India Mandelkern

India Mandelkern was born in Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate of Middlebury College. She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, she has worked as a curator, consultant, and critic, and has written on art, culture, design, and the social connections that they sustain for a variety of publications, such as Vice , Curbed , Los Angeles Magazine , Roads & Kingdoms , Wine & Spirits , Eater , and the Los Angeles Review of Books . From 2016-2018...See more

India Mandelkern was born in Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate of Middlebury College. She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, she has worked as a curator, consultant, and critic, and has written on art, culture, design, and the social connections that they sustain for a variety of publications, such as Vice , Curbed , Los Angeles Magazine , Roads & Kingdoms , Wine & Spirits , Eater , and the Los Angeles Review of Books . From 2016-2018 she served as a fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she studied the intersections among placemaking and public art. There, she created Chris Burden's Urban Light: A Field Guide (2018), an alternative historical take on one of LA's most iconic landmarks. She currently works at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (LACMTA) and lives in Los Angeles. See less