Sultana’s Dream and Tales of Amnesia featured in Pop South Asia at Sharjah Art Foundation

Sultana’s Dream and Tales of Amnesia featured in Pop South Asia at Sharjah Art Foundation

Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular is one of the first major exhibitions to provide a substantial survey of modern and contemporary art from South Asia engaging with popular culture. Spanning works from the mid-twentieth century to the present, the exhibition will showcase artists addressing complex issues facing the self and society through irony, play and humour.

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Chitra Ganesh at India Art Fair 2022

Chitra Ganesh at India Art Fair 2022

Renu Modi's Gallery Espace with 76 artists in its booth is one of the largest white cube spaces at the India Art Fair 2022. Amongst the suite of works the Brooklyn-based Chitra Ganesh's eclectic array of surrealist quirky creations spanning comics and reel and real life.

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‘A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask’ in Public Art Dialogue

‘A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask’ in Public Art Dialogue

A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask (2020), digital prints on laminated vinyl, site-specific QUEERPOWER facade installation by Chitra Ganesh, was originally created for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s annual site-specific QUEERPOWER commission. The project is an abundant and temporally layered love letter to New York City. Incorporating both historical and speculative imagery, this public artwork decentralizes New York City’s settler-colonial history to celebrate the narratives of those queer, transgender, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) alongside flora and fauna native to the region.

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Chitra Ganesh at Hawai’i Triennial 2022

Chitra Ganesh at Hawai’i Triennial 2022

Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) will be framed around the fluid concept of Pacific Century - E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea, interweaving themes of history, place, and identity within the context of Hawaiʻi’s unique location at the confluence of Asia-Pacific and Oceania.

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“Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse to open at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
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“Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse to open at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present the first solo exhibition in the Midwest by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Chitra Ganesh. In her multidisciplinary practice, Ganesh draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction, queer theory, comics, Surrealism, Bollywood posters and video games, combining them with her own imagery to present speculative visions of society in the past, present and future.

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New animation, Before the War, on view at Seattle Art Museum

New animation, Before the War, on view at Seattle Art Museum

Chitra Ganesh will be premiering her newest animation at the group show Embodied Change: South Asian Art Across Time at the Seattle Asian Art Museum opening January 14. Before the War, featuring music by Saul Williams, is a meditation on love, memory and loss amidst political polarization and the COVID-19 pandemic and was animated by THE STUDIO NYC.

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