I graduated from McGill University with honours in Art History and South Asian religion. In my undergraduate studies I focused on questions that emerge from the unwritten histories of marginalized people, and furthermore the negotiation of inclusive historical paradigms. My essay in a graduate seminar, supervised by Professor Andrea Pinkney in South Asian Religions, proposed that images of Bharat Mata (a relatively contemporary South Asian goddess; synonymous to ‘Mother India) spearheaded a discursive notion of modernity in India.
I have always found interest in examining the ways in which to approach the study of history as paradigm, which I am looking forward to theoretically discovering at Columbia and London School of Economics. My research interests are not instantiated by one particular moment, but rather, negotiate a complex set of temporal relations. I intend to use knowledge gained during this program to consult cultural institutions in their representation of history.
After my undergraduate degree in Montreal I moved to New York to pursue a career in the contemporary art world. I completed an internship at Lyles & King gallery in the Lower East Side, and have been since working at a commercial, contemporary art gallery called Magenta Plains. Despite the engagement I feel in this role, I still have questions that go beyond the scope of the contemporary art scene, I would like to further understand the historicity of such praxis.
