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Videos & Podcasts
Zehra is an art historian interested in exploring and analysing the socio-political contexts of South Asian art history, including its relationship to British Imperial pasts and presents. She speaks regularly at academic conferences as well as at museums, art fairs and literary festivals. Find a selection here.
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Teaching
In 2022, Zehra joined the University of Bristol’s faculty as a Lecturer in the History of Art.
From 2016-2021, Zehra lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her doctorate, and was an Associate Lecturer. Subsequently, she was a visiting lecturer at various academic institutions in the UK and Asia, as well as lecturing for the prestigious MA in “Asian Art Histories” at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
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Qualifications
Zehra was the Steven and Elena Heinz Scholar at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her doctorate and learned to design undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Art History.
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Writing
Zehra is an art historian with a background in art criticism, specialising in South Asian art. She has written for Frieze; ArtAsiaPacific, Art Review Asia, ART India and continues to be a regular contributor to Artforum International, as well as to write art books and catalogues and contribute to academic publications. A selection of her writing can be accessed here.
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Curating
Zehra co-curated the landmark exhibition, The Progressive Revolution: A Modern Art for a New India (2018) at New York’s Asia Society Museum. She is now Curatorial Research Fellow at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, a position funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art.