Mya Chau is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. She taught in the Departments of Asian Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies and Art History at Loyola Marymount University, Chapman University and University of California (UCLA). She previously worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute and Getty Villa. 

Mya Chau received her MA (2014) and PhD (2020) with an emphasis on Asian Art History from UCLA. Her research examines Buddhist visual culture and international cultural exchanges in India, China, and Southeast Asia. In 2015, she was a Blakemore Freeman Fellow and recipient of the 2019 Women of Vision Award. Mya has conducted fieldwork in Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, France, and Singapore.