Latika Gupta (private)
Latika Gupta trained in visual culture studies from JNU in Delhi, and has received fellowships from the India Foundation for the Arts and the Nehru Trust for research on Trans-Himalayan art and rituals and was a research fellow at SOAS, London (2017) on a Charles Wallace Trust India Fellowship. She has worked as a curator at the NGMA, Delhi, KHOJ International Artists’ Association and curated exhibitions of South Asian and international contemporary art.
Her research interests focus on the material culture and art history of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, with a focus on Indo-Tibetan 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.
As associate editor at Marg Publications, she edited the quarterly journal from 2016-2020. She is a part of the editorial collective of the multiformat research and publication project ‘100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object’, teaches courses on the visual and material cultures of the Himalayas as visiting faculty at Ashoka University and works as Director, Projects at the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation in Delhi.