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Chitra Ganesh
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Inspired by mythological narratives, present day imperialism and queer politics, Chitra Ganesh uses her work as a means to question the many oppositions that lie within the framework of the so-called ‘society’ we live in. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Chitra received her Bachelor’s degree in Art-Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University in 1996, and her Master’s degree in Fine Art from Columbia University in...
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Inspired by mythological narratives, present day imperialism and queer politics, Chitra Ganesh uses her work as a means to question the many oppositions that lie within the framework of the so-called ‘society’ we live in. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Chitra received her Bachelor’s degree in Art-Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University in 1996, and her Master’s degree in Fine Art from Columbia University in 2002.
Through her digital collage, drawing, mural painting, photography and installation work, Ganesh explores different cultures, both Eastern and Western. Using her diverse visual vocabulary, she ceaselessly strives to eliminate all those boundaries that exist in reality between race, sex and sexual orientation. Her bold and surreal images explore varying representations of female sexuality and power. Ganesh’s unique approach to storytelling and repeated references to Hindu mythology may be traced back to her Indian roots. In her comic book like sequences of digital prints, Ganesh includes snippets of text, successfully marrying the traditional with the post-modern in a truly unique aesthetic.
Solo exhibitions of Ganesh’s work include ‘Project Space’, Haas & Fischer, Zurich, 2007; ‘Upon Her Precipice’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2007; ‘Written on Wind and Water’, Goliath Visual Space, New York, 2005; and ‘Her Secret Missions’, Momenta Art, New York, 2003. She has participated in several group shows including ‘7 Beauties’, Contrast Gallery, Beijing and Shanghai, 2008; ‘The Furious Gaze’, Montehemorso Cultural Center, Spain, 2008; ‘Contemporary Indian Art: Between Continuity and Transformation’, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, 2007; ‘Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves’, ZKM Gallery, Germany, 2007; Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, 2007 and 2006; ‘One Way or Another’, Asia Society, New York, 2006; and ‘What War?’, White Box, New York, 2006. Ganesh received the Astraea Visual Arts award in 2004 and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2005. The artist lives and works in New York.
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Born
January 1, 1975
New York
Education
2002 Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Columbia University, New York 1996 Bachelor of Arts, Art-Semiotics an Comparative Literature, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 'A Zebra Among Horses', Gallery...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 'A Zebra Among Horses', Gallery Espace, New Delhi2012 'The Ghost Effect in Real Time', Tilton Gallery, New York2012 'Transformations & Transgressions', Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh2012 'Flickering Myths', Gallery Wendll Norris, San Francisco2012 'She, the Question', Gotenburg Kunsthalle, Sweden2011 'The Word of God(ess): Chitra Ganesh', The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh2011 'The Strangling Power of Dust and Stars', Nature Morte, Berlin 2009-10 'On-site 2: Her Silhouette Returns', Site specific installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York 2009 'The Ocean Beneath', Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai in collaboration with Thomas Erben Gallery, New York 2009 FIAC Solo Presentation, with Haas & Fischer, Paris 2007 ‘Project Space 1 + 2: Loukia Alavanou’, Haas & Fischer, Zurich 2007 ‘Upon Her Precipice’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York 2005 1 x 1, Artist Commissions, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey 2005 ‘Written on Wind and Water’, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, New York 2003 ‘Her Secret Missions’, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York 2001 ‘Myth / Making, Contemporary Constructions’, UFMG CentroCultural, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Be/Longing', Artists from the South Asian Women's Creative Collective at Smith Center for the Arts, Joan Hisakoa Gallery, Washington2013 'Salaam Bombay', Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia2013 'Me Love you Long Time', Boston Center for the Arts | Mills Gallery, Boston
2013 'No Sun Without Shadow', Lu Magnus, New York2012 'The Phenomenal World', Otto Zoo, Geneva 2012 'Works on Paper- 2012', Gallery Espace, New Delhi2012 'P28 Public Billboard Project', Lisboa and Porto, Protrugal2012 'Super Human', Aljira: A center for Art, Newark, New Jersey2012 'You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been & LIFT 21', The Kitchen, NY 2012 'Stargazing', Rossi and Rossi, London 2012 'Under the Influence', Lehman College Contemporary Art Gallery, NY 2012 'Loss for Words', Art Musings, Mumbai 2011-12 'So, Who Do You Think You Are?', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2011-12 'And The Falchion Passed Through His Neck...', latitude 28, New Delhi 2011 ' Printed Histories: 16 Years of Print Portfolios', Exit Art, NY2011 'India is Now….', Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany2011 'Surreptitious Fondness', NARS foundation, Brooklyn NY2011 'Experimental Shorts', Coney Island Film Festival, Brooklyn NY2011 'Alpha’s Bet not Over Yet', New Musuem, NY2011 'Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature',
