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2010
Love Letters and Other Necessary Fictions, Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai, India
2008 Cost of Living, International Resource Center Gallery, Queens Public Library
2007 Longing for Elsewhere Safari Gardens Gallery, Fajara, The Gambia, solo exhibition
2007 Engendered Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL, solo exhibition (2007)

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Artist's Profile


Swati Khurana (b. 1975)

Swati’s work mines personal narratives and explores immigrant issues with a focus
on gender, popular culture and the seductive promises made by rituals.

She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in history from Columbia University with a focus
in south Asian post-colonial studies. From New York University, she received an M.A. in
studio Art and Art Criticism; there, she also attended an intensive studio program at
Instituro Universario Di Architettura in Venice, Italy.

Khurana has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna
Beach (FL), Henry Street settlement (NYC), and David & Julia White Colony (Costa Rica).

She has received a New visions Grant and was accepted in to the Bronx Museum’s
Artist-in-the-Marketplace Program.

In NYC, the Bronx Museum, Queens Museum, Bose Pacia, Centre for Book Arts, American Museum
of Natural History, Exit Art and Momenta Art & Longwood Arts project have shown her work.
She has also exhibited at Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami), School of Art Institute (Chicago),
ArtShare (L.A.), AquaSpace (Savannah), Asian Arts (Philadelphia), Fotofest (Houston) and
Hamilton Artists (Ontario).

Internationally, she has shown at Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo (San Jose, Costa Rica),
Gallery Aab (Brescia, Italy), Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (Venice, Italy),
Himal’s Film South Asia (Kathmandu, Nepal), Habitat Centre (New Delhi, India) and
Kala Ghoda (Mumbai, India).

Swati Khurana was born in India and raised in New York, where she currently lives and works.



     
 
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