Vidya Dehejia is a retired academic and the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University.

She has published 24 books and numerous academic papers on the art of South Asia, and has curated many exhibitions on the same theme.

She has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government and a Freer Medal from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.

Vidya Dehejia was educated at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, where she gained a first in ancient Indian culture in 1961.

[9] Dehejia was named the fifteenth recipient of the Freer Medal in 2023, and is the first scholar of South Asian art to receive the award.