A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask (2020), digital prints on laminated vinyl, site-specific QUEERPOWER facade installation by Chitra Ganesh, was originally created for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s annual site-specific QUEERPOWER commission. The project is an abundant and temporally layered love letter to New York City. Incorporating both historical and speculative imagery, this public artwork decentralizes New York City’s settler-colonial history to celebrate the narratives of those queer, transgender, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) alongside flora and fauna native to the region.

Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) will be framed around the fluid concept of Pacific Century - E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea, interweaving themes of history, place, and identity within the context of Hawaiʻi’s unique location at the confluence of Asia-Pacific and Oceania.

Chitra Ganesh will be premiering her newest animation at the group show Embodied Change: South Asian Art Across Time at the Seattle Asian Art Museum opening January 14. Before the War, featuring music by Saul Williams, is a meditation on love, memory and loss amidst political polarization and the COVID-19 pandemic and was animated by THE STUDIO NYC.

Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present Three Fates, featuring works by artists Ambreen Butt, Chitra Ganesh and Eva Schlegel at Fort Mason Center Pier 2 in San Francisco. Three Fates will be the seventh exhibition in the gallery’s innovative offsite exhibition model.

The project Sultana’s Dream was inspired by the Bengali Muslim feminist writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s early 20th-century story of the same title. The prints–all black linocuts on tan paper—both illustrate elements of the text and use its imagery and themes to explore urgent topics of the political present.

Hales is delighted to announce Nightswimmers, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of works by Chitra Ganesh.

Infinitude presents works by six visual artists, each of whose vision is turned toward the future. How is the future being shaped? By, and for, whom?

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. In 1980 Lucy Lippard argued that feminist art is “neither a style nor a movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.”

Chitra Ganesh is thrilled to announce the release of her self-published Queer Power! A Time Traveling Coloring Book this week, which celebrates the queer and transgender histories of downtown Manhattan and the neighborhoods adjacent to the Leslie Lohman Museum.

For decades, even centuries, queer visual culture has thrived by reinterpreting existing cultural images as a means of forging identity, finding community, and insisting on distinct representations.

Selected pieces from Tales of Amnesia, Ganesh’s first series drawing from the Amar Chitra Katha comic book series, on show at 25th anniversary show at Thomas Erben Gallery.

Hales is delighted to announce in between, ours — an exhibition of recent work by five artists from the gallery’s roster, including Anthony Cudahy, Chitra Ganesh, Andrea Geyer, Sunil Gupta and Gray Wielebinski.

THURSDAY MAY 20, 2021 6:30 PM PDT

License to Laugh brings together artworks that engender altered perceptions, and awaken nuances of playfulness and new meaning.

Chitra Ganesh will debut a new suite of prints at the Born in Flames exhibition at the Bronx Museum, opening April 28.

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to announce “UnRealism,” an exhibition of over 30 paintings by 11 women artists that reflect their own highly personal response and attitude to the ‘unrealism’ of our times.

The annual award recognizes women-identifying artists over 40 years of age who have made significant contributions to art, who continue to create new work, and who are at a critical juncture in their practice. Each recipient receives an unrestricted grant of $25,000.

Forever Her Fist; with three small words, Chitra Ganesh catapults us into a higher plane of unbridled queer desires. If we let that paean to feminine penetration sink in, we may well find ourselves floating in the company of her triple-armed sky goddess.