Biography
Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975)
Education
| 2002 2001 1996 | MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture BA Art-semiotics and Comparative Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI magna cum laude, phi beta kappa |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2011 | Solo Exhibition Nature Morte, Berlin |
| 2009 | The The Ocean Beneath Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India On Site 2: The Silhouette Returns(curator Klaus Beinsenbach) P.S.1/MoMA, New York FIAC Solo PresentationParis, France, with Haas & Fischer |
| 2007 | Upon Her Precipice Thomas Erben, New York Haas & Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2005 | 1 x 1, Artist CommissionsJersey City Museum, New Jersey Written on Wind and WaterGoliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2003 | Her Secret Missions Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York (catalogue) |
| 2001 | Myth/Making: Contemporary Constructions UFMG CentroCultural, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | Chitra Ganesh, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh (curator Jo-ann Conklin) David Winton Bell Gallery Lists Arts Center, Providence, Rhode Island Gallery Espace India Art Summit, New Delhi Future of the Past, Gayatri Sinha, Quddus Mirza, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai Contemporary Art from India Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki « La route de la soie » (The Silk Road) Tri Postal, Lille, France |
| 2010 | Digression Hendershot Gallery, New York Divine Horsemen: Chitra Ganesh & Simone Leigh (curator by Latoya Frazier) Mason Gross Gallery, New Jersey Malleable Memory (curator Nitin Mukhul) Aicon Gallery, New York 50 Artists Photograph the Future (curator Dean Daderko) Higher Pictures, New York Other than Beauty (curator Janine Cirincione) Friedman Benda Gallery, New York Bunny Redux (curator Eric Shiner) Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Hair Tactics (curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado) Jersey City Museum Empire Strikes Back Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue) The Art of War, CEPA, Buffalo, New York No more bad girls? UNpossessing Femininity (curator Kathrin Becker & Claudia Mario Stemberger) Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, traveling to Stiftelsen Bryggen, Norway (catalogue) This Modern World? Billboard Project, Historic Bund, Shanghai (curator Mathieu Borysevic) Bring Me a Lion Webster University Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Wild Gander (curator Raseera Khan) Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn |
| 2009 | Harlem Postcards Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Commune (curator Dominique Nahas) Black & White Gallery, New York India Xianzai 印度现在 Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (catalogue) Anomalies (curator Jaishri Abichandani) Rossi and Rossi, London, United Kingdom (catalogue) Hotter than Curry? (curator Meenakshi Thirukode) Gallery OED, Cochin, India Transitional Aesthetics Beijing 798 Biennial, Longmarch Space, Beijing Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs (curators Jaret Vadera and Robert Storr) Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut Beyond Appearances Lehman College Art Gallery, New York There Goes my Hero Center for Book Arts, New York Moment as Monument Thomas Erben at Travancore Palace, New Delhi |
| 2008 | Everywhere is War (and Rumours of War) (curator Shaheen Merali) Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India Democracy in America (curator Nato Thompson) Creative Time, Armory, New York Tales of Wonder and Woe: Fairy Tales and Contemporary Art Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, New York Modern India (India Moderna) IVAM, Valencia, Spain (catalogue) Critical Studio – Dialogue with South Asian Artists Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia College, New York Apocalyptic Pop (curator Kathleen Goncharov) Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York Art and War CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York 7 Beauties (curator Lilly Wei) Contrasts Gallery, Beijing and Shanghai |
Projects / Residencies / Awards
| 2006 | Residency Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden (IASPIS residency) |
| 2004 | Statements of Silence (co-author of one of the three best essays) The Symposium on Visual Arts Criticism of the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Residency Cité International des Arts, Paris |
| 2003 | Winner of the third prize in the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts |
