Index of the Disappeared at Museum of the City of New York
City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space looks under the surface of New York’s image as a secular city and maps the complex and often surprising relationships that connect religion to public space.
Portrait of the Artist as a Unicorn included in We Fancy at the Art Students League of New York
Sultana’s Dream featured in ‘Printmaking in the 21st century’ at the Detroit Institute of Art'
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition that celebrates the range and ingenuity of artwork by contemporary printmakers.
Astral Dance opens at Contemporary Calgary
Contemporary Calgary is pleased to present Astral Dance, the first solo exhibition of works by Chitra Ganesh in Canada, and a significant survey of her practice spanning more than twenty years.
Sultana’s Dream in ‘Art & Design since 1900’ at RISD Museum
Drawing together works on paper, costume and textiles, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts and design, the installation reflects the interconnectedness of the disciplines RISD teaches and the cross pollination among art forms and media that can influence how artists work.
Sultana’s Dream and Tales of Amnesia featured in Pop South Asia at Sharjah Art Foundation
Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular is one of the first major exhibitions to provide a substantial survey of modern and contemporary art from South Asia engaging with popular culture. Spanning works from the mid-twentieth century to the present, the exhibition will showcase artists addressing complex issues facing the self and society through irony, play and humour.
New mural ‘Resurgence’ installed in La Jolla, CA
Murals of La Jolla is pleased to present Resurgence, a site-responsive mural by Chitra Ganesh and the artist’s first large-scale public work on the West Coast.
Multiverse Dreaming on show in ‘Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood’, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Los Angeles, July 7 -October 2, 2022
This ArtCenter College of Design exhibition represents a wide spectrum of established and emerging artists engaged in building new and experimental narratives: April Bey, Chitra Ganesh, Lezley Saar, Erica Ryan Stallones, Molly Surazhsky, Mariko Mori, Mai-Thu Perret, Marnie Weber, Saya Woolfalk and The Revolution School.
Wonder Women at Deitch Projects, May 7–June 25, 2022
Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang, presents thirty Asian American and diasporic women and non-binary artists responding to themes of wonder, self, and identity through figuration.
Chitra Ganesh at India Art Fair 2022
Renu Modi's Gallery Espace with 76 artists in its booth is one of the largest white cube spaces at the India Art Fair 2022. Amongst the suite of works the Brooklyn-based Chitra Ganesh's eclectic array of surrealist quirky creations spanning comics and reel and real life.
‘A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask’ in Public Art Dialogue
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.
Chitra Ganesh at Hawai’i Triennial 2022
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: Dreaming in Multiverse to open at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present the first solo exhibition in the Midwest by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Chitra Ganesh. In her multidisciplinary practice, Ganesh draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction, queer theory, comics, Surrealism, Bollywood posters and video games, combining them with her own imagery to present speculative visions of society in the past, present and future.
New animation, Before the War, on view at Seattle Art Museum
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.
Three Fates | Ambreen Butt, Chitra Ganesh, Eva Schlegel at Gallery Wendi Norris
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.
Sultana’s Dream on view at Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
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.
Nightswimmers opens November 19 at Hales Gallery, NYC
Hales is delighted to announce Nightswimmers, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of works by Chitra Ganesh.
Group show Infinitude opens at Gallery 360, Northeastern University
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?
Chitra Ganesh in New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA
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.”
Queer Power: A Time Traveling Coloring Book signing at Leslie Lohman Block Party Saturday August 28
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.