Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D, is Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York. Recognized internationally as a pioneering authority in modern and contemporary Asian art, she has won the first prize for outstanding exhibitions from the Association of International Art Critics (AICA) in 2000, 2005 and 2009. She has organized The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 (2009) which was a revisionist survey of American art, and co-organized Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe (2008) which was among the best-attended exhibitions in the Guggenheim Museum’s history. Its catalogue won the 2008 Wittenborn Prize for outstanding scholarship, design and production. Her landmark exhibitions and publications include Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective (1989); Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky (1994); The Art of Mu Xin (2002); YES YOKO ONO (2000); and Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (2005), curated by Takashi Murakami.

From 1998 to 2005, Munroe served as Vice President of Arts & Culture at the Japan Society, New York, and Director of Japan Society Gallery, America's leading institute for promoting Japanese culture. She holds a B.A. from Sophia University, Tokyo, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a Ph.D. in History from New York University, where her research subject was modern East Asian intellectual history. She serves as a trustee on the boards of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; the U.S. - Japan Foundation; The Korea Society; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Susan S. Bean, curates South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, USA, working with a collection that focuses on the modern era, from the colonial period to the present, and includes the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection of contemporary Indian art. Bean has produced a series of exhibitions and publications on 20th century Indian art, including Painting the Modern in India (2010); ReVisions: Indian Artists Engaging Traditions (2009); Gateway Bombay (2007), Epic India: M. F. Husain’s Mahabharata Project (2006),Exposing the Source: Paintings by Nalini Malani (2005); Timeless Visions: Visions of India (2003);and Contemporary Art of India from the Herwitz Collection (1999). Her book Yankee India:American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail, 1784-1860 (2001), builds on the museum’s collection and archive to illuminate the beginnings of American interest in the art and culture of the subcontinent. She also writes on Indian textiles and clay sculpture.

Sharbani Das Gupta first watched Ray Meeker ‘throwing’ clay at the National Institute of Design, India, from where she eventually
graduated. Seeking to learn ceramics, she went to Pondicherry and enrolled as a student. It was a turning point, and she transitioned from design to clay. Currently, she lives in New Mexico and has exhibited in the US, UK and India. Her work revolves around issues of environmental and personal development. She writes on Ceramics occasionally and can be
contacted at www.sharbanidasgupta.com.

Sandhini Poddar is Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She served as the curator for the project, Anish Kapoor: Memory, for Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, which recently toured to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Poddar was the assistant curator for Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe and The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, and a jury member for the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize. She graduated with a Master’s in Visual Arts Administration from New York University, and has additional Master’s degrees in Indian, Islamic, and South East Asian art history and aesthetics from Bombay University. Poddar is currently curating Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, on view at Deutsche Guggenheim from June 26^th to October 10^th, 2010.