Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
1133 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7509
1133 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7509
As Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, Natasha Kimmet manages the museum’s collection of approximately 3,500 Asian and Islamic art objects. Her research interests include the art and architecture of South Asia, Tibet, and the Himalayas, with an emphasis on Buddhist temple sites and sculpture and Himalayan vernacular architecture. Previously, she was Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna and Austrian Academy Sciences, Curatorial Fellow at the Rubin Museum of Art, and an Editor at Shambhala Publications. She curated the exhibition Monumental Lhasa: Fortress, Palace, Temple (Rubin) and has taught Buddhist art in the Kabul Museum Project Curatorial Training Program for curators at the National Museum of Afghanistan. Kimmet has contributed to publications on Tibetan and Himalayan art and is co-editing Exploring the Contributions of the Shahi Kingdoms to Inner and South Asia (forthcoming, 2026). She has received grants from the Austrian Science Fund and Austrian Academy of Sciences for collaborative digital humanities projects to develop the Shahi Kingdoms Database and integrated digital publication. She received her PhD in the history of art at the University of Vienna, MA in the history of art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and BA in the history of art and visual culture at Bates College.
