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

2011Solo Exhibition Nature Morte, Berlin
 
2009The 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
 
2007Upon Her Precipice Thomas Erben, New York
Haas & Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland
 
20051 x 1, Artist CommissionsJersey City Museum, New Jersey
Written on Wind and WaterGoliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, New York
 
2003Her Secret Missions Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York (catalogue)
 
2001Myth/Making: Contemporary Constructions UFMG CentroCultural, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011Chitra 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
 
2010Digression 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
 
2009Harlem 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 
 
2008Everywhere 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
 
2006Residency Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden (IASPIS residency)
 
2004Statements 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
2003Winner of the third prize in the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts
 
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

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