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Born in New Delhi, India 1975. Emigrated to New York in 1977. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
New York University, Gallatin School, M.A. in Studio Art & Art Criticism {2001}
Instituto Universario Di Architettura, Venice Italy, Summer Studio Art Program {2000}
Columbia College, Columbia University, B.A. in History {1997}
Travel and Study Grant, Jerome Foundation & Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund, St. Paul, Minnesota {2007}
BCAT/Rotunda Gallery Joint Multimedia Residency, Brooklyn NY {2007}
Emerge Program, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ {2007}
Artist-in-Residence, Kartong Village Development Committee, The Gambia {2007}
Artist-in-Residence, David and Julia White Colony, Costa Rica {2006}
Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida {2005}
Travel & Research Grant, New Visions, Mexico City & NYC {2003}
Artists in the Marketplace (A.I.M.) Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts {2002}
Artist-in-Residence, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC {2001}
Karen Siff Grant for Master’s Thesis, New York University {2001}
Scarampella Prize, Venice, Italy {2000}
“Cost of Living” International Resource Center Gallery, Queens Public Library with Chanika Svetilas {2008}
“Longing for Elsewhere” Safari Gardens Gallery, Fajara, The Gambia, solo exhibition {2007}
“Engendered” Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL, solo exhibition {2007}
“Garden of Export Delights” A/P/A Gallery, New York University, M.A. thesis solo show {2001}
“Emerge 9” Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ {2008}
“Exploding the Lotus” Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, FL {2008}
"Passage to Jersey: Women Artists of the South Asian Diaspora in our Midst" Brodsky Center Gallery Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ {2008}
"The Red Carpet Treatment" Rush Arts @ Art Basel, The Buena Vista Building, Miami {2007}
“Neo-Neo-Dada” Rush Arts, New York City {2007}
“Feminine Mystique” Jersey City Museum, NJ {2007}
“Sultana’s Dream” SAWCC’s 10th Anniversary exhibition, Exit Art, NY {2007}
“Interstice” Society for Photographic Education Exhibition, C.A.S. Gallery, University of Miami, FL. {2007}
“Photography and Contemporary Tactics” Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, NY {2007}
“Small Works” 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NYC {2007}
“States of Longing” Chashama Gallery, NYC {2007}
“Art Off the Main” Contemporary African, Caribbean & Latin American Art, Puck Building, NYC {2006}
“Groundswell Art Auction” Exit Art, NYC {2006}
“Open Studio” David & Julia White Artist Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica {2006}
“A Usable Past” Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC {2006}
“Print Zero Exchange” Old Inlet Print Co-Op, Homer, Alaska; Basil Hallward Gallery, Portland Oregon; Sev
Shoon Arts Center, Seattle Washington; Rainbow Building Gallery @ University of Miami, Coral Gables,
Florida {2006}
“The Pop Art Show 2006” The Kaufmann Arcade (A Taste of Art Gallery) NYC {2006}
“No More Drama: The Saga Continues” Center for Book Arts, NYC {2006}
“Do You Think I’m Disco” Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY {2006}
“Art Miami” Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami Convention Center, FL {2006}
“Out Castes” Art Basel, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL {2005}
“Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now” Queens Museum, NY {2005}
“Art Off the Main” Contemporary African, Caribbean & Latin American Art, Puck Building, NYC {2005}
“Corporate Bodies” Momenta Art, juror: Eric Heist & Project Diversity, Brooklyn, NY {2005}
“Love Triangles” Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, NY {2005}
“SAWCC Earthquake Silent Art Auction” Asian American Writers’ Workshop, NYC {2005}
“Benefit 2005” White Columns, NYC and Momenta Art, Brooklyn NY {2005}
“t(here)” Aquaspace, Savannah, Georgia {2005}
“Singular Identities” Habitat Centre, Avantika Bawa, New Delhi, India {2004}
“Newark Reads Poetry” Rutgers University at Newark, New Jersey {2004}
“Groundswell Art Auction” White Columns, NYC {2004}
“Reflections” Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY {2003}
“Trilogies” Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica {2002}
“Artists in the Marketplace” Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum {2002}
“Colors of the Bindu” Fotofest at Mother Dog Studios, Houston, TX {2002}
"Kala Ghoda" Art Festival, video program, Mumbai, India {2002}
“Crossing the Line” Queens Museum of Art, NY {2001}
“il chiaroscuro” Gallery Aab, Brescia, Italy {2001}
“Shaken & Stirred” BosePacia Modern, New York City {2001}
“Mediums” Atomic Kitchen Design, Chicago {2001}
“Works in Progress” Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, Italy {2000}
“Sweet Beguile” Shiva Gallery, Joseph Papp Public Theater, NYC {2000}
