Priyani Roy Choudhury is an independent research scholar based in New Delhi, specializing in Mughal art and architecture. She has been a Visiting Faculty at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU. Between 2013-16, she was a doctoral fellow at the Museum of Islamic Arts (The Museum für Islamische Kunst) in Berlin. Her ongoing research project on Fatehpur Sikri is a close engagement with the visual language of the imperial city as it unfolds through its architecture, spatial arrangement, and ornamental design. She has also actively engaged with painting traditions from the 14th-19th centuries, studying the connections between the aesthetic practices of South Asia and that of Central Asia, Iran, Western China, the Indian Ocean littoral as well as Europe. While at the Museum of Islamic Arts in Berlin, she curated (with Julia Gonnella) the exhibition Mystic Travellers: Sufis, Ascetics and Holy Men in 2016.
