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South Asian American Masculinities & Popular Culture in the Age of Trump
Swati Khurana is a contemporary artist. She was born in New Delhi, India in 1975. She emigrated to New York in 1977, where she lives and works. She graduated from Poughkeespie Day School in 1993. She holds a B.A. in History from Columbia University and M.A. in Studio Art & Art Criticism from New York University.
Contents
- South Asian American Masculinities Popular Culture in the Age of Trump
- Work
- Exhibitions
- Solo shows
- References
Work
Khurana works in embroidery, collage, drawing, and installation, exploring gender and rituals that are particular to Indian immigrant culture. Her videos have been described "delightful, wry" in The New York Times and "dreamy" in Time Out New York.
In the "Texting Scrolls" project, Khurana transcribes viewers' text messages into handmade scrolls. "Texting Scrolls" has been part of the Art in Odd Places festival, Kriti Festival at University of Illinois-Chicago, "A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It" exhibition at the Queens Museum, Dumbo Arts Festival., and Brooklyn Museum. For Parijat Desai Dance Company, Khurana co-designed projections for 'Songs to Live For' with Neeraj Churi, staged at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, where "eternally calm and august figures—exalted Mughal royalty—watch in painted silence as the dancers bring to life scenes of the age-old story of love and devotion."
In the essay "Seducing Structures and Stitches: Reappropriating Love, Desire and the Image," Uzma Rizvi wrote that "the stitched canvases of the 'Bridal Trousseau' series are both retro-feminist and very contemporary. Needlework, in itself, is a heavy referent within a postcolonial feminist context. These canvases are literally stitched images of the self."
Exhibitions
Khurana has exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Exit Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw). About her solo exhibition at Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai, she was "touted as one of the most promising young Indian artists in the international contemporary art scene."