About BCCL

Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL) is one of India's largest media conglomerates, with a legacy dating back to 1838 and a portfolio that includes The Times of India, The Economic Times, Mumbai Mirror, Navbharat Times, Maharashtra Times, and Vijay Karnataka. Across print, digital, branded content, out-of-home, and experiential platforms, BCCL combines trusted journalism, audience insight, and innovation to shape conversations at scale.

About Art of India

Indian art is having its moment. A recent generation of collectors is arriving, the world is paying closer attention, and the market is growing fast. No single institution has yet built the platform that convenes it, and The Times of India is the one institution with the reach and the credibility to claim that ground.

Art of India is where it begins. It is a profitable curated art business inside The Times of India Group, five editions old, with hundreds of collectors who already own work bought through it. We are now turning it into a year-round business, with a Head in place and a permanent gallery opening in The Times of India building in Mumbai.

The opportunity

We are looking for someone to own gallery and artist relations. Every work that hangs at Art of India comes through a relationship with an artist, an estate or a gallery. For five editions those relationships have been rebuilt around one exhibition each year, and you make them permanent.

You also take on the hardest question in the plan. Galleries have shown with Art of India for free, and the year-round business asks some of them to pay. You make that worth it by offering something new rather than charging for what they have always had.

What you will do

- Build the artist pipeline. Identify, shortlist and onboard artists against the curatorial brief,



across masters, contemporary, emerging and folk practice, including artists who sell from the studio and have no gallery, and be their main point of contact.
- Own the terms. Negotiate pricing guidance, consignment windows, loans and artist agreements, and coordinate commissioning, production and framing before handing the work to the gallery team.
- Bring galleries in as paying partners. Turn the partner galleries into year-round partners, and shape with the Head the formats where galleries pay to show through us, such as paid slots at the 1838 gallery.
- Champion the next generation. Build the relationships with art schools and young artists that feed a talent hunt, and open the categories others ignore: collectible design, craft, textiles and photography.
- Keep the record straight. Maintain the artist database, inventory, catalog content, price lists, payments and returns.
- Work as one of five founding hires under the Head of Art of India, who holds the curatorial standard. Collaborate with Senior Collector Relations and Sales, Collector Relations and Sales, Art Gallery and Event Programming, and Art Education and Research. Bring the work and support the curation of the larger shows.

What you bring

- You are the person artists trust and gallerists take seriously.
- 4 to 8 years in a gallery, auction house, art foundation, art fair or curatorial practice.



You have managed artists, negotiated consignments and worked with galleries as partners. Profile matters more than years.
- A real network. You know contemporary and traditional Indian artists, and the galleries that represent them, from the inside.
- A negotiator who keeps the relationship. You can settle price, terms and a consignment window firmly, and still be welcome in the studio next month.
- Art-literate and organised. A degree in fine arts or art history, and the discipline to run a database without a work going missing. Fluent in English and Hindi.
- Background may include a gallery's artist liaison or registrar desk, an auction house's consignment team, an art fair's exhibitor relations, and a foundation or residency. No single path is required.

Education A graduate degree in any discipline is required, masters is preferred. Equivalent relevant experience may also be considered.

Why this matters now The business is moving from three exhibition weeks to fifty-two selling weeks, and that only works if the supply of work and the goodwill of galleries grow with it. If you have spent your career between artists and the market and always believed both could be treated better, this is the seat where you get to prove it.

Equal chance

BCCL is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and consider applicants without discrimination based on gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, caste, ethnicity, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Candidates who need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process may inform the recruiter.

📌 Gallery and Artist Relations (Mumbai)
🏢 Bennett Coleman u0026 Co. Ltd. (The Times of India)
📍 Mumbai