Prof. Kavita Singh
Professor of Art

Prof. Kavita Singh © Goethe-Institut / Varun Sharma Photo: Goethe-Institut / Varun Sharma

Kavita Singh is a Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she teaches courses on the history of Indian painting and the history and politics of museums.
 
She has published essays on issues of colonial history, repatriation, secularism and religiosity, fraught national identities, and the memorialisation of difficult histories as they relate to museums in South Asia and beyond, as well as on aspects of Indian painting.