Printed Histories: 16 Years of Print Portfolios
Exit Art, December 16, 2011 - January 31, 2012, NYC
Chitra’s contribution to the 2008 print portfolio is on view as part of this commemorative final exhibition of the historic non-profit art space.
http://www.exitart.org/exhibition_programs/current_programs/printshow.html
'And the falchion passed through his neck...'
Latitude 28, 14 Dec - 15 Jan 2012, curated by Jasmine Wahi
Inspired by the work of Gentileschi, this exhibition presents a reinterpretation of strong feminist icons through the use of historical and religious iconography, including a distinctive use of ‘promiscuous imagery’ and violence. Participating artists include Hamra Abbas, Anjali Bhargava, and Samira Abassy.
http://www.latitude28.com/index.php/exhibitions/view/33/current
http://www.jasminewahi.com/
Loss for Words
Art Musings Gallery, January 15 – February 15 2012, curated by Avni Doshi, Mumbai, India
Participating artists include Nalini Malani, KK Raghava, and Sarnath Banerjee.
The exhibition Loss for Words emerges from a passage in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, where the author describes a bout of amnesia that besets an imaginary village. For Marquez, whose novel is filled with irregular chronologies, and where time and memory do not fit in exacting terms, archival instability and the idea of amnesia become subversive technique of undercutting super-structures, whether these be linguistic or
even societal. The curator worked with the artists in this show to draw out how remembering and forgetting are
implicit within their different practices.
Loss for Words PDF
http://www.artmusings.net
You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
The Kitchen, January 18 – March 11 2012, curated by Rashida Bumbray, NYC
Solo exhibition by Simone Leigh at the Kitchen, including a collaboration between Chitra Ganesh
and Simone Leigh.
http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2012/1/18/simone-leigh-you-dont-know-where-her-mouth-has-been
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/292/0/1/
India Art Summit
Gallery Espace, January 25 - January 29 2012, New Delhi, India
Ganesh will present a suite of new works on paper for the international art fair.
http://www.indiaartfair.in/exhibitors.aspx
Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art
Lehman College Contemporary Art Gallery, February 7 – May 12 2012, NYC
Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art will examine the work of approximately 30 artists influenced by a range of imagery from from Philip Guston’s iconoclastic “new figuration” to the Chicago Imagists; from pop culture iconography to underground comix and graphic novels. The exhibition will feature an online catalogue. Participating artists include Tom Otterness, Pablo Helguera, D. Dominick Lombardi, Laylah Ali, and Enrique Chagoya.
http://www.lehman.edu/gallery
Solo Exhibition
Michael Berger Gallery, January 14 - March 3 2012, Pittsburgh, PA
Chitra will exhibit a selection of newer works on paper, as well as pieces from A Delicate Line: Corpse She was Holding, a suite of screen based prints commissioned by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.
http://www.michaelbergergallery.com
Cologne Art Fair
April 13 - 17 2012, with Nature Morte Berlin, 45th Edition Cologne Art Fair, Internationaler Kunstmarkt
Ganesh will exhibit recent works along with Atul Dodiya, Diana Michener and Maurizio Vertrugno.
http://www.artcologne.com/en/artcologne/home/index.php
Otto Zoo Gallery
Opening May 20 2012, curated by Peter Nagy, Milan, Itlay
Three person exhibition exploring psychedelic imagery.
http://www.ottozoo.com
Solo Exhibition
Tilton Gallery, Opening May 2012, New York
For this exhibition Ganesh will present a new suite of works on paper exploring a range of iconographies inspired by silent cinema.
http://www.jacktiltongallery.com
Fine Arts Work Center
Spring 2012, New York
Visiting Artist Lecture. Chitra will give lecture for the Visual Arts Residency.
P28
Spring 2012, Lisbon & Porto, Portugal
Public Art initiative featuring outdoor public art billboard project in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. Chitra will present a 4 x 8 meter billboard format graphic work, on view through the spring of 2012. Participating artists include Erwin Wurm, Marcel van Eeden, Jesper Just, Bedwyr Williams, Adriana Varejão, Susana Anágua.
http://www.p-28.com/html/pag2_e.html
Solo Exhibition
Göteborgs Konsthall, June 15 – September 15, curated by Stina Edblom, Gothenburg, Sweden
Stargazers
Rossi & Rossi, June 19 - July 20 2012, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, London
Investigating the intersection of feminist and science fictional themes. Jaishri Abichandani, Mithu Sen, Anita Dube, & Chitra Ganesh.
