Sahar Zaman is currently working as an independent arts journalist, TV presenter and art curator.

She was a founding member of CNN IBN (CNN India - one of the top national English News channels) and worked there as a senior news anchor and arts correspondent. With about a decade of work experience in the television news industry as an arts journalist, she has extensively covered art in terms of the art market, art insurance issues, art trends, art restoration, and also special issues like the fake art market. She is the only arts journalist in India to have done a sting operation (which includes the use of a spy camera) on the fake art market in India, where she was offered a fake MF Husain at the price of Rs.1 crore.

Ms Zaman regularly writes for magazines (Art&Deal, Tehelka), online websites (artconcerns.com) and newsletters such as her essay titled the 'The evolution of art journalism in India' for the India Art Summit newsletter in Aug 2009.

She was invited to Pakistan to screen her shows on Indian art in Pakistani universities and art centres. She was also interviewed by their national news channel Dawn News and TV1. In Sri Lanka, she was invited for a special Indo-Sinhalese art camp during which she was interviewed by their national networks like Young Asia TV, Daily Times and Sunday Mirror. She has written extensively about her impressions on the Sri Lankan the contemporary art scene  since the LTTE War.

In 2010 she traveled to Australia following reports in the media about the alleged racist attacks on Indian students in that country and has written extensively on Indian art periodicals about her experiences there in a spirit of reconciliation.  

As a news anchor, having been in the thick of breaking news like the General Elections of India 2009, the military offensive in Sri Lanka, Pakistan's war on terror, Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change, the alleged racist attacks in Australia, etc., Ms Zaman has an in-depth understanding of world issues to be able to connect them with art.

At present, she does an art show for Bloomberg UTV called Art Wise, writes art columns for Tehelka, Art & Deal. She curates art shows on news worthy issues.  

WORK EXPEREINCE

• Worked with CNN IBN, as senior news anchor and arts correspondent (Aug 2005 - Apr 2010)
• Worked with DD News as anchor-reporter for an arts and culture show (2005)
• Worked in Headlines Today as Assistant Producer-Reporter for Arts (2004)
• A short freelancing stint at DD India and DD Sports as anchor and script-writer.
• Worked at Asian News International (ANI) as reporter, anchor and producer for various cultural shows and news bulletins beamed to Washington (Channel 56) and London (Sony London) (2002 -2003)
• Scripted and presented programs for All India Radio's General Overseas Service. She was a regular reporter for 'The Art Scene in India' covering art events in Delhi (2001)