Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmentalist, writer, and curator. He works and lives in New Delhi and is an engineer by training. Agarwal is also the founder-director of the Indian environmental NGO Toxics Link, and was awarded the UN Special Recognition Award for Chemical Safety (2008) and the Ashoka Fellowship (1997). As an artist and curator, he works with questions of ecology and society. Ravi’s work has been shown widely, including at dOCUMENTA XI, the Biennials of Havana (2019) Yinchuan (2018), Kochi (2016),  Sharjah (2013) etc. He co-curated the Yamuna-Elbe, Indo-German twin city public art and ecology twin city project in 2011. His work is in several private and public collections, and he has authored and edited many books and journals.