Super Human
Central Utah Arts Center, June 8 - August 3 2012, curated by Jorge Rojas, Ephraim, UT
Featuring Chitra Ganesh, Robert Pruitt, Fay Ku, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Blanka Amezkua.
http://www.cuartcenter.org/home
Solo Exhibition
Frey Norris Gallery, Fall 2012, San Francisco
Ganesh will present a series of sculptural drawings and site-specific pieces for this solo exhibition.
http://www.cuartcenter.org/home
Art Basel Miami Beach
Tilton Gallery, December 6 - 9, 2011, New York
http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/dbl/
Art Miami, with Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern
The Art Miami Pavilion, December 5 - 9, 2011, New York
http://www.art-miami.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=10&tabindex=9&dealerid=20566&curidx=39&back=name
Museum as Hub: Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet
New Museum, October 12 - December 4, 2011, New York
This exhibition, reading room, and discussion space is inspired by the energy and politics of radical, independent Black periodicals published during the first half of the twentieth century. For this show, Jemison and Cyrus have invited Chitra and 10 other artists to create posters inspired by the American Library Association’s READ campaign as part of the installation.
http://newmuseum.org/
What About the Gaze? Queer Lens and Visibility in Art History
Cornell University, November 4 - 5, 2011, New York
Ganesh shares her work in a keynote address Cornell University’s Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Annual Graduate Symposium What About the Gaze? Queer Lens and Visibility in Art History
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/symposium_fall_2011_large.html/
Artists on Art
The Rubin Museum, October 7, 2011, New York
As part of the Rubin Museum’s Friday evening public talks series, Chitra leads an informal conversation with Curator Beth Citron on select pieces from the Museum’s collection in relation to the topic of narrative.
http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/1374/
The Word of God(ess): Chitra Ganesh's Tales of Amnesia
The Warhol Museum, July 9 – September 4 2011, Pittsburgh, PA
The Word of God(ess): Chitra Ganesh is the third exhibition in The Word of God series, which examines major religions, mythologies, and their texts through contemporary art. This exhibition at the Warhol Museum will feature two galleries of Ganesh's work across media: new comic based digital collage works, large scale drawing based installation, and a suite of prints produced in 2010 by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.
http://www.warhol.org/webcalendar/event.aspx?id=3241
FUTURE OF THE PAST: New Narratives in Art from India and Pakistan
Prince of Wales Museum, August 2011, Mumbai, India
Co-curated by Gayatri Sinha & Quddus Mirza, comprising of works by Pakistani and Indian artists whose works draws upon and reworks the miniature tradition,. Supported by Harmony Art Foundation.
The Strangling Power of Dust and Stars
Nature Morte, June 11 – July 30 2011, Berlin, Germany
Nature Morte Berlin is pleased to present “The Strangling Power of Dust and Stars”, a solo exhibition by Chitra Ganesh featuring a large-scale multimedia installation created on-site in Berlin, new drawings, works on canvas and digital collages.
http://www.naturemorte.com/exhibitions/2011-06-11_chitra-ganesh/selected-works/
“Introduction to An Index” in Radical History Review
For Radical History Review’s 25th Anniversary, Ganesh and Ghani contribute a visual essay chronicling texts
critical to their ongoing collaboration Index of the Disappeared. “Through extracts from and comments on documents that represent both productive ruptures and particular phases of our research – on special interest detention and special registration; on the laws and legal terms that enable and double disappearances in the detention system.”(Mariam Ghani)
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education
Chitra’s essay Futures for the American Classroom will be published in Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (New Museum/Routledge, 2011). The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues to provide an accessible and practical tool for teachers, while offering new art, essays, and content to account for transitions and changes in both the fields of art and education.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415960854/
Chitra awarded 2010 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters & Sculptors
The Joan Mitchell Foundation annual Painters & Sculptors Grant Program was established in 1993 to assist individual artists. The $25,000 grants are given to acknowledge nominated painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality.
http://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/index.html
Divine Horsemen
curated by Latoya Frazier for Project Space
Divine Horsemen, a two-person collaboration between Chitra Ganesh and Simone Leigh is on view at Project Space at Rutgers University. Read art historian and museologist Homa Nasab’s interview with Chitra Ganesh and Simone Leigh on her blog Museum Views
http://blogs.artinfo.com/museumviews/2011/01/06/chitra-ganesh-simone-leighs-divine-horsemen/#more-9969
http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blogs/chitra-ganesh-amp-simone-leigh
Ganesh awarded travel & research grant from Art Matters Foundation
The Art Matters Foundation will support Chitra’s trip to Tokyo and Kyoto, for six weeks in the summer of 2011, to research alternative graphic storytelling forms of erotic mange and Kamishibai.
http://www.artmattersfoundation.org/recent_grantees.html
