Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that split a nation. For 15 years, she has made artworks based on the partition of British India into an independent India and Pakistan in 1947, as well as the bloody nationalist conflict that followed in East Pakistan, which cleaved off to become Bangladesh in 1971."
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
Current + Recent Exhibitions
Ebb/Flow
Silent Waters, a part of Pritika Chowdhry's Partition Anti-Memorial Project is on exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis from December 17, 2022 - May 24, 2027.
Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories (Part 2)
Solo exhibition of Pritika Chowdhry's new works in the Partition Anti-Memorial Project at The Art Center of Highland Park.
Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories
Solo retrospective of Pritika Chowdhry's Partition Anti-Memorial Project at the South Asia Institute of Chicago.
Partition in the Modern World: Transdiasporic Art Practices
This exhibition juxtaposes ten different geopolitical partitions and is the outcome of a year-long curatorial fellowship at the Evanston Art Center (EAC), curated by Curatorial Fellow, Pritika Chowdhry.