Chintia Kirana Explained

Chintia Kirana
Birth Name:	Chintia Agustina Kirana
Birth Date:	1987 8, df=yes
Birth Place:	Jakarta, Indonesia
Education:	Southern Illinois University (MFA)
Years Active:	2011-present
Awards:	Verdant Fund/ Andy Warhol Regranting Program Grant (2022), Alabama State Art Council Fellowship (2019), Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant(2011),
Module:	Embed: yes Field: Painting, drawing, socially engaged projects, installation

Chintia Kirana is a Chinese Indonesian born American artist. She is best known for her abstract and minimalistic work exploring identity, passage of time and spirituality. Her art practice includes curatorial projects which are socially engaged in the community arts.^[1]

Biography

Kirana was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. She received a bachelor's degree in painting from Auburn University Montgomery and an MFA in painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University.

She served as the art director for the 2024 Indonesian film The Architecture of Love.

Career

Kirana's projects often explore themes of collective identity which are marked by collaboration and active participation.^[2]

"I imagine my designs as multiple community groups", says Kirana.^[3]

She was a visual arts teacher at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. Currently, Kirana serves as one of the board of trustees of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.^[4]

Kirana is the founder of Expose Art, an art magazine, and ArtHouse, an artist-run arts residency. She was also a co-founder of "Montgomery Arts Projects" (MAP), an organization that fosters artistic exchange by bringing artists to Montgomery. Through MAP, Kirana has created numerous community art projects such as Inside Out Project.^[5] She participated in the Little Amal Walk With Amal US Tour project in Montgomery, Alabama^[6] as the artistic director for her project called "Some Broken Things Can Be Mended".

Exhibitions

Kirana was known for her gallery and museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia, including:

• Alabama Triennial Invitational Exhibit at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts^[7]
• Uncommon Territory Exhibit at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts^[8]
• Frequent Goodbyes at H-Space in Washington, DC^[9]
• Between Heaven and Earth at Wiregrass Museum ^[2]
• This is Me, curated by Dashboard at Kress on Dexter in Montgomery, Alabama^[10]

Media references and appearances

Kirana had a television guesting on a show called Expressions. ^[11] She is also featured in the Alabama Public Television Show called Monograph winter 2021 Edition. ^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chintia Kirana at the Wiregrass Museum of Art. June 3, 2021. Burnaway.
2. Web site: WMA Artist Interview with Chintia Kirana. Wiregrass Museum of. Art. June 4, 2020. Wiregrass Museum of Art.
3. News: Sorto . Gabrielle . October 30, 2018 . Artists seek to create sense of welcome and play on Buford Highway with BuHi Lights . Arts Atlanta.
4. Web site: 'Art connects us': Community Hero Chintia Kirana sees endless opportunity in Montgomery. Montgomery Advertiser.
5. Web site: 'This is us now': Developing Montgomery's giant portrait project and what it says about the city. Brad. Harper. Montgomery Advertiser.
6. Web site: International puppet of hope Little Amal visiting Birmingham, Montgomery & Selma this week . 2024-02-01 . Montgomery Advertiser . en-US.
7. Web site: Chintia Kirana. UAB Arts Alliance.
8. Web site: Uncommon Territory. MMFA.
9. News: 2023-04-13 . Review In the galleries: An artist's modern visions of a retro cartoon . 2024-02-01 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
10. Web site: 'Confessional': Montgomery finds a new united voice inside Kress. Brad. Harper. Montgomery Advertiser.
11. Web site: Expressions | Expressions 601 | Episode 601 | PBS. www.pbs.org.
12. Web site: Winter 2021 | Watch on Alabama Public Television.