John Guy

John Guy is curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with research interests in the area of Hindu-Buddhist-Jain sculpture and maritime Southeast Asia. He was elected a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries in 2003 and has served as an advisor to UNESCO on historical sites in Southeast Asia. Major publications include Indian Temple Sculpture (2007), Woven Cargoes. Indian Textiles in the East (1999), Indian Art and Connoisseurship, editor (1995), Arts of India: 1550-1900, co-editor (1990), Ceramic Traditions of Southeast Asia (1989), and Oriental Trade Ceramics in South East Asia (1986). He has curated a number of international exhibitions, most recently Indian Temple Sculpture, The Art of Devotion, in Barcelona (2007), and contributed to many others, such as Gold and Civilisation (National Museum of Australia, 2001), Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800 (V&A, London, 2004), La sculpture du Champa (Musée Guimet, Paris, 2005), and Cholas. Sacred Bronzes of Southern India (Royal Academy, London, 2006-7).