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Stephen P. Huyler

Stephen P. Huyler is an art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer, and author. His life has been dedicated to exploring, surveying, preserving, and celebrating India’s rich artistic and cultural heritage. For 50 years, he has travelled through Indian villages for an average of four months each year, and his seven books, including Transformed by India: A Life (2024), invoke an India rarely seen by outsiders and unknown to many Indians today. He has been a Consultant/ Guest Curator for more than 25 major museum exhibitions of Indian art, with solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian, the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging.