Atreyee Gupta

Assistant Professor
History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley

Atreyee Gupta’s area of specialization is global modernisms and contemporary art, with a special emphasis on South and Southeast Asia and its diaspora. Her research and teaching interests cluster around visual and intellectual histories of twentieth-century art; the intersections between the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement, and art after 1945; new media and experimental cinema; and the question of the global more broadly.

Gupta is presently completing a monograph on abstraction in interwar and postwar painting, sculpture, photography, and experimental film in South Asia. Her coedited books include The Postwar Reader (with Okwui Enwezor and Ulrich Wilmes) and Global Modernism/s: Infrastructures of Contiguities, ca. 1905–1965 (with Hannah Baader and Patrick Flores). The former emerges from the international conference, Postwar – Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945– 1965, co-convened at Haus der Kunst, Munich with Enwezor and Wilmes. The latter emerges from international conference co-convened at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Culture) in Berlin with Baader and Flores. Gupta’s essays have appeared in edited volumes, exhibition catalogs, and journals such as Art Journal, Yishu, and Third Text. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, New York; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Goethe Institut and Haus der Kunst, Munich; and, more recently, the Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices at Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, an initiative of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut. Before joining Berkeley in 2017, Atreyee Gupta was the Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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