Joan M. Cummins
Lotus Circle Advisor
Joan Cummins is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she has served since 2007. A specialist in Indian art, she previously worked as assistant curator of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Cummins is the author of Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior (2011) and Indian Painting: From Cave Temples to the Colonial Period (2006), reflecting her expertise in Indian art history.
She earned her doctorate in Art History from Columbia University and has dedicated her career to the study and curation of South Asian art.