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Jaishri Abichandani

Born in Bombay, India, Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to New York City in 1984. She received her Master of Visual Arts Degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London and has continued to intertwine art and activism in her career, founding the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, (www.sawcc.org), in New York and London. 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, the 798 Beijing Biennial and the Guangzhou Triennial in China, Nature Morte, & Gallery Chemould in India, the IVAM in Valencia and the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Jaishri served as the Founding Director of Public Events and Projects from 2003-6 at the Queens Museum of Art where she co- curated Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now and Queens International 2006 Everything All at Once. Other international curatorial projects include Sultana's Dream, Exploding the Lotus, Artists in Exile, Anomalies and Transitional Aesthetics. Her work is included in various international collections including the Burger Collection, the Florian Peters Messers Collection (www.fpmcollection.com) and the Saatchi Collection.

I produce material and ephemeral works that examine, subvert and generate power. Primarily a political artist, my work integrates multiple aesthetics reflecting my identities as a feminist South Asian American artist to examine the implications of personal, political and spiritual choices. My dual practices of art and cultural production manifest as installations, objects, events and performances. I create a cultural context for my work by activating democratic feminist networks (www.sawcc.org) and curating exhibitions.