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M. Phil. Jawaharlal Nehru University, DelhiLatika Gupta has an MPhil in Visual Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and has received fellowships from the India Foundation for the Arts, Nehru Trust, and the Charles Wallace India Trust for research on Trans-Himalayan rituals and material culture. She was a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2017 on a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship.
She has worked as a curator at the National Gallery of Modern Art, at KHOJ International Artists鈥� Association and curated exhibitions of South Asian and international contemporary art. She has been a co-mentor for the Curatorial Intensive South Asia programme (Khoj & Goethe-Institut/ MMB) since 2019. From 2016-2020, she was Associate Editor at MARG Publications, in charge of commissioning and editing the quarterly journal. She is a part of the editorial collective of 鈥�100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object鈥� and an associate editor of South Asian Studies. She currently works as Director at the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation.
Her research is on the material culture and art history of Western Tibet, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, with a focus on Buddhist monastic art and rituals; as well as museum studies, particularly the shifting registers of value and meaning-making of ritual and everyday objects. She curated the permanent exhibition for a trade-routes artifacts museum in Kargil, Ladakh, in 2015.
Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2015;
鈥淩eclaiming National Space, Rejuvenating Local Place: The Cham at the Kye Monastery in Spiti鈥�, in the Journal of Ritual Studies Vol. 30 No.1 2016;
In conversation with Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam鈥�, MARG Vol. 66, No. 3 (March 2015);
Photographing Spiti- In conversation with Patrick Sutherland鈥�, MARG Vol 69, No.4 (June 2018);
Draw of the Hills鈥� (Editor) MARG Vol 69 No 4, 2018
Art: Faked, Stolen, Censored鈥� (Co-Editor) MARG Vol. 69, No. 3 , 2018;
Art & Ecology鈥� (Co-Editor) Marg Vol. 71, No. 3, 2020;
Visible Cities鈥�, Aperture Magazine, Summer 2021; and 鈥楳useum Futures鈥� (Co-Editor) Turia+Kant, Vienna, 2021.
