Swati Khurana Explained

Swati Khurana is a writer and contemporary artist of Indian-American origin.[1] She was born in New Delhi, India in 1975. She emigrated to New York in 1977, where she lives and works.[2] She graduated from Poughkeepsie Day School in 1993.[3] She holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University, M.A. in Studio Art and Art Criticism from New York University, and an MFA in creative writing at Hunter College.[4]

Writing

Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times,[5] Guernica,[6] Chicago Quarterly Review,[7] Asian American Literary Review, The Offing,[8] The Rumpus,[9] The Massachusetts Review,[10] the Good Girls Marry Doctors anthology,[11] and cited as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019.[12] She has received support from New York Foundation for the Arts,[13] Vermont Studio Center,[14] and Center for Fiction[15] for her creative writing.

Visual Art

Khurana works in embroidery, collage, drawing, and installation, exploring gender and rituals that are particular to Indian immigrant culture.[16] Her videos have been described "delightful, wry" in The New York Times [17] and "dreamy" in Time Out New York.[18]

In the "Texting Scrolls" project, Khurana transcribes viewers' text messages into handmade scrolls.[19] "Texting Scrolls" has been part of the Art in Odd Places festival,[20] Kriti Festival at University of Illinois-Chicago,[21] "A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It" exhibition at the Queens Museum,[22] DUMBO Arts Festival,[23] and Brooklyn Museum.[24] 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."[25]

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."[26]

Exhibitions

Khurana has exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution,[27] Exit Art,[28] Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw),[29] and with the South Asian Women's Creative Collective.[30] 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."[31]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Vanita Reddy . Hegde . Radha Sarma . Sahoo . Ajaya Kumar . Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora . 2017 . Routledge . Diasporic Visual Cultures of Indian Fashion and Beauty.
  2. Web site: A Digital Archive Of Asian/Asian American Contemporary Art History. Asian American Arts Centre.
  3. Web site: Compass. Poughkeepsie Day School Alumni. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402142804/http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/uploaded/photos/Alumni/Class_Notes/Compass_2013_ClassNotes.pdf. 2 April 2015. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: 40 Years of Women Artists at Douglass Library. Institute for Women and Art. dead. https://archive.today/20150307201505/https://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/mary-h-dana-women-artists-series/40-years-of-women-artists-at-douglass-library/virtual-exhibit/. 2015-03-07.
  5. Web site: Khurana. Swati. 2014-10-22. Diwali, Once Hidden, Now Lit Large. 2020-06-18. Motherlode Blog. en-US.
  6. Web site: Khurana. Swati. 2016-03-15. Wife!. 2020-06-18. Guernica. en-US.
  7. Book: The South Asian American issue. Sheikh, Moazzam.. 17 February 2017 . 978-1-5429-2559-4. Evanston, IL. 1012490117.
  8. Web site: Swati Khurana. 2020-06-18. The Offing. en-US.
  9. Web site: Swati Khurana. 2020-06-18. The Rumpus.net. en.
  10. Web site: Volume 59, Issue 4 Mass Review. 2020-06-18. www.massreview.org.
  11. Book: Good Girls Marry Doctors : South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Bhattacharya, Piyali.. 2016 . 978-1-879960-92-3. San Francisco, CA. 952139129.
  12. Book: The best American essays. 2019. Solnit, Rebecca, Atwan, Robert.. October 2019 . 978-1-328-46711-9. Boston. 1119643662.
  13. Web site: NYFA.org. Introducing NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists. 2020-06-18. NYFA.org - NYFA Current.
  14. Web site: Vermont Studio Center - Fellowships. 2020-06-18. Vermont Studio Center. en-US.
  15. Web site: NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship: Past Fellows. 2020-06-18. The Center for Fiction. en-US.
  16. Web site: McGlown. Misha. Rituals, Resistance, and Assimilation. Of Note Magazine. 30 April 2014 . 7 March 2015.
  17. News: Holland. Cotter. ART IN REVIEW; 'Artist in the Marketplace'. The New York Times . 6 September 2002 . 7 March 2015.
  18. Web site: Banai. Nuit. Neo, Neo-Dada. Time Out New York. 7 March 2015.
  19. News: Lee. A.C.. Literary Festival Examines Digital Age. The New York Times . 29 November 2012 . 8 March 2015.
  20. Web site: Presenting visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces.. Art in Odd Place.
  21. Web site: Merchant. Preston. Kriti Festival Rocks South Asian Arts in Chicago. The Aerogram.
  22. Web site: Toukhy. Katherine. A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It. Jadaliyya.
  23. Web site: Photos and Video from SUBLIME at DUMBO Arts Festival. SAWCC. 31 October 2013 .
  24. Web site: The Brooklyn Museum Honors Women's History Month. Brooklyn Museum. 7 March 2015.
  25. Web site: Reviews: Parijat Desai Dance Company (PDDC). Dance Enthusiast.
  26. Rizvi. Uzma. Seducing Structures and Stitches: Reappropriating Love, Desire and the Image. Catalog Essay for Swati Khurana's Solo Show, Love Letters and Other Necessary Fictions, at Chatterjee and Lal (Mumbai), January 2010. January 2010 . Catalogue Essay.
  27. Web site: Beyond Bollywood. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. 7 March 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140917205411/http://smithsonianapa.org/beyondbollywood/2014/02/26/unexpected/. 17 September 2014. dmy-all.
  28. Web site: Heller. Maxwell. TRACKS: Sultana's Dream and the SAWCC. Brooklyn Rail. 4 September 2007 . 7 March 2015.
  29. Web site: Generation in Transition. Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki. 7 March 2015. dead. https://archive.today/20150307201414/http://www.zacheta.art.pl/en/article/view/500/generation-in-transition-new-art-from-india. 7 March 2015. dmy-all.
  30. Web site: Coded Bodies – South Asian Women's Creative Collective. 19 October 2000 . en-US. 2019-01-18.
  31. Web site: Doshi. Riddhi. Matrimonial Art: A Unique Form. DNA.

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