Ananya Sikand

PhD Candidate, Art History

Office Hours
By appointment

Education

Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies, Dept. of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, UW, 2022
MA, Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa, SOAS, University of London, 2017
BA, Art History and Studio Art, Clark University, 2014

Biography

I research modern and contemporary art history, with a focus on South Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts. My dissertation project reframes histories of conceptual and performance art of South Asia and its diaspora. Currently, I am the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Bombay/Mumbai Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. I have previously worked at art and cultural institutions around the world including the Seattle Asian Art Museum, USA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; the Siena Arts Institute, Italy; and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum), India.