About
Shubha Bhatt is a PhD Student studying modern and contemporary art in South Asia, with a focus on artistic engagements with archives and cultures of documentation within the late twentieth-century women's movement. Her research interests include transmedial practices, histories of independent art spaces, transnational artistic networks, and ecology.
Prior to attending the University of Michigan, Shubha worked as a Research Assistant at Asia Art Archive in India, where she engaged with artist archives and primarily organised the personal archive of artist, administrator, and educator B. C. Sanyal (1901–2003), exploring connections across institutional and pedagogical networks in India and Pakistan throughout the twentieth century. She holds an M. A. in History of Art from Indian Institute of Heritage (formerly National Museum Institute), New Delhi, and a B. A. in History and Philosophy from Miranda House, University of Delhi.