Ms Joyee Roy (Ghosh), UK Visiting Fellowship, 2013-14, while Assistant Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, for a study of British artists who worked in India in the 18th and 19th centuries, and other British artists who depicted Indian subject matter.
Joyee has been working at the Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH), Kolkata, India since 2003 as a Documentation & Curatorial Officer. From June 2016 she took on a new role In-charge of the Documentation and Photography Unit of VMH. She is the custodian of total collection of around 29,000 objects. Previously, Joyee worked at the Rabindra Bharati University Museum, Kolkata as a Trainee Guide cum Cataloguer for 4 years from June, 1999 to May, 2003.
Joyee is the Nodal Officer of the JATAN database for collection management maintained by Ministry of Culture, the Government of India. Her other responsibilities, besides the documentation of the VMH collection) include: gallery planning; display in the permanent galleries; curating exhibitions; preparation of publication materials and organising several events i.e. lectures, workshops, gallery talks related to the collection. Joyee also works on educational activities including organizing seminars, workshops, visitor surveys and events for all ages in order to connect the museum to different communities. Sbe provides a variety of activities and prepares contents for multimedia kiosks. She also assists scholars from India and abroad regarding their queries related to collection of VM and keeps the official website of Victoria Memorial Hall up to date
Joyee was awarded a place on the International Training Programme of the British Museum in 2011, and was based in the Department of Asia. Her partner placement was spent at Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery. In 2011 participants were asked to develop a proposal for a small temporary exhibition using an object from the British Museum’s collections. Joyee’s exhibition project proposal was entitled Fish: A Universal Icon of World Culture.
She has also held a number of other fellowships: she was the 2014 Art Institute of Chicago fellow on Exhibition Management and in 2017 took a placement at the V&A Museum London, textile conservation studio
In November 2015 Joyee attended the ITP Mumbai Workshop Creating Museums of World Stories held at CSMVS and was attended by many ITP fellows from different years and countries, UK partners and British Museum Colleagues. In her project group, Joyee worked on an exhibition concept entitled Carpet Connections: Usak and the World focusing on the city of Usak in Turkey. In November 2017 Joyee attended the MA conference in Manchester with fellows from Kenya, Palestine and South Africa and attended sessions on temporary exhibitions and permanent display at UK partners Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Museum as well as the People’s History Museum.
In 2022 Joyee was awarded an ITP Research Grant for her project A comparative study on styles, techniques and themes between two categories (On spot and Stay at home) of depictions on India by the British artists of 18th and 19th centuries.