Aparajita Jain
based in New Delhi, India.
Aparajita Jain is a leading entrepreneur and philanthropist based in New Delhi. She is the founder of terrain.art , India’s first blockchain-powered art platform, and has been co-director of Nature Morte Gallery since 2012. Jain was a founding member of Harvard University’s South Asia Arts Council, established to connect South Asia’s curators, museum administrators, artists, and art educators with Harvard faculty. She was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by FICCI FLO in 2019 for her contribution to the field of art and is currently on the advisory board of ICCR. She was also recently inducted onto the Board of Trustees of the International Sculpture Center. In 2010, Jain founded The Saat Saath Arts Foundation (SSA), envisioning it as a not-for-profit initiative to foster creative dialogue between Indian artists and the international art world. SSA launched India’s first international Sculpture Park in Jaipur in 2017 in collaboration with the Government of Rajasthan.
From Are NFTs the First Truly Global Art Movement?, March 2022