Karin Zitzewitz

Karin Zitzewitz is a specialist in the modern and contemporary art of South Asia. She is the author of Infrastructure and Form: The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008 (2022), The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India (2014), and The Perfect Frame: Presenting Indian Art: Stories and Photographs from the Kekoo Gandhy Collection (2003). She curated exhibitions by Pakistani artist Naiza Khan (2013) and Indian artist Mithu Sen (2014) for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where she also directed the Artist Residency in Critical Race Studies (2017-2022). Her research has been supported by the European Research Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, the American Institute for Indian Studies, and the Fulbright program. Zitzewitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park.