Nita Ambani is India’s Richest Woman

Nita Ambani is India’s Richest Woman

Nita Ambani is India’s wealthiest woman, with a $20 billion family fortune and a 27-story home in Mumbai, but she hasn’t been a power player in the art world, until now. Over the past six months, her Reliance Foundation—named after her husband Mukesh Ambani’s textile and petroleum empire, Reliance Industries—has emerged as a go-to donor for major U.S. museums seeking to mount shows with ties to her homeland. Last fall, her foundation sponsored a show of traditional Hindu paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. She’s also the biggest funder of the new Met Breuer’s debut show of modernist drawings by Nasreen Mohamedi, the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in the U.S.