ART: Chitra Ganesh “An Eye That Cannot Cry..”

This piece, “Ganesh Melancholia”,  is contributed by visual artist Chitra Ganesh, courtesy of supportive galleries. Her images evoke tragedy situated in powerful representations of South Asian women — as moments and memories of their lives intersect with violence. Many thanks for this evocative imagery that challenge discourses around women in important ways. Please watch this rotating space for new art exploring gender and violence.

Bio: Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn based artist living and working in New York. Her drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations suggest and excavate buried narratives typically absent from official canons of history, literature, and art. Ganesh graduated from Brown University with a BA in Comparative Literature and Art-Semiotics, and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She is known for her experimental use of the comic and narrative drawing forms to communicate submerged histories and alternative articulations of femininity to a broader public. 

Ganesh’s work has been widely exhibited, at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Devi Art Foundation (New Delhi), Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), the Royal College of Art (London), and the Prince of Wales Museum (Mumbai), and Kunsthalle Exnergrasse (Norway).  She has had solo museum exhibitions at The Andy Warhol museum (Pittsburgh) and Goteborgs Konsthalle (Sweden), and her work is represented in prominent international collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Saatchi Collection (London), Burger Collection (Zurich) & Devi Art Foundation (India), amongst others.   Ganesh is the recipient numerous awards and fellowships, including a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim memorial foundation Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Upcoming solo exhibitions include a site-specific commission at the Brooklyn Museum opening in December 2014.