PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; MFA, Goldsmith College, London; BFA, Nottingham University
Gemma Sharpe is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art from South Asia, Cold War histories of art, and museum and exhibition studies.
Her in-progress book, Modernist Agencies: Art and Cold War Politics in Pakistan examines how artists in Pakistan and pre-1971 Bangladesh critically engaged with nationalism and institutions of the state in Asia and internationally during the postcolonial decades.
Her work has been supported by the Asian Cultural Council, Modernist Studies Association, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, among others. Sharpe was awarded a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, (2022-23) and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2019-21). Her scholarship has appeared in Art History and ARTMargins along with numerous magazines and exhibition catalogs internationally.
