Chitra Ganesh discusses her piece on view, "All the Farewells," and how growing up Brooklyn informed her artistic pursuits.

There are boundless ways to interpret the artist’s works, each populated with fierce femmes and curious chimera, and layered with symbols.

A hybrid beast, a woman with a cat-like tail and tiger’s head, clad in a magenta jumpsuit, is poised on all fours in the middle of Chitra Ganesh’s large painting, Enter the Jungle (all works 2024).

The worlds in my work evoke “the central mechanism of Surrealism’s theory of poetry: the experience of ‘disorientation,’ engendered by what Breton called ‘the marvelous ability to reach out, without leaving the field of our experience, to two distinct realities, and bring them together to create a spark.”

With "Regeneration," the artist hopes to remind viewers of the "vibrant life that thrives in nature and to reconnect them with elements that transcend the limitations of humanity."

The movement’s core message was and is one of championing radical freedom of thought and modern experiments in literature and visual arts.

The large scale works of art by Chitra Ganesh and Eirini Linardaki are going to make you stop in your tracks, pun intended.

Rummana Hussain (1952–1999) is widely considered one of India’s foremost conceptual artists. I had the great fortune of seeing her last solo show before she died, “In Order to Join,” held at Art in General in New York in October 1998.

The intergenerational artists of the exhibition The World that Belongs to Us draw upon the nuanced colonial history to revisit its ramifications in current times.

This comic is part of a series Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists that illuminates the stories of women artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Inspired by graphic novels, these short takes on artists’ lives were each drawn by a student-illustrator from the Ringling College of Art and Design.

Crafting a career in the arts is notoriously difficult. Sustaining oneself financially while doing so? An art in and of itself. To help those finding their footing, CULTURED asked nine seasoned artists—including Marilyn Minter, Walter Robinson, and Paul Rucker—to shed light on the most unexpected yet effective advice they’ve ever received. Read below for their tips on being sensitive, going on IG live, and navigating workplace relationships.

Artist Chitra Ganesh maps how the visual language of childhood is produced by powerful ideologies, unpacking a nearly ubiquitous Indian food chart as evidence of the Indian government’s attempts to systematically erase a multivalent, secular, and diverse India.

Today, contemporary artists of the South Asian diaspora are exploring futurism, hybridity, and spiritual traditions to shed light on migration and the subsequent search for home. Rajni Perera, Misha Japanwala, Suchitra Mattai, Chitra Ganesh, and Ashwini Bhat draw inspiration from their global ancestries, namely cultures from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Guyana, and India.

Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book honors LGBTQI+ activists and cultural icons.

The New York-based artist on her influences, ongoing exhibition and being part of the Indian diaspora in the US

We meet Chitra Ganesh and talk about her show, Dreaming in Multiverse at the Frost Art Museum.

‘Orchid Meditations’, the Brooklyn-based artist’s solo in Delhi, offers a glimpse of her new experimental language.

Standing atop ladder placed on a staircase landing, Chitra Ganesh cuts an artistic figure as she fine-tunes a large mural with exacting brush strokes. This is where I first see her, three days before the opening of her solo show, Orchid Meditations at Delhi's Gallery Espace. Her decisive flow and the detailed image of a three-headed woman embracing herself, belie the fact that she only began painting this work a few hours before.

New York City’s Port Authority building has never really been known for its good looks. Rather, the Midtown bus terminal has garnered a reputation for its chaotic grit — and the overwhelming feeling that, at any moment, your bus might leave without you.

A circular gallery at Contemporary Calgary that surrounds the former planetarium’s dome is the perfect space to contemplate the complex multidimensional cosmology created by Chitra Ganesh. Whether it’s a mural, charcoal drawing, mixed-media painting or animation, Ganesh skilfully bends myth and gender stereotypes to create her own unique universe.