–86) from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. Sood has an MA in Art History (1990–92) from Punjab University, [[Chandigarh]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/supplement/story/20180409-in-search-of-fine-art-khoj-indian-art-1201223-2018-03-30|title=In search of fine art|author=Chinki Sinha |date=March 30, 2018 |magazine=India Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vervemagazine.in/people/catalyst-of-creativity-pooja-sood|title=Pooja Sood On Her Decades-Long Tryst With The Arts|date=July 28, 2017|website=Verve Magazine}}</ref> She also has a certificate in Cultural Policy from the CEU, Budapest (2007); and in Arts Management from the European Summer Academy of ICCM, Salzburg (2000).<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://khojworkshop.org/khoj-people/|title=PEOPLE AT KHOJ « KHOJ|access-date=2019-03-08|archive-date=2019-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315105425/http://khojworkshop.org/khoj-people/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Career==
Pooja started her career with Delhi-based Eicher Gallery in 1994 where she was the curator and administrator till 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/just-before-monday/report-in-her-khoj-2588147|title=In her Khoj|date=February 25, 2018|website=DNA India}}</ref> During her time with them she curated over 20 exhibitions. In 1997, Sood along with [[Bharti Kher]], [[Subodh Gupta]], Manisha Parekh, [[Anita Dube]] and Prithpal S. Ladi founded Khoj International Artists’ Association.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/questing-the-alternative/article18436711.ece|title=Questing the alternative|first=Georgina|last=Maddox|newspaper=The Hindu |date=May 13, 2017|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/EeiEFyLNUtv3NxACY8SpqL/The-art-insiders.html|title=The art insiders|first=Chanpreet Khurana, Dhamini|last=Ratnam|date=February 26, 2016|website=livemint.com}}</ref> From 1998 - 2007, she coordinated the KHOJ International artist's workshops in Delhi (1998-2001), Bangalore (2002 -2003), Mumbai (2005), Kolkata (2006) and Srinagar (2007). From 2000 to 2010, she was the Regional Coordinator of the [[Triangle Arts Trust]], UK where she researched and facilitated the establishment of independent not for profit visual art organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal called SANA (South Asian Network for the Arts).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.punebiennale.in/advisor.php|title=Advisor|website=www.punebiennale.in|access-date=2019-03-08|archive-date=2021-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511154806/https://www.punebiennale.in/advisor.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was the Curator of the Apeejay Media Gallery from 2002 to 2007. From October 2007- December 2008, she was also the Director of Artists Pension Trust, Mumbai.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://elcleonardo.com/|title=Shaun Leonardo|website=Shaun Leonardo}}</ref> She was appointed as the artistic director and curator of 48 °C Public.Art.Ecology, a public art project, commissioned by the Goethe Institut in December 2008.<ref name="auto1"/>

Since 2009, she has been serving as the Director of ARThinkSouthAsia (ATSA), an arts management programme for young managers in the cultural sphere.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arthinksouthasia.org/about-us/atsa-team/|title=ATSA Team | ARThinkSouthAsia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title=Report on Policy Consultation on promoting cultural and creative industries in Goa | url=https://en.unesco.org/creativity/sites/creativity/files/report_policy_consultation_creative_industries_goa.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331192800/https://en.unesco.org/creativity/sites/creativity/files/report_policy_consultation_creative_industries_goa.pdf | archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref> From November 2015 to February 2019; Sood also served as the Director General of [[Jawahar Kala Kendra]], an arts centre in Jaipur established by the Rajasthan Government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/the-informer/moving-on/articleshow/68056313.cms|title=Pooja Sood steps down as Director General from Jawahar Kala Kendra|website=Mumbai Mirror}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://ssaf.in/advisory-group/|title=Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation | Advisory Group}}</ref> Sood has been on several international juries, like the IAPA award of the Institute of Public Art, Shanghai (2014), the Asia Pacific Breweries Signature prize hosted by the Singapore Art Museum (2014–15) and the Korean Art prize, Seoul (2013).<ref name="auto1"/>

Sood is currently working on curating the Pune Biennale which is to be held in November–December 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/wheres-the-space/article26458072.ece|title=Where's the space?|first=Elizabeth|last=Kuruvilla|newspaper=The Hindu |date=March 7, 2019|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/khoj-to-curate-pune-biennale/articleshow/64799006.cms|title=Khoj to curate Pune Biennale|website=Pune Mirror|access-date=2019-03-08|archive-date=2019-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331192749/https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/khoj-to-curate-pune-biennale/articleshow/64799006.cms|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Achievements==
Sood was the recipient of a Junior Fellowship from the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry, Government of India and developed a Directory of Funding for the Arts in 1998.<ref name="auto1"/> She is also a Chevening scholar on the Clore Leadership Programme, UK (2009-2011).<ref name="auto"/>

==Publications==
She is the editor of The Khoj Book Of Contemporary Indian Art: 1997- 2007, published by HarperCollins, 2010.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Pooja Sood |title=The Khoj Book Of Contemporary Indian Art: 1997-2007 |date=2010 |publisher=Harpercollins |isbn=978-8172236878 |url=https://www.amazon.in/Khoj-Book-Contemporary-Indian-Art/dp/B0072I0THC |accessdate=8 March 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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