Zehra Jumabhoy
Dr. Zehra Jumabhoy a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK. She is an art historian, curator and writer specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art, including its connections with British pasts and presents. Zehra was the Steven and Elena Heinz Scholar at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her doctorate and, subsequently, lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (2016-2020). She has been a visiting lecturer at various academic institutions in the UK, India, Pakistan and Singapore. In 2018, she co-curated the landmark exhibition, The Progressive Revolution: A Modern Art for a New India, at New York’s Asia Society Museum. Amongst other ventures, she is Curatorial Research Fellow at Glynn Vivian museum in Swansea, a position funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which will culminate in the major exhibition, Imperial Subjects: (Post)Colonial Conversations between India & Wales, in Autumn 2024.