presented by Harmony Art Foundation at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharah Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2011 'Seduction by Masquerade', Nature Morte, New Delhi2011 'Tradition, Trauma, Transformation: Representations of Women by Chitra Ganesh, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh', David Winton Bell Gallery List Arts Center, Providence RI2011 'Future of the Past', Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai 2011 'Concurrent India', Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland2010 'Anarchy: In Search of a New World Order', Harlem Pop in conjunction with Society HAE2010 'Digression', Hendershot Gallery, New York2010 'Malleable Memory', Aicon Gallery, New York2010 'Other Than Beauty', Friedman Benda Gallery, New York 2010 'Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny', The Andy Warhol, Museum, Pittsburgh 2010 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri 2010 'A Wild Gander: Artists from the South Asian Women's Creative Collective', BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn 2010 'Hair Tactics', Jersey City Museum, New Jersey 2009-10 'Outside In: Indian Art Abroad', Sun Vallery Center for the Arts, Ketchum 2009-10 'Harlem Postcards', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 2009 'Have We Moved Away From Whats Hotter Than Curry Yet?', Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi 2009 'Moment as Monument', presented by Seven Art, New Delhi and Thomas Erben, New York at Travancore Palace, New Delhi 2009 'Pixel Power', The Loft, Mumbai 2009 'Anomalies: From Nature to the Future', Rossi & Rossi, London 2009 'Commune', Black and White Gallery, New York 2009 'Re-Claim/ Re-Cite/ Re-Cycle', presented by Latitude 28 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi; Bose Pacia, Kolkata 2009 'My Little India', Marella Gallery, Beijing 2009 'Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs', Yale School of Art, Connecticut, USA 2009 'Life is A Stage', Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai 2008 ‘Everywhere Is War (and Rumors of War)’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai 2008 'Fire Walkers: Contemporary Artists from India and South Asia', Stux Gallery, New York 2008 'Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India', d.e.n. contemporary art and Western Project, Culver City 2008 ’Art and War’, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2008 ’7 Beauties’, Contrast Gallery, Beijing and Shanghai 2008 ’The Other Mainstream II’, Arizona State University Art Museum, USA. 2008 ’Exploding the Lotus’, Art and Culture Centre of Hollywood, Florida, USA 2008 ’Pandora's Box’, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan, Canada 2008 'Facing East, Facing West’, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allenwtown, USA 2008 'The Furious Gaze’, Montehemorso Cultural Center, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2008 ’Of This Tale I Cannot Guarantee a Word...’, Royal College of Art, London 2007 ’Sex in the City’, Dumbo Arts Centre, New York 2007 ’Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves’, ZKM Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany 2007 ’Intersections’, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Centre, New York 2007 ’Hidden’, ABC No Rio, New York 2007 ’Sufferation’, Hotel 39, Honolulu 2007 ’Spectral Evidence’, Rotunda Gallery Brooklyn, New York 2007 Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi 2007 ’One Way or Another’, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, Traveling to Berkeley Museum, University of California, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles 2007 ‘Tributaries’, 516 Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2007 ‘Troubled Waters of Permeability’, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, New York 2007 'SimulAsian', Pier 92, New York 2006 Nature Morte, New Delhi 2006 Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Zeina Assaf Cuchifritos Gallery, New York 2006 ’One Way or Another’, Asian Society, New York 2006 ’Subcontingent: the Subcontinent in Contemporary Art’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, Italy 2006 ’Mural Show’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York 2006 ’Wild Girls’, Exit Art, New York 2006 ’If A Cat Gives Birth To Kittens In An Oven, Are They Kittens Or Biscuits?’, Roebling Hall, New York 2006 ’E7 Emerging Artist Exhibition’, Aljira Centre for Contemporary Art, New Jersey 2006 ‘Papering’, Deutsche Bank, New York 2006 ‘Nicola Durvasula, Chitra Ganesh, Tejal Shah’ at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York 2006 ’Inner Limits’, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Centre, New York 2006 ’No More Drama’, Center for Book Arts, New York 2006 ’Detained!’, Asian American Centre, New York 2006 ‘What War?’, White Box, New