Chitra Ganesh is an artist based in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, New York

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Ganesh was born in New York

New York

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, the daughter of Indian immigrant parents. She works in various media including drawing

Drawing

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 and installation

Installation art

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, inspired by topics including South Asia

South Asia

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n history, myth and legend, poetry

Poetry

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, imperialism

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 and queer

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 politics. She has also contributed to publications such as the anthology Juicy Mother 2, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Award

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s, edited by Jennifer Camper

Jennifer Camper

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She received her MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 in Visual Arts from Columbia University

Columbia University

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, New York

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, in 2002.

Selected exhibitions

2011

• "The Strangling Power of Dust and Stars" June 11 - July 30, 2011, Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art. It currenty has three locations, galleries in New Delhi, Gurgaon , and Berlin . Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.- History :The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally...
  
  , Berlin.

2008

• Contradictions and Complexities, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, California

2007

• Upon Her Precipice, (solo exhibition), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
• Haas & Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland
• Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
• Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006

• Deuces ex Machina, Market Gallery, Glasgow
• Ex-otica, Vitaminarte, Turin, Italy
• Papering, Deutsche Bank, New York

2005

• 1 x 1, Artist Commissions, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
• The Gift: Building a Collection, Queens Museum of Art, New York
• 739 feet running wall, Gwangju Contemporary Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

2004

• East of the Sun West of the Moon, White Columns, New York

2002

• Charlie, PS 1, New York

2001

• Myth/Making: Contemporary Constructions, UFMG CentroCultural, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

External links

• Chitra Ganesh at Gallery Nature Morte
• Chitra Ganesh at The Arts Trust
• Review of work Online Magazine
• Chitra Ganesh at Wavehill.org
• Further information, texts and images from the Saatchi Gallery
• Chitra Ganesh on ArtNet.com
• Chitra Ganesh at Haas & Fischer