Vrinda Agrawal is a PhD candidate in the history of art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She currently holds the Charles Lang Freer Fellowship at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C. Her publications and research examine a spectrum of subjects relating to art, patronage, and collecting, with a focus on early modern Pahari painting.
In the past she has been awarded the Tagore National Scholar for Cultural Research, a fellowship at the Asia Society Museum, New York, and others, for her curatorial work and research. Vrinda assisted eminent author and art historian B. N. Goswamy on the publication Oxford Readings in Indian Art (2018), supported by a fellowship from the Raza Foundation, New Delhi. She has published in edited volumes and journals, including Ars Orientalis (Fall 2024), Artibus Asiae (Vol, 77, no. 2), as well as catalogues of museums and private galleries.