Dipti Mathur

Collector of Contemporary South Asian Art

Dipti Mathur is a biochemist and collector of contemporary South Asian art. She has a B.S. in Chemistry from Presidency College, Calcutta, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and has performed post-doctoral research at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years, Dipti has built a highly regarded collection of modern and contemporary South Asian art.

Dipti believes deeply in the power of the visual arts and culture to bridge divides in an increasingly fragmented world. She also believes that artists, like few others, can speak truth to power, and that is a high-order virtue that society needs to value and protect.
Dipti currently serves on the Board of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum and on the Advisory Board of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. She is on the Executive Council of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University and chairs
their Arts Council and chairs the Arts Advisory Board of the Institute of South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Previously, Dipti has served on the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Art Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art, on the Collections Committee of the Asia Society Museum, New York, on the Contemporary Art Advisory Panel of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. She was a founding member of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium, San Francisco. She assists the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Asia Society Museum in building their collections of contemporary South Asian art.