Gemma Sharpe is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art from South Asia, Cold War histories of art, and museum and exhibition studies. She is currently Assistant Professor in Art History at the Cleveland Institute of Art (2023-).

Originally from the United Kingdom, I completed an MFA in Art Writing from Goldsmiths College in 2010 before relocating to Karachi, Pakistan, where I was a Lecturer in Art History at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and a co-coordinator at Vasl Artists’ Association until 2014. I received my PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the same institution between 2019 and 2021. My ongoing book project, Modernist Agencies: Art and Cold War Culture in Pakistan is forthcoming and has been supported by the Modernist Studies Association, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the Asian Cultural Council, and a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art (2022-23), among others.