Indira A. Abiskaroon is a New York-based art historian, curator, and writer. Her research engages diaspora art, particularly in relation to the practices of artists of Asian and/or Caribbean descent. Abiskaroon also specializes in classical reception in global modern and contemporary art and exploring underrepresented modernist narratives.

She is currently the Curatorial Assistant of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. In this role, she helped organize Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon and A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, while supporting exhibitions on Guadalupe Maravilla, Jimmy DeSana, and Thierry Mugler, as well as presentations related to the institution’s 200th anniversary and American Art reinstallation. She has co-curated Spike Lee: Creative Sources, Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, and the forthcoming UOVO Prize presentation on Melissa Joseph.

Previously, she worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she supported the first solo museum survey on Mary Corse, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she worked on numerous projects, including the exhibitions The Fullness of Color: 1960s Painting and Kandinsky (Bilbao), in addition to the revised and redesigned edition of Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z. She has also held positions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Recent independent projects include contributing to the 40th anniversary commemorative portfolio on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha published by the Evergreen Review and curating concurrent exhibitions of artists Kimmah M. Dennis and Marielena Ferrer. She is a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators and an alumna of the organization’s Professional Alliance of Curators of Color (PACC) Fellowship.

Abiskaroon holds a BA in art history and classics from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College and an MA in the history of art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.