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| Pritika Chowdhry is an artist and curator. She is the recipient of a Vilas International Travel Fellowship, an Edith and Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, a Wisconsin Arts Board grant, a City of Madison project grant, and a Dane County Commission grant.
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| Pritika is showing her works nationally in three major exhibits in New York this year – the Erasing Borders exhibit, the Asian Contemporary Art Week exhibit, and the Engendered exhibit. The Erasing Borders exhibit is organized by the Indo-American Arts Council of New York and will travel to multiple venues including the Queens Museum in New York, the Aicon gallery in Manhattan, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and the Dowd Fine Arts Center in Syracuse, among others. In addition, Pritika is also showing her works in solo and group exhibits at the DoVA Temporary in University of Chicago, the Brodsky Center in Rutgers University, the Womandmade gallery, and the ARC gallery, both in Chicago, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in Texas, the Cambridge Art Gallery in Massachussets, teh Clatstop Gallery in Oregon, and the Class of 1925 gallery in Madison, Wisconsin.
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| Pritika explores cultural forms of memory and representations of historical trauma in her current work. Working in clay and fibers, Pritika creates sculptural installations that function as mobile memorials. Pritika has founded the Partition Memorial Project which exists as temporary art exhibits as well as a digital archive, www.partitionmemorialproject.org. Published scholarship about Pritika’s work will be forthcoming in four exhibit catalogs in 2009.
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| As a curator, Pritika has founded the Transdiaspora Project, an ongoing series of exhibits that bring together artists from diverse locations around overarching themes. The next edition in this series is titled “Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices” and will be held at the Womanmade gallery in Chicago. A digital archive of the Transdiaspora series of exhibits is available on the website, www.transdiaspora.org.
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| Born and brought up in India, Pritika moved to the U.S. in 1999. Pritika has an MFA in studio art with emphasis in Sculpture and Ceramics from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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| Please write to pritikastudio at gmail dot com to share your thoughts, suggestions, or any other feedback regarding the work on this website.
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