Latika Gupta
Bio
Latika Gupta is an art historian and curator based in Delhi. She has worked at the National Gallery of Modern Art, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, and has curated exhibitions of South Asian and international contemporary art, and the permanent exhibition for an ethnographic museum in Kargil, Ladakh. She has taught at the Dr. BDL Museum’s postgraduate diploma course and has been co-mentor for the Curatorial Intensive South Asia programme (Khoj & Goethe-Institut/MMB) from 2019-2025. Latika teaches courses on Trans- Himalayan visual and material culture as visiting faculty at Ashoka University, Sonipat since 2021. From 2016-2020, she was Associate Editor at MARG publications. She is a part of the editorial collective of ‘100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object’ and an associate editor of South Asian Studies. She works as Director, Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation in Delhi.
Publications include “Visible Cities”, Looking Out Looking In: Delhi, edited by Rahaab Allana, Aperture magazine, Summer 2021; Museum Futures, (an anthology of essays co-edited with Leonhard Emmerling, Luiza Proenca, Memory Biwa), Turia+Kant 2021; Art and Ecology, (co-edited with Ravi Agarwal) Marg Magazine, Vol. 71, No.3, March 2020; The Draw of the Hills, (editor), Marg Magazine, Vol. 69, No. 4, June 2018; Art: Faked, Stolen, Censored, (co-edited with Naman P. Ahuja) Marg Magazine, Vol. 69, No.3, March 2018; “Documenting Spiti: In conversation with Patrick Sutherland”, Marg Magazine, Vol. 69, No. 4, June 2018; “Reclaiming National Space, Rejuvenating Local Place: The Cham at the Kye Monastery in Spiti”, Journal of Ritual Studies 30 (1) 2016, Edited by Geoffrey Samuel; “Essays on eight contemporary Indian artists” in Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India, Edited by Jodi Throckmorton, University of California Press Berkeley in association with San Jose Museum of Art, May 2015.