Art historian (East Asian art), curator, poet and writer, Elizabeth Rogers has lived, studied and worked on creative endeavours across the globe. In 2008, she completed a UNESCO-funded research project on Newari art in Nepal, with consultation at the Patan Museum and the Kathmandu National Museum. For the last few years, she has resided in New Delhi and written on Buddhist art and contemporary Indian and Pakistani art and photography for museums, galleries and publications in India and abroad.

In the fall of 2008, she initiated research at the Rockefeller Foundation archives at the estate in Potanico Hills, New York. The project focuses on the Indian modern artists who received Rockefeller fellowships in the 1960’s and 1970s. They traveled and stayed in New York where their respective works were collected by the Museum of Modern Art. She plans to write a book and curate an exhibition in New York and New Delhi. The still-living artists shall be interviewed and their reminiscences and journals (as well as photographs and related materials) shall be collected.

Graduate of Harvard University (B.A.), Institut d’Etudes Politiques (C.E.P.)and Institut des Civilisations et Langues Orientales(matrise, Paris), Beijing and Fudan Universities (P.R.C.), and Yale University (M.A. amd M.F.A.), she has curated exhibitions of Asian art in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the Musee Guimet (Paris), the Musees Royaux (Brussels), the Groningen Museum (Netherlands), the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the Sackler Museums (Harvard and Beijing), the Japan Society and the Asia Society, the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the Indian Museum (Kolkata), and the Gotoh and Suntory Museums (Japan).

She was the Assistant Director of the Museum at Japan Society (New York), the Director of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art (New York), and a consultant to the Museum at Tibet House (New Delhi).

Awards and Fellowships:
ZKM, Global Art and the Museum Fellowship, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe, Germany (2009); UNESCO Research grant, Patan Museum and Kathmandu National Museum, Nepal (2007-8); Asian Cultural Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Research grant (2002); as well as Whitter Brynner Foundation Poetry grant; Poets and Wrtiters grants (4); Yale University Fellowship; Rotary Foundation International Fellowship.

Selected recent publications include: A Wonderful World (2009); Sourav Bhattacharya: Everyman Contmplates Time (2009); Om Bhur Bhuvah Vinay Sharma, Om Bhur Bhuvah Svah (2008); Abhinav Choubey, Syncopated Strokes, Utrecht (2008); Jamil Naqsh pays Homage to Pablo Picasso (2008); Alka Raghuvanshi, Moonbeams and Sundrops, Alliance Francaise de Delhi (2008); Lala Ramanand, Woman 2008; Sanjeev Verma, Little Does Matter, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; Chottu Lal & Yugal Kishore Sharma, Journeys through Metaphysical Spirit, Academy for Fine Arts & Literature, Delhi (2008); Melliflous Metaphors, Kuala Lumpur (2007); Shuchi Khanna, with ICCR, Tagore Centre, Berlin, and Nehru Centre London, and Alliance Franciase, Delhi (2007); and Regards Croises, Le Corbusier Foundation in France and Alliance Francaise in Chandigarh and Delhi.