Chitra Ganesh

Chitra Ganesh’s exuberant multimedia practice focuses on marginalized figures and narratives from art, history, and literature; in particular, the artist explores the roles and expectations placed on women. Female archetypes—from goddesses to witches—fill her paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, and comic books. Ganesh mines an array of influences in her work, from contemporary social theory to various world mythologies and Bollywood posters. She filters these influences through an aesthetic that combines text and bold, graphic imagery. Ganesh’s work comments on myth, feminism, sex, and erased colonial histories. It belongs in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.