Bio

Brishti Modak (2023) studies the intersections between public sculpture, reception, and decolonization in twentieth-century India. Her research more broadly also looks into art institutional histories, materiality, and feminist art practice.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Presidency University (Kolkata) and a Masters’ in Art History from Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi). In 2021, she earned her M.Phil. degree from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2019. Since then, she has worked at Critical Collective and Delhi Art Gallery.