・* About
At the De Appel Archive. Nichi Baratto, 2023.
Meghana Karnik is a curator, researcher, and writer based in New York City. Her practice explores paradoxes between art and social change, spirituality and economy, lived experience and institutional process. She is currently Curator & Exhibitions Director at Flux Factory. Recent curatorial projects include Shared Grounds (2025) with Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and Hope is a discipline (2023–).
Previously, she was Manager, Grants & Artist Initiatives at Art Matters Foundation (New York), where she helped design Artist2Artist, a regranting program that empowers artists; Associate Curator for FRONT International 2022 (Cleveland), where she researched Great Lakes regional artists and supported international commissions in the research phase; and Associate Director of EFA Project Space (New York), where she produced guest-curated exhibitions at the intersection of art and social justice and facilitated the SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers. She has also worked with Art21, The Drawing Center, Harlan Levey Projects, SPACES, Columbia University, and Cleveland Clinic Arts & Medicine Institute.
She serves on the advisory board of Critical Practices, Inc. and was a curatorial adviser for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023.
An alumna of the de Appel Curatorial Programme 2023 (Amsterdam) and recipient of curatorial residencies and fellowships with LMCC (New York), ISCP (New York), The Luminary (St. Louis), and FSAS (Dublin), she holds an M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University, a B.A. in Political Science and Art History from Case Western Reserve University, and completed a BFA Exhibition & Thesis in Drawing through cross-registration with Cleveland Institute of Art.
Full C.V. is available on request.