Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist whose installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed-media works often take historical and mythic texts as points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms. Her work has appeared in solo shows at Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, The Rubin Museum of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, Gothenburg Kunsthalle (Sweden), and elsewhere, and group shows throughout the United States, as well as in the U.K., Italy, Germany, China, Korea, India, and Bangladesh. She’s received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and her work is part of the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Devi Art Foundation (India), Kiran Nadar Museum (India), the Saatchi Collection (U.K.), and elsewhere. (updated 10/2024)