Vidya Dehejia is a retired academic and the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art atColumbia University. She has published 24 books and numerous academic papers on the art of South Asia, and has curated many exhibitions on the same theme.
Vidya Dehejia was educated atSt. Xavier's College, Mumbai, where she gained a first in ancient Indian culture in 1961. She gained a first in archaeology and anthropology atNewnham College, Cambridge in 1963. She completed her PhD on early Buddhist caves of Western India in 1968, also at Cambridge.[1]
In 1968, she took up a post-doctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Sydney. In 1970 she became a lecturer at theUniversity of Hong Kong. In 1973 she moved to a lectureship at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture. In 1982 she became an associate professor atColumbia University. In 1994, she moved to theSmithsonian Institution, becoming the chief curator and deputy director of itsFreer Gallery of Art andArthur M. Sackler Gallery. In 2002 she became Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art atColumbia University, and in 2003 she became the director of that university's South Asian Institute.[2]
Namakkal Caves. Madras: Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology, 1968.
Early Buddhist Rock Temples. London:Thames & Hudson, London, 1972.
Living and Dying: An Enquiry into the Enigma of Life after Death. New Delhi: Vikas Publishers, 1979.
Things of Beauty. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India, 1979. [A book on Indian art for children, to mark the International Year of the Child.]
Looking Again at Indian Art. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India, 1978.
“Impossible Picturesqueness.” Edward Lear's Indian Watercolors. 1873–1875. New York:Columbia University Press, 1988.
(Editor)Royal Patrons and Great Temple Art. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988.
Slaves of the Lord: The Path of the Tamil Saints. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1988.
Antal and her Path of Love: Poems of a Woman Saint from South India. Albany:SUNY Press, 1990.
Art of the Imperial Cholas. (The Polsky lectures for 1987). New York:Columbia University Press, 1990.
(Editor)The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions, Bombay: Marg Publications, 1994.
(Editor)Unseen Presence: The Buddha and Sanchi, Bombay: Marg Publications, 1996.
Discourse in Early Buddhist Art: Visual Narratives of India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1997.
(Editor)Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997.
Indian Art. Art and Ideas. London: Phaidon, 1997.
Devi, The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art, Washington D.C., Ahmedabad, Cologne:Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Mapin Publishing, Prestel Verlag, 1999.
India through the Lens: Photography 1840–1911, Washington D.C., Ahmedabad, Cologne:Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Mapin Publishing, Prestel Verlag, 2000.
Chola. Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. London:Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. Catalogue essay “Beauty and the Body of God,” and all Catalogue entries.
Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Mapin Publications, India, 2008.
The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries between Sacred and Profane in India’s Art,Columbia University Press, New York & Mapin Publications, India, 2009.
2006 Chola. Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. With catalogue. London:Royal Academy of Arts. Jointly curated with John Eskanazi.
2008 Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj. The Wallach Gallery,Columbia University, New York. With catalogue of the same title published by Mapin Publications, India.
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