“(Un)Suitable Girls” Paisley Gallery, NYC {2000}
Technological Revolutions” Hamilton Artists, Ontario, Canada {1999}
“Birth Mark” exhibition of Diasporadics Festival, Brecht Forum, NYC {1999}
“Dislocated Bodies: SAWCC's 10th Anniversary Video Program” 3rd I Program, Exit Art, NYC {2007}
“Transfixed: New York South Asian/Arab American Film Festival” Alwan Center for the Arts, NYC {2007}
“Venturous Video Vanguard Festival”: Lancaster Museum of Art and Contemporary Modern Art Projects, LA County, CA; Altered Esthetics gallery, Minneapolis MN {2007}
“Her Shorts 2007 ” Women’s International Video Festival, Tucson, AZ {2007}
“Close Connections” Rijksakadamie, Art Amsterdam, The Netherlands {2006}
Malaprops Book Store Asheville, NC {2006}
InsideOut Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL {2005}
t(here) Aquaspace, Savannah, Georgia {2005}
Off the Page Traveling Installation with Witness Tree & Lower Manhattan Cultural Council {2003}
Friends of Siddharta Film Festival New Delhi, India {2002}
AsianCinevision Asia Society, NYC {2002}
Fledgling Film Festival Barnet, Vermont {2002}
Atlanta Film Festival Atlanta GA {2001}
Asian American Showcase The School of the Art Institute, Chicago {2001}
ArtWallah Art Share, Los Angeles {2001}
Coded Bodies Exit Art, NYC {2000}
Not Still Art Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY {2000}
Close-up: Asian Pacific America American Museum of Natural History, NYC {2000}
ArtWallah Art Share, Los Angeles {2000}
Olakh Feminist Film Festival Baroda, India {1999}
Himal International Film & Video Festival Kathmandu, Nepal {1999}
Darpana Academy Ahemdabad, India {1999}
CelebrAsians Asian-American Multi-Arts Festival, Chicago {1999}
Videocapes Asian Cinevision Video Festival, NYC {1999}
Saheli Film Festival Austin, Texas {1999}
First International Transgender Film & Video Festival, London {1998}
New Festival: International Gay and Lesbian Film & Video Festival, NYC {1997}
Chingari VideoFest, Madison, Wisconsin {1997}
Visual Communications Asian-American Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA {1997}
Rutgers University—presentation on “Passage to Jersey” Artists panel {2008}
Jersey City Museum—presentation on “Feminine Mystique” Artists panel {2008}
Rush Arts—presentation on “NeoNeoDada” Artists panel {2007}
Exit Art—presentation on “Sultana’s Dream” Artists panel {2007}
University of The Gambia—visiting artist lecture {2007}
New York University, NYC—guest speaker in “South Asian Popular Culture” class {2007}
Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL—gallery talk with solo exhibition {2007}
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective—“slide slam” presentation {2007}
Malaprops Bookstore, Asheville, NC—screening and artist lecture {2006}
Diaspora Artists Biennale, Popop Studios, Nassau, Bahamas—artist presentation {2006}
Louis Brandeis High School, NYC—visiting artist talk {2005}
Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL—gallery talk with Art Basel exhibition {2005}
Queens Museum of the Arts—presentation with museum visitors {2005}
Manhattan International High School, NYC—panel discussion presentation {2004}
Yale University, CT—visiting artist lecture {2002}
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC—panel discussion presentation {2001}
New York University, NY—panel discussion presentation {2001}
Vassar College, NY—visiting artist lecture {2001}
Princeton University, NJ—visiting artist lecture {2001}
Columbia University, NY—visiting artist lecture {2001}
Beijing 2000 Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NY—panel discussion presentation {2000}
Harvard University, MA—visiting artist lecture {2000}
Third World Newsreel, NYC—panel discussion presentation {2000}
Village Community School, NYC—guest speaker in “Multimedia Projects” class {2000}
Asian American Writers’ Workshop, NYC—guest speaker in “CreateNow” writing workshop {1999}
Columbia University, NYC—screening and artist lecture {1998}
Emory University, GA—conference panel discussion presentation, screening and lecture {1998}
Bryn Mawr College, PA—screening and artist lecture {1998}
Oberlin College, OH—screening and artist lecture {1997}
University of Pennsylvania, PA—conference panel presentation, screening and lecture {1998}
Columbia University. NYC— screening and lecture {1996}
CUNY Queens College, NYC—screening and lecture {1996}
*Dan Bischoff, Star-Ledger: “Jersey City Exhibit Showcases 'Thoughtful' Reaction to Feminism” {2007}
*Lavina Melwani, Little India: “The Unsuitable Girls Grow Up” {2007}
*Nuit Banai Time Out New York “Review: ‘Neo, Neo-Dada” {2007}
*Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, The Feminine Mystique: Contemporary Artists Respond “The Problem that Had No Name”
catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*Nicole Sealey “Neo-Neo Dada” Rush Arts catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*Jaishri Abichandani Sultana’s Dream “A Tribe of Muses” catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*The Daily Observor: Buya Jammeh, “16 Receive Digital Video Training” {2007}
