Portrait of Chitra Ganesh, Photo by Raul Irani.
Hales are delighted to announce that San José Museum of Art will honor Chitra Ganesh at their 2024 Gala and Auction on 21 September.
Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video, and sculpture. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Ganesh 'constantly attempts to challenge patriarchal norms and empower her female and queer subjects by constructing alternate visual narratives', while drawing on South Asian visual traditions as well as canonical and contemporary feminist and queer scholarship. Ganesh is well represented in the SJMA collection including the recently acquired work She the Question, a suite of 25 works generously donated to the Museum by Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese.
Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video, and sculpture. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Ganesh 'constantly attempts to challenge patriarchal norms and empower her female and queer subjects by constructing alternate visual narratives', while drawing on South Asian visual traditions as well as canonical and contemporary feminist and queer scholarship. Ganesh is well represented in the SJMA collection including the recently acquired work She the Question, a suite of 25 works generously donated to the Museum by Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese.
Chitra Ganesh
San José Museum of Art
110 S Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
United States
September 12, 2024
