Please join us! The 2026 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture featuring artist Chitra Ganesh in conversation with Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026
6:00 p.m. | Portland Museum of Art | 7 Congress Square, Portland

Where existing norms and orientation points become obsolete arise new possibilities for storytelling. With this thought in mind, the group exhibition She, Who Dwells in the Shadows, curated by Kinnari Saraiya, brings together six artistic positions that seek the potential of darkness and obscurity.

Spectrosynthesis Seoul is an exhibition that offers a multilayered perspective on LGBTQ+ artists and artists exploring queerness in their work who have led avant-garde practices across temporal, spatial, and institutional boundaries.

KNMA for the first time presents a library-like space celebrating the fragility, tactility, and rebellious spirit of zines and comics, where visitors can touch, read, and even make their own copies. 

The exhibition and publication project Utopia. The Right to Hope, initiated by the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, aims to give a sign of hope and confidence that a better and fairer life can be achieved for everyone on this planet. The aim is not to create a new grand design for the world, but rather to focus on a variety of micro-utopias that, when combined, can achieve something positive.

Gallery Wendi Norris presents Tiger in the Looking Glass, an exhibition of new paintings by Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975 Brooklyn, New York, USA). One of the most preeminent contemporary artists of her generation, Ganesh opens her fifth solo presentation with the gallery. In this body of work, Ganesh expands upon an iconography that she has been building for more than twenty years, taking it in a lush direction of otherworldly, surreal landscapes. The exhibition takes its title from the motifs and Surrealist themes that weave through Ganesh’s work, such as hybridity, portals and mirrors, double consciousness, multiverses, and femme shapeshifters

We are delighted to announce that Chitra’s first monograph, Chitra Ganesh, is now on sale. Published by DISTANZ, the book is primarily dedicated to Ganesh’s work 2013–2023, while including images and context from 1996 to the present.

Hales is delighted to announce Away From the Watcher, Chitra Ganesh's second solo exhibition with the gallery. In the first exhibition dedicated to Ganesh's print works, the show brings together linoleum cuts, digital prints, and screen prints made over the past decade, highlighting this integral strand of her practice.

Ganesh’s contribution features a reworking of her 2020 QUEERPOWER! installation at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York, a city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, rendered on translucent fabric panels.

The Fondation Carmignac is presenting The lnfinite Woman exhibition at Villa Carmignac, on the island of Porquerolles off the coast of Hyères (Var), curated by Alona Pardo.

This exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian diasporas of the UK, USA and Canada.

“Botany of Desire” explores how certain plants have evolved to gratify human desires - specifically for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control and healing - and, in turn, how plant species have used man to meet their own benefit. Given that plants are immobile, they have learned to be the ultimate chemist in order to further their reproduction. The exhibition draws its inspiration from a book of the same title by Michael Pollan, which questions the idea that people are the sole drivers of domestication. Weaving threads from personal histories, the artists share critical representations of flora and vegetation intertwined with vulnerable human experiences.

For the 2023 edition of Frieze London, Hales is delighted to present a selection of works by artists  Andrew Bick, Tessa Boffin, Martyn Cross,  Chitra Ganesh,  Haroun Hayward,  John Hoyland,  Hew Locke,  Tuli Mekondjo,  Lucy Stein,  Kay WalkingStick, Gray Wielebinski  and  Laetitia Yhap.

Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future is now on view at the Clifford Gallery at Colgate University, NY, USA, through 12 November 2023.

The Whitney will honor the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies with a full day of activities for all ages on Gansevoort Street, including hands-on artmaking, collaborative coloring projects inspired by artist Chitra Ganesh, Queer History Walking Tours of the Meatpacking District, giveaways, and a special dance performance and workshop by dance collective Bob’s Dance Shop.

SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine features the powerful work of Indigenous artists responding to the “American Indian Wars” alongside artists from the Greater Middle East and its diasporas reacting to the “Global War on Terror.” The exhibition explores how these works complicate and relate to the creative practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) veterans whose experiences profoundly challenge the dominant histories of these long wars.

With Orchid Meditations, Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh returns to Gallery Espace and New Delhi after a decade.

Chitra Ganesh draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction, queer theory, comics, Surrealism, Bollywood posters, and video games, to inform her illustrations and drawings.

Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III circles around the core notion of “queer mythologies” and delves into modern and contemporary mythologies along with practices of the body, by gathering a diverse range of artistic idioms related to LGBTQ+ perspectives from over 60 artists from Asia and its diasporas.