Vivek Gupta is Senior Research Associate in Islamic Manuscripts at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He is the curator of A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire‍ (8 September 2026 – 7 March 2027) ‍at the Fitzwilliam Museum. His first book is Wonders of Hindustan: Artists and books in the early modern world (UCL Press, 2027). He is also currently a Research Fellow at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

His second book-length project focuses on scribes, illuminators, and architectural design between South and West Asia during the fifteenth century. Recent work on this include contributions to Marg’s publication of The Chandayan and Calligraphies en caractères arabes dans les zones frontières du monde islamique (CallFront). He is also documenting and analysing the extensive holdings of Islamic and South Asian manuscripts at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College.

Previously, he held two successive three-year postdoctoral positions. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–26) in History of Art at UCL, and before a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Islamic Art (2020–23) at University of Cambridge, Centre of Islamic Studies and Jesus College. In both these roles he taught a range of subjects within the history of Islamic and South Asian art and architecture.

Vivek is also committed to collaboration and public humanities. In 2025, he was a Resident at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent. From 2020 to 2024, he collaborated with organisations in India to produce the webinar, From Konkan to Coromandel: Cultures and Societies of the Deccan World. He has contributed to The Art Newspaperon the status of heritage in South Asia. His several articles on the British Library’s Asian and African Studies blog have made his work on manuscripts available to global audiences. Other recent public-facing scholarship has reframed the concept of wonder for Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online.