Anuradha Vikram is a writer, curator, and educator born in New York and based in Los Angeles. Their novel Use Me At Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline (X Artists’ Books, 2023) uses speculative fiction to address current and future social conditions from a techno-critical point of view. Recent curatorial projects include The Sky Is Always Falling: HIV/AIDS Activists Unleashing Power in Los Angeles Then and Now for the 2025 ONE Institute Circa Queer Histories Festival. They are a consulting curator for the Metabolic Studio and a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Art at UCLA.

In 2024 they co-curated the Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial and the Getty PST Art exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (2024–25) at UCLA Art Sci Center. Recent curatorial projects include Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2022), Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate with Warren Neidich, Renée Petropoulos, and Christina Strassfield at Guild Hall, East Hampton Main Beach, New York (2022) and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica State Beach, California (2023), and eX-aMEN-ing Masculinities with LA Freewaves at Los Angeles State Historic Park in 2022.

Vikram’s book Decolonizing Culture (Sming Sming Books, 2017) helped initiate a global movement to decolonize arts institutions and monuments. They are a contributor to art periodicals including Artforum, Art in America, Artillery, X-TRA, and publications from Paper Monument, Archive Books, Heyday Press, Routledge, Wiley, and Oxford University Press. They hold an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and a BS in Studio Art from NYU.