Tiger in the Looking Glass opens September 13 at Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
Gallery Wendi Norris presents Tiger in the Looking Glass, an exhibition of new paintings by Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975 Brooklyn, New York, USA). One of the most preeminent contemporary artists of her generation, Ganesh opens her fifth solo presentation with the gallery. In this body of work, Ganesh expands upon an iconography that she has been building for more than twenty years, taking it in a lush direction of otherworldly, surreal landscapes. The exhibition takes its title from the motifs and Surrealist themes that weave through Ganesh’s work, such as hybridity, portals and mirrors, double consciousness, multiverses, and femme shapeshifters
Chitra Ganesh monograph on sale
We are delighted to announce that Chitra’s first monograph, Chitra Ganesh, is now on sale. Published by DISTANZ, the book is primarily dedicated to Ganesh’s work 2013–2023, while including images and context from 1996 to the present.
Solo show ‘Away From The Watcher’ opens at Hales Gallery NYC, June 6
Hales is delighted to announce Away From the Watcher, Chitra Ganesh's second solo exhibition with the gallery. In the first exhibition dedicated to Ganesh's print works, the show brings together linoleum cuts, digital prints, and screen prints made over the past decade, highlighting this integral strand of her practice.
‘a city will share her secrets if you know how to ask’ featured in Impact: Contemporary Artists at the Hermitage Artist RetreatMarch 10–July 7, 2024
Ganesh’s contribution features a reworking of her 2020 QUEERPOWER! installation at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York, a city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, rendered on translucent fabric panels.
Tree of Life II feature in The Infinite Woman, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, France, April 24-Nov 2, 2024
The Fondation Carmignac is presenting The lnfinite Woman exhibition at Villa Carmignac, on the island of Porquerolles off the coast of Hyères (Var), curated by Alona Pardo.
‘The World That Belongs To Us’ opens November 23, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
This exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian diasporas of the UK, USA and Canada.
New work featured in ‘Botany of Desire’ at Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, October 14, 2023
“Botany of Desire” explores how certain plants have evolved to gratify human desires - specifically for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control and healing - and, in turn, how plant species have used man to meet their own benefit. Given that plants are immobile, they have learned to be the ultimate chemist in order to further their reproduction. The exhibition draws its inspiration from a book of the same title by Michael Pollan, which questions the idea that people are the sole drivers of domestication. Weaving threads from personal histories, the artists share critical representations of flora and vegetation intertwined with vulnerable human experiences.
Ant Queen/Cleopatra on view at Frieze London, October 11-15, Hales Gallery, Booth A5
For the 2023 edition of Frieze London, Hales is delighted to present a selection of works by artists Andrew Bick, Tessa Boffin, Martyn Cross, Chitra Ganesh, Haroun Hayward, John Hoyland, Hew Locke, Tuli Mekondjo, Lucy Stein, Kay WalkingStick, Gray Wielebinski and Laetitia Yhap.
Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future opens at the Clifford Gallery, Colgate University
Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future is now on view at the Clifford Gallery at Colgate University, NY, USA, through 12 November 2023.
Before the War screening in ‘Cosmic Beings’, Cement Fondu, Sydney, 5 August 2023 — 24 September 2023
Queer Power Coloring Book features in Pride event at the Whitney
The Whitney will honor the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies with a full day of activities for all ages on Gansevoort Street, including hands-on artmaking, collaborative coloring projects inspired by artist Chitra Ganesh, Queer History Walking Tours of the Meatpacking District, giveaways, and a special dance performance and workshop by dance collective Bob’s Dance Shop.
Index of the Disappeared at Chicago Cultural Center
SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine features the powerful work of Indigenous artists responding to the “American Indian Wars” alongside artists from the Greater Middle East and its diasporas reacting to the “Global War on Terror.” The exhibition explores how these works complicate and relate to the creative practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) veterans whose experiences profoundly challenge the dominant histories of these long wars.
Orchid Meditations opens at Gallery Espace, New Delhi
With Orchid Meditations, Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh returns to Gallery Espace and New Delhi after a decade.
Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse open at Frost Art Museum Miami
Chitra Ganesh draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction, queer theory, comics, Surrealism, Bollywood posters, and video games, to inform her illustrations and drawings.
Chitra Ganesh in ‘MythMakers: Spectrosynthesis III and Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong
Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III circles around the core notion of “queer mythologies” and delves into modern and contemporary mythologies along with practices of the body, by gathering a diverse range of artistic idioms related to LGBTQ+ perspectives from over 60 artists from Asia and its diasporas.
Index of the Disappeared at Museum of the City of New York
City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space looks under the surface of New York’s image as a secular city and maps the complex and often surprising relationships that connect religion to public space.
Portrait of the Artist as a Unicorn included in We Fancy at the Art Students League of New York
Sultana’s Dream featured in ‘Printmaking in the 21st century’ at the Detroit Institute of Art'
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition that celebrates the range and ingenuity of artwork by contemporary printmakers.
Astral Dance opens at Contemporary Calgary
Contemporary Calgary is pleased to present Astral Dance, the first solo exhibition of works by Chitra Ganesh in Canada, and a significant survey of her practice spanning more than twenty years.
Sultana’s Dream in ‘Art & Design since 1900’ at RISD Museum
Drawing together works on paper, costume and textiles, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts and design, the installation reflects the interconnectedness of the disciplines RISD teaches and the cross pollination among art forms and media that can influence how artists work.