Jaishri Abichandani
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Born: Bombay India
Lives: Brooklyn USA
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2005 Masters in Visual Arts. Goldsmiths College, University of London UK
2003 Post Graduate Diploma Visual Arts. Goldsmiths College, University of London UK
1991 Bachelor of Arts. Queens College, City University of New York USA
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2008 'Reconciliations' Gallery Sumukha. Bangalore and Chennai, India
'Bijli: Heart of a Drag Queen' Kran Film Collective Space Brussels, Belgium
2007 'Reconciliations' Queens Museum of Art. New York, USA
'Signs of the Times' Williams College. Massachusetts USA
2004 ‘The Enchanted Life of…” Nature Morte Gallery. New Delhi, India
2002 ‘Mind’s Desire’ Gallery Chemould. Mumbai, India
‘Mind’s Desire’ NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Institute Gallery. New York, USA
‘Under Western Skies’ Castle of Good Hope. Capetown, South Africa
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2009
'Anomalies' Rossi and Rossi London, UK
"The Empire Strikes Back' Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
'Artists in Exile' Arario Gallery, New York City, USA
'Re- Imagining Asia' New Art Gallery Walsall. Walsall, UK
'Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs' Yale School of Art. Connecticut, USA
'Indian Popular Culture, and beyond: The Untold(the rise of) Schisms' Sala Alcalá Madrid, Spain
2008
'Re Imagining Asia' House of World Cultures. Berlin, Germany
'The Tea Pavillion' Third Guangzhou Triennial. Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangzhou, China
'Everywhere is War (and Rumors of War)' Bodhi Art. Mumbai, India
'Korea International Art Fair' Avanthay Contemporary. Seoul, Korea
'Stories We Tell' NYSAFF. Art in General. New York City, USA
'Global Honking Ground' Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco, USA
'The B Sides' Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art. New Jersey, USA
'Emerging Discourse…of the Diaspora' Bodhi Art. New York City, USA
'Declaration of Immigration' National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago. Illinois, USA
'Fire Walkers' Stephen Stux Gallery. New York City, USA
'Exploding the Lotus' Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood. Florida, USA
'Recent Acquisions to Momenta Art's Video Library' Momenta Art Gallery. New York City,USA
'Dirty Jewels' Gallery Espace. Delhi, India
'Critical Studio' Macy Gallery, Columbia University. New York City,USA
'A Wrinkle in Time' Rotunda Gallery. New York City, USA
'Asian Contemporary Art Fair' White Box Bowery Gallery. New York City, USA
2007
'Emergency Room' P.S.1/ MOMA. New York City. USA
'Hobby Horse' Avanthay Contemporary. Zurich, Switzerland
'Arte Nuevo Interactiva 07' Galleria del Teatro Peon Contreras. Merida, Mexico
'Photoimagen 07' French Embassy Gallery. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
‘As if I had seen it with my own eyes and said it with my own voice’ Impakt Festival Utrecht, Netherlands
'Femme Fantastique' Volitant Gallery. Austin. TX, USA
'Enfoco New Works 10th Anniversary Exhibition' Longwood Art Gallery. New York City. USA
'Transfixed' New York South Asian & Arab Film Festival. Alwan for the Arts. New York City. USA
'Momenta Art Auction 2007' Momenta Art Gallery and White Columns Gallery. New York City. USA
'Sultana's Dream' Exit Art. New York City USA
2006
'Deuces ex Machina’ Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK
‘Dangling between the real thing and the sign in the window”
Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, New York USA
'Believe' Rush Arts Gallery. New York City. USA
'Wild Girls' Exit Art. New York, USA
'Deviant Bodies' CEPA Gallery. Buffalo, New York. USA
'Momenta Art Auction 2006' Momenta Art Gallery and
White Columns Gallery. New York. USA
'The Love Show’ Hans Weiss New Space Art Gallery. Connecticut, USA
‘60 Seconds of Play’ Saltworks Gallery &
Forum Gallery of Cranbrook Academy of Arts. Georgia, USA
‘Monitor 2: Contemporary South Asian Film and Video’
National Film Board of Canada. Toronto, Canada
‘Images Film and Video Festival’ Toronto, Canada
2005
‘Post Graduate Exhibition’ Goldsmiths College. London, U.K
‘Brooklyn Shakers’ Wooster Arts Space. New York, USA
2004
‘The Crystal Land’ Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art. New Jersey. USA
‘Coming Soon..’ Siskil Film Center. Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, USA
'Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art’ William Benton Museum of Art.
University of Connecticut. Connecticut, USA
‘Only Skin Deep: A National Survey’ International Center for Photography. New York, USA
‘BQE’ White Box Gallery. New York, USA
2003
‘Post Graduate Degree Exhibition’ Goldsmiths College. London, U.K
‘Through Customs’ Bose Pacia Modern Gallery. New York, USA
2002
‘Queens International’ Queens Museum of Art. New York, USA
‘Aar Paar’ Public Art exhibit in Mumbai & Karachi
‘Mango’ Talwar Gallery. New York, USA
‘Borderless Terrain’s’ India Habitat Center. New Delhi, India.