York 2006 ‘Deuces ex Machina, cur, Momenta Art’, Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 2006 ‘Ex-otica’, Vitaminarte, Turin, Italy 2005 ’Time's Arrow’, Rotunda Gallery Brooklyn, New York 2005 ’The Gift: Building a Collection’, Queens Museum of Art New York 2005 ’Cities, Art, Recovery’, Tribeca Performing Arts Center Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York 2005 ‘739 Feet Running Wall’, Gwangju Contemporary Art Museum Gwangju, Korea 2005 ’Home and The World’, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey 2005 ’Characters: Scene I and Scene II’, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, New Jersey; Silvermine Guild Arts Institute, Connecticut 2005 ’Fatal Love’, Queens Museum of Art, New York 2005 ‘1 x 1’, Jersey City Museum 2005 ’Written on Wind and Water’, Goliath Visual Space Brooklyn, New York 2005 ‘Wear Me Out’, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives , Los Angeles 2004 Limehouse Town Hall London, UK 2004 ’NextNextArt’, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York 2004 ‘Six Feet Under’, White Box, New York 2004 ’Color Theory’, Vitamin Arte Turin, Italy 2004 ’Summer Selections: Playpen’, The Drawing Centre, New York 2004 ’Enchantment’, Wave Hill, New York 2004 ‘Supersalon’, Samson Projects, Boston 2004 ’Treasure Maps’, Apex Art, New York 2004 ’ArtSpace’, New Haven, Connecticut 2004 ’East of the Sun, West of the Moon’, White Columns, New York 2004 ’Masala’, William Benton Museum Trinity College, 2004 ’Open House’, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 2004 ‘Floorplay’, Brooklyn College Art Gallery, New York 2004 ’Pilot 01’, Limehouse Town Hall, London 2003 Momenta Art, Art Basel Miami, New York 2003 ’Through Customs’, Bose Pacia, New York 2003 ’Theory of Relative Power’, Abrons Art Gallery, New York 2003 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York 2003 ’Her Secret Missions’, Momenta Art Brooklyn, New York 2003 ’Words’, Egizio's Project, New York 2003 ’637 Feet of Running Wall’, Queens Museum of Art, New York 2002 ’Queer Visualities’, Staller Art Center Stonybrook University, New York 2002 ’Charlie’, P.S. 1, New York, 2002 Edwin Ramoran Gallery, 2002 ‘Mango’, Talwar Art Gallery, New York 2002 ’Slant’, Diverseworks Houston, Texas 2002 ’Culture in a Jar’, Longwood Arts Center Bronx, New York 2002 ‘Columbia MFA Thesis Show’, Mink Building, New York 2002 ‘Homegrown’, Commons Gallery, Barney Building, New York University, New York 2001 ’Earthquake Relief International’, Lakshana Gallery, Hyderabad 2001’Crossing the Line’, Queens Museum of Art, New York 2001’Shaken and Stirred’, Bose Pacia, New York 2001 ’Myth/Making: Contemporary Constructions’, UFMG Centro Cultural Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2001 ’AlieNation’, Quay Gallery Toronto, Canada
Joint Exhibitions
2013 With Dorothea Tanning at The Armory Show, New York presented by Gallery Wendi Norris2011 'Divine Horsemen', with Simone Leigh at Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Participations
2013 'Female Power', Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands2013 Armory Show presented by Gallery Espace, New Delhi2012-13 'Re-picturing the Feminine: New and Hybrid Realities in the Artworld', Gallery OED, Kochi
2012 'Pose/Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now', SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose 2010 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today', The Saatchi Gallery, London 2009 'Failed Plot', part of KIAF 09 at COEX, Seoul 2009 'Transitional Aesthetics', Beijing 798 Biennial 2009 'Beyond Appearances', Lehman College Art Gallery, New York 2009 'India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai 2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain 2007 ’Contemporary Indian Art between Continuity and Transformation’, Spazio Oberdan, Milan 2007 ’SimulAsian’, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, New York 2007 ‘25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General’, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, organized by Art in General at UBS Art Gallery, New York 2007 ’Sultana's Dream’, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Exit Art, New York 2006 ‘Scope Art Fair’, represented by Thomas Erben Gallery, New York 2005 ‘Artissima 05’, Vitamin Arte, Italy 2005 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Asian Art Festival, Poncheon, Korea 2003 ’Artists in The Marketplace Annual Exhibition’, Bronx Museum of Art, New York 2002 ’SAVAC Annual Exhibition’, Living Arts Centre, Ontario, Canada 1996 12th International Cleveland Drawing Biennale, Cleveland Art Gallery & Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
Honours and Awards
2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Creative...
2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Creative Arts2012 Timehri Award for Leadership in the Arts, Presented by Aljira, A Center For the Arts2010 Art Matters Foundation Grant2010 Lower East Side Printshop Special Editions Residency2010 Hermitage Artist Center Residency2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship2009 Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions 2008 Smack Mellon Studio Residency, New York 2007 Art Omi International Artists' Residency, New York 2007 Weir Farm Residency, Wilton, Connecticut
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