Sumukha Gallery - Artist Information

ARTIST PERSONAL

Jaishri Abichandani

Abichandani is a conceptual artist born in Bombay and currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She has exhibited her work internationally at various venues including P.S.1/MOMA, the Queens Museum of Art, and Exit Art in New York; Nature Morte, Bodhi Art & Gallery Chemould in India; House of World Cultures in Berlin, and the Guangzhou Triennial in China. She has been the recipient of the Enfoco New Works Photography Award and the Urban Artists Award, acquiring a Masters in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK in 2005. Jaishri is the Founder and Director of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, (www.sawcc.org), in New York with satellite chapters in San Francisco and London. She is also the co-curator of Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, and Queens International 2006, Everything All at Once at the Queens Museum of Art; Exploding the Lotus at the Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida and the curator of Sultana’s Dream at Exit Art. Her work is included in various international collections including Momenta Art’s Video Library, the Florian Peters Messers Collection (fpmcollection.com) and the Saatchi Collection.

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