2001
‘Crossing the Line’ Queens Museum of Art. New York, USA
‘The Rebellion of Space’, DUMBO Arts Center. New York, USA
‘Enfoco New Works 2001’ Bronx River Arts Center. New York, USA
‘Under the Western Sky’ National Center for Performing Arts. Mumbai, India.
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Selected Bibliography:
Adajania, Nancy. Sky Floating Islands. Art News Magazine of India.(Apr 2001) Vol. 6 Issue 2, Mumbai, India
Altaf, Sasha, Inscriptions of the Feminine International Gallerie, Vol 8, Issue 2, (2002) Mumbai, India.
Ansari Saniya NR Eyes Half hour TV program on Zee News broadcast internationally. (2001)
Cotter, Holland. Mango. The New York Times Art in Review. (19th July, 2002) New York, USA
Finnerty, Amy South Asia as Ethnic Foreground, Artistic Background. Wall Street Journal (22nd March 2005)
New York, USA
Genoccio, Benjamin Images on a Transcultural Highway New York Times Art in Review (12th Dec 2004)
New Jersey, USA
Johnson, Ken. A Pluralistic Exhibition in the Plural Borough. The New York Times (23 Aug 2002) New York, USA
Kerr, Merrily. Queens International Flash Art (Nov-Dec 2002) USA
Maddox, Georgina. Navigating Spaces. Indian Express. (13 Feb 2002) Mumbai, India
Melwani, Lavina. Celebrating Similarities. Newsday. (9 Aug 2002) New York, USA
Melwani, Lavina. Wishing Tree. India Today. (27 Aug 2001) North American Edition. USA
Reddy, Prerana Unsuitable Girls 30 min documentary on the artist. (2000) New York USA
Schwendener, Martha Art From Everywhere, All from Queens New York Times (15 Dec 2006) New York, USA
Staines, Judith. Mumbai Mix. (a.n) magazine for artists. (June 2002) U.K
Sudhakar, A. Mandalas- A Global Take. Art News Magazine of India. (March 2002) Vol. 7 Issue 1.
Williamson, Sue. Eye Catching Moments in the Month of Photography. www.arthrob.co.za (2002) Capetown, South Africa
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Awards & Honors
2006 Urban Artist's Initiative. New York City. USA
2002 Invited Artist, 2nd Biennial Capetown Month of Photography. Capetown South Africa
2000 En Foco 2000 New Works Photography Award. New York City. USA
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97- Present
Founder /Executive Director, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, New York City
Envisioned and founded the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (www.sawcc.org), dedicated to the advancement, visibility and development of established and emerging South Asian artists with a current membership of 1100 women in New York City and London.
09 Artist/ Curatorial Consultant "Artists in Exile" Arario Gallery, New York, USA
08-09 Guest Artist/ Curator "Anomalies" Rossi and Rossi Gallery London, UK
07 Artist/ Curatorial Consultant "Fire Walkers" Stux Gallery, New York, USA
07-08 Guest Artist /Curator, "Exploding the Lotus" Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida.
05- 06 Director of Public Projects Queens Museum of Art. Flushing, New York
Duties consist of envisioning projects for public participation, curating public art projects, exhibitions and performances. Curated biannual exhibition entitled “Queens International 2006: Everything All At Once” with 54 artists.
04-05 Public Programs Consultant/ Founder SAWCC London. Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London. UK
Initiated SAWCC London to facilitate networks, generate dialogue and promote the work of Asian women artists. Provided an emerging arts organization consultation on public, events, programs and audience development.
03-04 Director of Public Events. Queens Museum of Art. Flushing, New York
Duties included initiating and developing a vision for the department including community and audience development. Executed new festivals, programs and series. Curated Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now with 29 artists. Wrote catalogue essay.
Selected Panels & Workshops
2007 New School University. New York City
Pratt University. New York City.
College Art Association. New York City
2006 Cornell University. Ithaca New York
Rubin Museum of Art New York City
2005 Asia Society, New York City.
Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London, UK.
2004 New School University, New York City.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City.
2003 Barnard College, New York City.
2002 International Center for Photography, New York City.
New York University APA Studies Institute, New York City.
2001 Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York City.
National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India.
2000 CUNY Graduate Center, New York City.
Children’s Art Carnival, New York City.
1999 Brown University, Providence,Rhode.Island.
1998 Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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2006 Sristi Tandem Books, New York USA
Queens International 2006: Everything All At Once. Queens Museum of Art. New York City USA
(catalogue essay)
2005 Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now. Qeens Museum of Art. New York City USA
(catalogue essay)
2004 Adhnarishwara: The Androgene Probing the Gender Within. Dr. Alka Pande. Rupa & Co. India
International Gallerie Vol 7 No 1. Mumbai, India
2003 Catamaran South Asian American Writing. Vol1 No 1. Ma, USA
2001 International Gallerie Vol 4 No 1. Mumbai, India
1998 A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America
Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, USA
1997 Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America. Asian American Writers Workshop. USA
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