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Image of Chitra Ganesh Durham Press Screenprint Edition Architects of the Future Series City Inside Her -
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Image of Chitra Ganesh Durham Press Monotype Uniques Wolf Watcher's Dream Close Up
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Image of Chitra Ganesh Durham Press Monotype Uniques Wolf Watcher's Dream Close Up
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Image of Chitra Ganesh Durham Press Linocut Portfolio Edition Sultana's Dream Installation
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Image of Chitra Ganesh Durham Press Linocut Portfolio Edition Sultana's Dream
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Image of Chitra Ganesh Durham Press Screenprint Edition Prophecy
Chitra Ganesh has been collaborating with Durham Press since 2014, working in woodblock, screenprint, and monotype to create editions and unique works in her distinctive style. Her motifs draw inspiration from sources high and low, ranging from comic books to Hindu iconography, which she uses to challenge conventional narratives by bringing themes of femininity and power to the forefront. Ganesh’s work with Durham Press continues to explore these often untold narratives in a new medium by translating these motifs into print, telling stories of feminist utopias and imagined worlds.
Ganesh recently completed a large-scale installation piece titled Regeneration on display at New York Penn Station. The work fills the hall with imagery in Ganesh’s characteristic style, reminding those passing through to celebrate life around them. This installation was released alongside her video piece on display at Moynihan Train Hall through October 14th titled Coherence, inspired by the meditative power of breath work. Ganesh’s work was also featured in Body Freedom For Every(Body), a traveling exhibit created by Times Square Arts and Project for Empty Space that was shown in Times Square September 4-5th. The exhibition aims to celebrate and open up a dialogue around bodily autonomy, a discussion Ganesh often highlights in her own work.
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Chitra Ganesh
Editions and UniquesChitra Ganesh B. 1975, BROOKLYN, NY Ganesh has been collaborating with Durham Press since 2014, producing screenprint and relief editions as well as an extended artist’s book and portfolio, Sultana's Dream. Chitra Ganesh’s multidisciplinary practice centers on drawing and also includes paintings, murals, films, and texts. Having studied comparative literature and semiotics, she often uses narrative in her work as a way to critically address themes of gender, power, and sexuality. Her imagery is informed by mythology, surrealism, Hindu and Buddhist iconography, South Asian art history, Indian comic books, feminism, science fiction, postcolonial studies, queer theories, and more. Represented by Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, and Gallery Espace, New Delhi, Ganesh has been the subject of several individual presentations at these venues. She has also had solo shows at public institutions such as the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2020); Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York (2019); The Kitchen, New York (2018); Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2018); Times Square, New York (2018; as part of the Midnight Moments series); Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Kishoreganj (2016); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2015); Gothenburg Kunsthalle, Sweden (2012); Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg (2011); and MoMA P.S.1., New York (2009). Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Cleveland Clinic; Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India; Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Ford Foundation, New York; Gwangju Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco and Paris; Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Saatchi Collection, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. -
Chitra Ganesh | The Wolf Watcher's Dream Monoprints
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Chitra Ganesh | Sultana's Dream
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Chitra Ganesh | Architects of the Future
2014
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Durham Press is a printer and publisher of limited edition prints, multiples, and unique works. We work with a small group of artists to create work in mediums such as woodblock, screenprint, and intaglio, all available to the public directly through our website. Please contact us for more information.
