Archishman Sarker

Archishman Sarker (born 1992) is an Indian art historian based in New Delhi. He is a scholar of Indian art and architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where his research and teaching focus on Indian iconography, manuscripts, murals and sculpture, trans-Himalayan Buddhist material culture, Buddhist and Hindu temple architecture, historiography of art institutions and the reception and connoisseurship of South Asian art in the West.
==Early Life==
He was born in Jalpaiguri and studied at Holy Child School, Jalpaiguri https://holychildjalpaiguri.in http://hcs.sccg.in . He received his B.A. Hons. in English from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 2014 and completed his M.A. and M.Phil. in Art History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2016 and 2019.
==Career==
===As a researcher===
He completed his M.Phil. https://www.jnu.ac.in/sites/default/files/upload/2020-11/RegisteredMPhilStudents2016-17.pdf degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2019, where he is presently engaged as a doctoral researcher in Art History. An art historian https://jnu.academia.edu/ArchishmanSarker specialising in pre-modern South Asian art and architecture, his works range from art criticism, European Modernism and continental theories of art and aesthetics to the entire gamut of South Asian art from the ancient to the contemporary period. He was awarded https://www.jnu.ac.in/sites/default/files/annual_reports/48AnnualReport_Eng_0.pdf https://www.jnu.ac.in/sites/default/files/annual_reports/50AnnualReport_Eng.pdf the Indian Council of Historical Research travel-award and the Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum award http://www.nehrutrustvam.org/awards/nehru-trust-awards in 2018, and the Neil Kreitman Studentship https://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/neil-kreitman-studentship.html at SOAS, University of London in 2021-22.
He is presently a graduate tutor in Art History at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also serves as a reviewer of books and exhibitions on South Asia with The Burlington Magazine and on the editorial board of the Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design https://chitrolekha.com .
===As an author===
His articles and reviews https://orcid.org/
0000-0003-1773-8258 have appeared https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/article/view/19249 https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202010?tab=book https://index.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202110 https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/article/view/21001 https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/article/view/21004 http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/article/view/1372 https://chitrolekha.com/v4n203/ https://chitrolekha.com/v2n304/ https://chitrolekha.com/v5n102/ https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2018/paper/40669 https://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=browse&subAction=subjects&publisherID=179&journalID=27420&pageb=1&userQueryID=&sort=&local_page=1&sorType=&sorCol= https://archive.org/details/30Reflectionson in journals and edited volumes of art history, Indology and religious studies including Religions of South Asia https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA , The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design https://chitrolekha.com https://web.s.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=22314822&AN=136453882&h=xfF3cKp%2b0K9RhHfhXev938u2Q4QNVbxAPqd4cFxJu0P8g6qmaMcwJFUVfQU3iOg6kZ9chXjoRv%2bEPq30VVhEEw%3d%3d&crl=f&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d22314822%26AN%3d136453882 https://web.s.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=22314822&AN=146307376&h=GZmwKYuk6Kl4wLutMTGhIcPA8aZ2V4NDVip7yQTdeyCdRnvb2Ka21GgJOQdkXbVHsUWUyjjrtqDe79LnGYnisw%3d%3d&crl=c&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d22314822%26AN%3d146307376 , Summerhill: Journal of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/about , Kalākalpa Journal https://ignca.gov.in/kalakalp-journal/ of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts https://ignca.gov.in and The Burlington Magazine.
Category:1992 births
Category:Indian art historians
Category:People from Jalpaiguri district 
Category:Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni