This episode we are beyond thrilled to be joined by incredible artist Chitra Ganesh. Born and raised in Brooklyn and Queens, and currently based in Brooklyn, Chitra’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses drawing, painting, animations, collages, and many more media to question and disrupt narratives around gender, sexuality, power, and identity.

In conjunction with her solo show “Nightswimmers”, Chitra Ganesh sits down to talk about the process, influences and references of her latests body of work, on view at Hales New York from 18 November 2021 - 5 February 2022.

A conversation between Ganesh and Ghani about their work as radical archivists, and how both are drawn to the fascinating minutiae that can make up an archive.

Smithsonian American Art Museum virtual program, with Chitra Ganesh in conversation with curator Saisha Grayson about her collaborative video "My Dreams, My Works Must Wait Till After Hell" (7:14 mins., 2011), made with Simone Leigh.

UCLA Department of Art Lecture, May 21 2021.

Chitra Ganesh is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. For the past 20 years, Ganesh’s drawing based practice has shed light on narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature and art. Ganesh’s installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms. Her studies in literature, semiotics, and social theory have been critical to a steady engagement with narrative and deconstruction that animates her work. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with solo exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1, The Warhol Museum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Brooklyn Museum, Rubin Museum, Kitchen, and most recently, A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, the 4th Annual QUEERPOWER Façade Commission at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City.

Her work Sultana’s Dream was recently acquired by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh, honey… A queer reading of the collection in fall 2021. Learn more about Sultana’s Dream in UMMA’s online presentation of the exhibition.

An interview with Chitra Ganesh conducted 2020 September 1, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Ganesh's home in Brooklyn, New York.­

On the occasion of "Salman Toor: How Will I Know," Salman Toor speaks with artist Chitra Ganesh about the intersections in their artistic practices.

A recording of a live conversation between Chitra Ganesh and scholar Amber Musser on queer femininity, racial equity, and Ganesh’s ongoing practice. Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice brings to light narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature, history, and art. Musser is a Professor of American Studies at George Washington University and her research focuses on race, sexuality, and aesthetics. This program was co-hosted by IPCNY and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Since 1985 the Guerrilla Girls have been committed to bringing into focus how racial and gender inequality impact which artworks are exhibited, circulated, and supported. Join 2018 Rubin Museum Fellow Chitra Ganesh and the Guerrilla Girls for a discussion about how individuals, working with or within institutions, can take responsibility as we move into a new cultural era.

Rubin Museum Fellow Chitra Ganesh talks about the power of animation, her medium of choice in the interactive exhibition “The Scorpion Gesture.” Why does she love animation? Because it brings alive unfamiliar ideas in a relatable visual language.

For this lecture, organized in conjunction with “Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room,” artist Chitra Ganesh will draw upon her recent visual research on the aesthetics and performative gestures of protest, exploring the notion of disobedience as it has been mobilized in political protest and social movements outside of the United States.

Video interview produced for 2012 exhibition She, The Question at Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden.