Vasundhara Mathur’s work as a writer, researcher, and curator centres transnational histories and practices of placemaking, collective dreaming, archiving, memory and the role of artists and organisers in social movements.
In 2024, as research lead for AHRC funded project Our Heritage Our Stories, Vasundhara curated a public programme at Tate, titled The Archive is a Gathering Place. The programme included workshops, performances, displays, talks and a publication exploring the archive as a place for collaboration, creativity and political practice. Tate Papers no. 36 provides a record of the talks, panel discussions and performances at the symposium and festival.
Vasundhara has worked on socially engaged archival projects with the BR Ambedkar collection at Columbia University, the Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University, among others.
Over the past seven years, she has been researching in the archives of Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama. She is working with Yuri's daughter, Audee Kochiyama to develop an oral history project that aims to think of the archive as a pedagogical, living and multivocal resource.
Vasundhara has an MA/MRes in International and World History from Columbia University and LSE, and an MRes in History from Goldsmiths, University of London. She was Tate’s inaugural International Research Fellow at M+ Museum in Hong Kong (2025).
