Visiting Faculty, Department of Visual Arts, Ashoka University
Ph.D. School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityDeepti Mulgund, Ph.D. (School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2019) is an art historian, with a specialization in nineteenth and early-twentieth century South Asia. Based on her doctoral dissertation, a book on art publics in colonial Bombay is underway. Deeptiās work engages with museum studies, institutional histories, art reception, consumption studies, urban studies and public culture, to produce critical social histories of art.Ā
Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, as part of the āArt Histories and Aesthetic Practicesā programme, and was co-hosted by the Freie University, Berlin (2019-20). As a doctoral candidate, Deepti received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Bi-Nationally Supervised Ph.D fellowship (2015-16), and was affiliated to the Humboldt University, Berlin. Through the India Foundation for the Arts Museum fellowship (2013, CSMVS), she had the opportunity to conceptualize curatorial schemas for historical collections of the Museum, in Mumbai. Prior to pursuing her research degree, Deepti worked for the Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum (2009-10), researching institutional history. As an assistant curator at the Devi Art Foundation, Deepti engaged with contemporary art, including on collaborative and process-led exhibitions such as, āWhere in the World,ā (2008-09); she also conceptualized the early education and outreach programme for the Foundation.Ā
In October 2021, she was selected as a participant to the Art Schools of Asia project by the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Deeptiās on-going research follows distinct trajectories: drawing pedagogy in the nineteenth century of industrial capitalism and empire, and picnics, as a modern form of leisure, fusing the consumption of ānatureā and ācultureā; she sees these projects as beingĀ united by her longstanding interest in marking artās dispersal into the social sphere.
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