*Asian American Press: “Jerome Travel and Study Awards” {2007}
*Maxwell Heller, Brooklyn Rail: “TRACKS: Sultana’s Dream and the SAWCC” {2007}
*Michelle Weinberg, The SunPost: “Art Review: The Bollywood Gaze” {2007}
*Edwin Ramoran, “Love Drunk” First Comes Love catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*Dr. Rosamond S. King, “You Can’t Have One without the Other” Engendered catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*Gallery Guide Southeast and www.galleryguide.com “Diaspora Vibe Gallery” {2007}
*Beth Hillman, Austin360.com “Artists Turn World's Photos into Their Collection” {2007}
*Beth Hillman, Denver Post: “An Internetwork for Artists Join Hands” {2007}
*Edwin Ramoran “Love Drunk” First Comes Love catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*Dr. Rosamond S. King “You Can’t Have One without the Other” Engendered catalogue exhibition essay {2007}
*States of Longing exhibition catalogue {2007}
*AsiaPacificForum “Talking Shop: Conversations with Feminist Asian-American Artists” WBAI 99.5 FM &
http://www.asiapacificforum.org/show-detail.php?show_id=63 {2007}
*Holland Cotter, The New York Times: “Art in Review; No More Drama: The Saga Continues” {2006}
*Holland Cotter, The New York Times: “Art in Review; Do You Think I’m Disco” {2006}
*Dean Daderko, Gay City News: “A Mirrorball to Libertation” {2006}
*Erica Wells, The Bahama Journal: “Tapping into the Country’s Artistic Intellectual Resources” {2006}
*Swati Khurana, Drainmag.com: “Play” {2006}
*Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald: “Art Basel: Art on the Cultural Divide” {2005}
*Marissa D. Clarke, “Snow-made Holiday in Miami Beach” MiamiHerald.com {2005}
*Rosie-Gordon Wallace, “Outcastes” Diaspora Vibe Gallery catalogue essay {2005}
*Jaishri Abichandani & Prerana Reddy, “Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now”
Queens Museum catalogue essay {2005}
*Ronak Kapadia, Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal: “Desi Drags, Disidentifications and Activist Film…” {2005}
*Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof, artblog: “Soapy Bubbles” {2005}
*Ego Magazine (egothemag.com): “Fatal Love” {2005}
*Holland Cotter, The New York Times: “Art in Review; Artist in the Marketplace” {2002}
*Lydia Yee & Edwin Ramoran, “AIM 22” Bronx Museum exhibition catalogue {2002}
*Franklin Sirmans, “Henry Street Settlement Open Studio” exhibition essay {2002}
*Shaista Hussain, Bibi Magazine: “Colors of the Bindu” {2002}
*Rolando Barahona-Sotela, Trilogias catalogue essay {2002}
*Museums of New York: “Urban Renewal” {2001}
*Fausto Lorenzi, “il chiaroscuro” Gallery Aab exhibition catalogue essay {2001}
*Sonia Chopra, Rediff.com: “My Daughter Made Me a Better Parent” {2001}
*Riccardo Petito, Il Gazzettino: “Giovani di New York Espongono a Venezia” {2000}
*Karin Miller-Lewis, Art News Magazine of India: “No Place Like Home” {2000}
*Sunaina Maira, Journal of Asian American Studies: “Henna and Hip Hop: The Politics of Cultural Production and the Work of Cultural Studies” {2000}
*Gayatri Gopinath, Journal of Homosexuality: “Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema” {2000}
*Lavina Melwani, India Today International: “The Women Speak Out” {2000}
*Neyda Martínez, “Sweet Beguile: Private and Public Performative Acts Re-imagined” exhibition curatorial essay {2000}
*Lavina Melwani, Little India: “A Space for Unsuitable Girls” {2000}
*Leela Jacinto, Art News Magazine of India: “Culture Complex” {2000}
*Sunaina Maira, Cultural Anthrolopology “Identity Dub: The Paradoxes of an Indian American Youth
Subculture” {1999}
*Chanchal Dadlani & Madhu Kaza, “Birth Mark” catalogue essay {1999}
*India in New York: “Diasporadics: A Festival” {1999}
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Board Member [1997-2001, 2007-present]
Center for Book Arts, Education Outreach Committee [2006-2007]
Prep for Prep, Volunteer Classroom Teacher [2004-present]
International High School @ Prospect Heights, Planning Committee [2003-2004]
Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx International High School Liaison [2002-2004]
Asia Society, Audience Development Advisory Committee [2000-2002]
Asian American Writer’s Workshop, CreateNow youth video workshop facilitator [1999-2001]
Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute, New York University, Events Coordinator [1997-1999]
South Asian Youth Action, Working Committee Member [1996-1998]
Art Association of Brescia, Italy
Himal Documentary Archive, Nepal
University of California, Berkeley
Kartong Village Development Committee, The Gambia
Whitman College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Columbia University
New York University
Print Zero Exchange
Private Collections
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