Nikita Gill

Nikita Gill is an Afro-Caribbean artist and curator at Manchester Art Gallery. She received her MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester in 2019. Her previous work includes support of the exhibition and development of Excavating the Reno, Portraits of Recovery with David Hoyle and Mark Prest, Bodies of Colour, and Joy Forever at the Whitworth Art Gallery. She has developed and supported performances for Block Universe, Jade Montserrat and Glasgow International. Nikita is interested in decolonial practices within performance and new media, centred on care within the context of art gallery collections.

Nikita was working on Future Collect, supporting Jade Montserrat’s commission by iniva. Nikita is a recipient of the 2021 UK New Artists Future Producers Grant and is joint creative producer for PROFORMA Desire Lines project (2021 – 22). Nikita is a member of the Black Curators Collective.