Tushara Bindu Gude

Associate Curator

Tushara Bindu Gude is an independent curator and scholar with over twenty years of experience as a museum curator in the field of South and Southeast Asia, first at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and more recently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Gude received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her areas of expertise include Hindu and Buddhist art, South Asian courtly paintings, arts of the colonial period, and the modern and contemporary art of South and Southeast Asia. She was the co-curator of the exhibition Las Huellas de Buda (Traces of the Buddha) at Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City (2018), the first pan-Asian Buddhist exhibition to be held in Mexico City. In addition to major exhibitions at LACMA, such as The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka (2018-19) and India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow (2010-11), she has curated a wide range of shows including Buddhism, Trade, and Diplomacy: Relationships Between Tibetan and Chinese Art (2017); Monsoon: Indian Paintings of the Rainy Season (2017); Landscapes of Devotion: Visualizing Sacred Sites in India (2015); and Pinaree Sanpitak: Hanging by a Thread (2013).

Tushara Bindu Gude

Tushara Bindu Gude is an independent curator and scholar with over twenty years of experience as a museum curator in the field of South and Southeast Asia, first at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and more recently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

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