Sona Datta

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I am a curator, writer and broadcaster. I was Head of the South Asia collections at the Peabody Essex Museum and before that worked at the British Museum.


I bring contemporary cultural production into critical view. I consult, curate, write and occasionally make telly too.


I am a Clore Leadership fellow and a founder of Art South Asia Project.


Where I am now

Clore Leadership Fellow 2019

I thought my next step was to become a museum director but after the Clore Leadership programme I realised for me leadership is a frame of mind and not a job title. 


Creative leadership across UK cultural institutions.


Supported by The Art Fund. 

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Art South Asia Project

I am a founding board member of ASAP. Art South Asia Project supports initiatives to deepen engagement with modern and contemporary visual arts from across South Asia and its diaspora. We give grants and assist networks across the nations of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and here in the UK.

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EXHIBITIONS

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Voices of Bengal

British Museum 2006

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Garden & Cosmos

British Museum 2011

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Intersections

Peabody Essex Museum 2016

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She Persists

58th Venice Biennale 2019

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Hunger Burns

Idea Store, Watney Market 2024

WRITING

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The Art of Jamini Roy

2010

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Art on the line

2016

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Modern Indian Painting

2019

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Painting Freedom

2021

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Hanging Fire

Coming soon

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Seeing India

BROADCAST

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Treasures of the Indus

BBC 4, 2015

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Michelangelo

2018

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Britains Lost Masterpieces

2018

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Three Million

2024

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Podcast Coming Soon!

Places to find me

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