Affiliate Professor • Interpretive Specialist
School of Art and Art History; Denver Art Museum

Institutional Affiliation聽

Affiliate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Denver

Interpretive Specialist, Asian Art, Denver Art Museum

Education

PhD, History of Art, The Ohio State University

Regional and Thematic Interests

聽Tibetan and Himalayan studies, contemporary art, Museum studies, South Asian studies, Buddhist art

Profile

Sarah Magnatta received her PhD in Art History from The Ohio State University with a specialty in Himalayan and South Asian art. In addition to serving as the Interpretive Specialist of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, she is a consultant for the Thangde Gatsal Tibetan Buddhist Art Digital Collection at the University of Denver and a board member of the Asian Art Association.

Selected Publication

2019聽聽聽Exhibition catalog for Tenzing Rigdol exhibition聽(forthcoming)

2018聽聽聽鈥淧lace and Identity in Contemporary Tibetan Art,鈥 in 鈥淟ooking Askance at Himalayan Art鈥 (special issue of the South Asian Studies Journal series)聽Journal of the British Association for South Asian Studies听(蹿辞谤迟丑肠辞尘颈苍驳).

2017聽聽聽鈥淭he Transmission of Buddhist Imagery throughout Asia,鈥 in聽Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion,聽edited by Tianlong Jiao. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2017.

2017 聽 鈥淟ost Horizon: (Dis)location and Identity in Contemporary Tibetan Art,鈥澛贰蝉迟丑别蝉颈蝉:听

An E-mag of Arts and Ideas聽(January 2017):聽

2015 聽聽鈥淥nline Presence: The Internet and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama,鈥澛Journal of the聽

Southwest Conference on Asian Studies聽(vol. 8, September 2015): 23-40.
2008 聽聽鈥淔orbidden Image: The 1996 Chinese Ban on Images of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama,鈥澛Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, vol. 8 no. 1, (Winter 2008): 44-55.