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Ram Rahman is a contemporary Indian photographer and curator based in Delhi. He was born in 1955 to Indrani Rahman, a classical Indian dancer, and Habib Rahman, a noted Indian architect. Ram Rahman completed his degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also received a degree in Graphic Design from the Yale University School of Art in 1979. He is one of the founding members of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT).

Ram Rahman received the prestigious Forbes India Art Award in the year 2014 for best “exhibition of Indian art curated on an international stage.”

His publications include Sunil Janah: Photographs 1940–1960 (2014), The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, co-edited with Jessica Moss (2013), and he has contributed the essay “Defending Husain in the Public Sphere: The SAHMAT Experience” to Barefoot across the Nation, MF Husain and the Idea of India (editor Sumathi Ramaswami, 2010).

Rahman’s photographs are in the collections of The Devi Art Foundation, The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, in Delhi, The Museum of Modern Art and the MET in New York, The Pompidou Centre in Paris, and The Tate Modern in London, besides private collections.

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