Pritika Chowdhry Explained

Pritika Chowdhry is an Indian-born American artist, curator, and writer.^{[2] [3]} She is known for her work in the socio-political domain.^{[4] [5]}

Pritika is the founder of Partition Anti-Memorial Project and Counter-Memory Project.^{[6] [7]}

Biography

Born in India, Pritika grew up in New Delhi.^{[8] [9]} In 1999, she moved to the United States.^[10]

Pritika attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Art.^[11] She continued her study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio arts and a Master of Arts (MA) in Visual Culture and Gender studies.^[12]

Between 2009 and 2011, she was a visiting professor and taught at Macalester College and College of Visual Arts.^{[10] [12]}

In 2007, she founded the Partition Anti-Memorial Project.^[12] The project consists of nine sub-projects focusing on historical events, including the 1947 Partition of India, 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, and the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.^{[13] [14]} Her work has been exhibited at notable museums and arts galleries such as Queens Museum, Weisman Art Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Sanskriti Museum & Art Gallery, and Islip Art Museum.^{[12] [15]}

Pritika is the current senior curator at the South Asia Institute and is a member of the board of the Woman Made Gallery, Chicago.^{[16] [17]}

Awards and recognition

• 2007: David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship^[18]
• 2011: Performing and creative arts fellowship by American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship^[19]

Selected exhibitions

• Local Time, Weisman Art Museum, 2015^[12]
• Empty Time, Minnesota Museum of American Art, 2014^[20]
• Remembering the Crooked Line, Rohtas 2 Art Gallery, 2012^{[9] [11]}
• Story Time, Islip Art Museum, 2010^[12]
• Retellings, Seven Art Gallery, 2010^{[21] [22]}
• Erasing Borders, Queens Museum of Art, 2009^{[12] [23]}
• The Master's Tongues, Woman Made Gallery, 2009^[24]

Permanent collections

• American Swedish Institute^[7]
• Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art^[25]
• Weisman Art Museum^[7]

Bibliography

• Chowdhry, Pritika (2007). Visceral Mappings: Transdiasporic Art Practices

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chicago artist hopes King Charles can do what his mother did not. September 10, 2022. Chicago Sun-Times.
2. Web site: Artist Pritika Chowdhry is bringing stories of India's partition to the global stage. April 1, 2022. Abigail . Banerji. Hindustan Times.
3. Web site: 'Anti-memorials' honor Indian Partition's unseen victims, 75 years on. Jacqui Palumbo. CNN.
4. Web site: Artist hopes to spark conversations about traumatic world events . 5 October 2021 . Ash-har . Quraishi . WGBA-TV.
5. Web site: A pop icon: How Andy Warhol continues to remain in the news . Vaishali . Dar . 17 April 2022. .
6. What the Nation Re-members: Resisting Victim Nationalism in Partition Memorial Project . 10.1080/2373566X.2015.1103196 . 2015 . Micieli-Voutsinas . Jacque . GeoHumanities . 1 . 2 . 398–413 . 147050563 .
7. Web site: Memory Leaks Interview with Pritika Chowdhry and Francesca Ramsay . Francesca . Ramsay . 5 October 2021 .
8. Web site: Reimagining Nirbhaya: An artist's ode to December 16 victim . 16 December 2021 . Jain . Siddhi . Hindustan Times.
9. Web site: Of kites, kurties and cartography. Quddus . Mirza. 8 January 2012 . The News International.
10. Web site: 'Karmic (Dis)Continuities' on display at Banfill . 23 April 2013.
11. Web site: Artworks remember the crooked line. January 3, 2012. DAWN.
12. Web site: Artist Pritika Chowdhry's 'anti-memorials' illustrate what is excluded from collective memories of Partition . 18 April 2022 . Jayashree . Narayanan. Indian Express.
13. Web site: The Partition Memorial Project by Pritika Chowdhry. Vittoria . Benzine.
14. Web site: She confronts history. Nidhi . Lodaya . 27 March 2022 . Mid-Day.
15. Web site: Installations . 22 May 2022.
16. Web site: Chicago-Based artist "anti-memorializes" the partition of India. September 26, 2022.
17. Web site: About . 22 May 2022.
18. Web site: Awards in the Creative Arts – Division of the Arts – UW–Madison . artsdivision.wisc.edu . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022442/https://artsdivision.wisc.edu/programs/arts-awards/ . 18 April 2020 . dead.
19. Web site: 2011 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellows. 22 May 2022.
20. Web site: This week in Saint Paul. Clarence. White. 10 March 2014.
21. Web site: Border Line. September 21, 2010. Vandana . Kalra . Indian Express.
22. Web site: The Sunday Tribune – Spectrum. Saibal . Chatterjee . October 10, 2010. Tribune India.
23. Web site: Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the diaspora 2009. 22 May 2022.
24. Web site: Pritika Chowdhry | Woman Made Gallery . 22 May 2022 .
25. Web site: About Pritika Chowdhry . 22 May 2022.