Padma Maitland

Dr. Padma Dorje Maitland is the newly-appointed Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He was previously an assistant professor of architectural history, theory, and criticism California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, prior to which he served in curatorial positions at Stanford’s Cantor Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He recently curated the exhibition After Hope: Videos of Resistance and edited a forthcoming volume Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times. This summer, he was a research fellow with the American Institue for Sri Lanka Studies, completing research for a manuscript project on the Hindi travel accounts of Rahul Sankrityayan, Anand Kausalyayan, and Yatri Nagarjun.