Future Perfect: “Born in Flames” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Art in America
“Born in Flames” brings together works by fourteen female- and nonbinary-identifying contemporary artists who present speculative narratives concerned with social liberation.
Interview with Gayatri Sinha, Critical Collective India
From classical Buddhist texts to early science fiction, Chitra Ganesh speaks of the femme body.
Chitra Ganesh: A City Will Share Her Secrets If You Know How to Ask, Brooklyn Rail, by Amber Jamilla Musser
As this year’s QUEERPOWER commission, Chitra Ganesh has filled 10 panels of Leslie Lohman’s façade with images of queer activism, joy, and meditations on history, possibility, and gentrification
Ten Artists Presenting Hertopia, Female Centered Visions
“In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.”— Octavia E. Butler
Artists have long turned to the spiritual and mystical in times of crisis or amid objectionable conditions, seeking alternative understandings of reality.
Dialogue with Sung Hwan Kim published in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts
This collection of seventy-three letters written in 2020 captures an unprecedented moment in politics and society through the experiences of Asian-American artists, curators, educators, art historians, editors, writers, and designers.
Myriad tales of laughter, Deccan Chronicle, March 2021
A group-art exhibition which began in the city recently and is on till June 2021, showcases laughter through art.
Chitra Ganesh: A Universe of One’s Own
Art Asia Pacific, Issue 122, March/April 2021, by Mimi Wong.
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski and Chitra Ganesh in conversation
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski and Chitra Ganesh sat down to
have this conversation together via Zoom on November
8th, 2020. This exchange, originally planned for March, had
been postponed along with the exhibition due to COVID-19
shutdowns across the United States. They recorded this
conversation in the midst of the US election week, and held
space for the following curiosities.
'I wanted to honor this moment': what to expect from US artists in 2021, The Guardian
After an unusual, unprecedented year, upcoming art will reflect as well as soldier on with a range of outdoor and indoor projects
Chitra Ganesh on Utopia, Futurity, and Dissent, Ocula, October 2020
Conversation between Chitra Ganesh and Jareh Das.
Chitra Ganesh with Megan Liberty, Brooklyn Rail, July 2020
“To have a more just possibility of our future, we have to keep looking back into the past differently, in a way that upends our ideas of teleology and progress.”
Chitra Ganesh and Tausif Noor, BOMB 2020
Ancient mythologies, popular folklore, queer futurisms: in the art of Chitra Ganesh, these seemingly disparate elements swirl together in fantastic combinations as pathways for reconfiguring the present.
‘On the value of process and what success actually means’, Creative Independent, March 2020
Artist Chitra Ganesh on the cultural iconography that informs her work, working across a wide variety of mediums, and what we can learn from being attuned to process—both other people's and our own.
‘Stonewall 50’ exhibit at Contemporary Art Museum Houston explores LGBT themes
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, a famous catalyst of the gay rights movement, a number of museums and galleries across the U.S. are mounting commemorative shows, looking for perspective and maybe inspiring more activism in a realm where so much has changed, and yet so much hasn't.
Pushing gender boundaries through art, Indian Express, Jan 2019
Chitra Ganesh is an artist who uses comic strips in her works to narrate stories that push the boundaries of gender and power representations.
Chitra Ganesh by Rahel Aima, 4 Columns, 2018
It’s the late nineteenth century in the British Raj. In my colonial tropical fantasy it’s a swampy, starry night. A fancy begum, an aristocratic lady, is reclining in a cane-and-Burma-teak easy chair.
Artforum Review of The Scorpion Gesture, Rubin Museum, October 2018
As part of the Rubin Museum of Art’s yearlong exploration of the “future,” Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh took inspiration from the institution’s collection of Tibetan art to examine how the dystopic present can be changed fora better tomorrow in two separate, yet connected, exhibitions.
Jillian Steinauer, Her Garden, a Mirror review, New York Times, October 2018
At a time when stories of sexual misconduct continue to dominate the news, feminist utopias offer a refuge. For her solo show at the Kitchen, "Her Garden, a Mirror:' the Brooklyn artist Chitra Ganesh finds inspiration in a remarkable utopia that's over a century old.