Senior Director

Rishika assomull

South-East Asian Modern Art

Rishika Assomull is the Senior Director at Villepin in Hong Kong, where she leads strategic initiatives and strengthens the gallery's relationships with collectors, estates, and institutions engaged in the Asian art discourse.

Prior to joining Villepin, she spent 11 years at Sotheby's, where she served as Auctioneer, Deputy Director, and Senior Specialist of Modern Art. She began her career at Sotheby’s New York and later moved to Sotheby’s Singapore to deepen her expertise in Southeast Asian Art. Subsequently, she relocated to Sotheby’s Hong Kong, integrating Southeast Asian Art into the global Modern and Contemporary Art departments.

Her publication, “The Jakarta Salon: The Patronage of the Papadimitrious, Shaping Modern Art in Indonesia,” offers the first educational account of the pioneering 20th-century Indonesian art collection of the late Alexander Papadimitriou. This 316-page art history book was published in June 2025 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG), a division of Kompas Gramedia, Indonesia’s largest media conglomerate. The book launch took place at ARTJOG 2025 in collaboration with the grand opening of the Jogja National Museum.

She double majored in Art History and Business at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, USA, where she was awarded the Lerman Neubauer Fellowship and won the Rosalind W. Levine Prize for an exceptional honours thesis in the History of Art.