Sandhya Jain-Patel.
No two paths to a successful career in the art world look the same. In our series, “Career Stories,” we’re checking in with some of the high-powered people in the art industry to hear about everything from their first brushes with art, to the advice they would give their younger selves.
For Sandhya Jain-Patel, a career in the arts was purely serendipitous. “I double majored in biology and art history in undergrad, fully intending to pursue medicine,” she says. It wasn’t until taking a seminar on Caravaggio her senior year of college that she discovered the field of conservation.