Sonya Rhie Quintanilla Author & Editor

Sonya Rhie Quintanilla is the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, having been curator of Asian Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. She also taught Indian and Tibetan art history at UC Irvine, UCLA, and UC San Diego.Sonya began her wok at the San Diego Museum of Art in 2004. During her tenure there, Sonya curated the groundbreaking exhibition Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose, which involved a partnership with the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and was also shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2008. Her exhibition Into India: South Asian Paintings from The San Diego Museum of Art was on view at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Art in Madrid through May 20, 2012.Quintanilla completed her PhD at Harvard University where her dissertation focused on early Indian sculpture.