Avni Sethi
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Avni Sethi

Adjunct Associate Professor
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About Avni Sethi

Avni Sethi holds a Master’s in Dance: Participation, Communities and Activism from London School of Contemporary Dance, UAL, London, completed in 2026. She studied Interdisciplinary Design at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology completed in 2012.She brings experience in museum design, narrative and participatory practice, social design, critical and contemporary art practice, performance and scenography.. Before joining CEPT University, she worked as the artistic director at the Conflictorium, Museum of Conflict.With 15 years of professional experience, she has worked across areas including curation, performance and social design. She received the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice 2020 – 2022, by the Vera List Centre at The New School, New York. She serves on the board of several art and developmental organisations in India and internationally.Avni Sethi can be reached at avni.sethi[at]cept.ac.in
Avni Sethi is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer. She was the Founder and Artistic Director of the Conflictorium, Museum of Conflict (2012 – 2023), co-curator of Mehnat Manzil, Museum of Work. Her recent international residencies include the Artists’ Collective-in-Residence at SpreePark Art Space, Berlin (2025) along with Phool Foundry, the Artist-in-Residence programme at The Saison Foundation, Tokyo (2025), and The Yellow Dot Residency at Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta (2024). Her writing has been published widely across books and journals, including the essay Obedient Infrastructure, Disobedient Inhabitants in Elephant in the Room (Stroom den Haag, 2023); Articulating a Museum from Absence: Emptiness in the Conflictorium beyond Pandemic Times (co-authored with Friederike Landau-Donnelly) in Museum International Journal (2021); Museum as Evidence, Justice as Culture in Museum Futures (Turia + Kant, 2021); The Other Place, The Other Time in Das Museum der Zukunft (transcript Verlag, 2020); and On Resistance in Magazine 12 (National Institute of Design Press, 2019).