Chitra Ganesh

In a creative career that now spans almost three decades, Chitra Ganesh (b. Brooklyn, New York, US, 1975; lives and works inBrooklyn, New York, US) has built an extensive oeuvre that, anchored in drawingand painting, branches out in manifold ways into media ranging from animation, mural,collage, and sculpture to computer-generated imagery and video. With enormouspassion for detail, Ganesh combines a multifaceted palette of culturalinfluences with the visual idiom of vintage comics, Bollywood posters, andvideogames. Her practice lets her delve into narratives and images drawn fromthe cultural history of South Asia without veering into nostalgia. Her worksinstead challenge conventions of gender, sexuality, and power by puttingcomplex mythological narratives around iconic female protagonists front andcenter. The monograph is primarily dedicated to Ganesh's work 2013–2023, while including images and context from 1996 to the present. Withessays by Natasha Bissonauth, Gayatri Gopinath, Saisha Grayson, Tausif Noor,Svati Shah, and Ksenia Soboleva.