{{Short description|Indian-born American artist, curator, and writer}} {{Infobox artist | name = Pritika Chowdhry | birth_name = Pritika Chowdhry | birth_place = India<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/9/9/23345428/queen-elizabeth-death-king-charles-great-britain-colonial-rule-india-partition-pritika-chowdhry|title=Chicago artist hopes King Charles can do what his mother did not|date=September 10, 2022|website=Chicago Sun-Times}}</ref> | education = | alma_mater = University of Wisconsin–Madison | known_for = | notable_works = Partition Anti-Memorial Project and Counter-Memory Project | style = | movement = | elected = | patrons = | website = {{URL|https://pritikachowdhry.com}} }} '''Pritika Chowdhry''' is an Indian-born American artist, curator, and writer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/artist-pritika-chowdhry-is-bringing-stories-of-india-s-partition-to-the-global-stage-101648817164083.html|title=Artist Pritika Chowdhry is bringing stories of India's partition to the global stage|date=April 1, 2022|first=Abigail |last=Banerji|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pritika-chowdry-india-partition-anti-memorials/index.html|title='Anti-memorials' honor Indian Partition's unseen victims, 75 years on|author=Jacqui Palumbo|website=CNN}}</ref> She is known for her work in the socio-political domain.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbc26.com/news/national/artist-hopes-to-spark-conversations-about-traumatic-world-events | title=Artist hopes to spark conversations about traumatic world events | date=5 October 2021 |first=Ash-har |last=Quraishi |website=WGBA-TV}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/a-pop-icon-how-andy-warhol-continues-to-remain-in-the-news/2493516/ |title=A pop icon: How Andy Warhol continues to remain in the news |first=Vaishali |last=Dar | date=17 April 2022|website=Financial Express }}</ref>
Pritika is the founder of Partition Anti-Memorial Project and Counter-Memory Project.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2373566X.2015.1103196?journalCode=rgeo20 | doi=10.1080/2373566X.2015.1103196 | title=What the Nation Re-members: Resisting Victim Nationalism in ''Partition'' Memorial Project | year=2015 | last1=Micieli-Voutsinas | first1=Jacque | journal=GeoHumanities | volume=1 | issue=2 | pages=398–413 | s2cid=147050563 | url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://artdaily.com/news/143815/Memory-Leaks-Interview-with-Pritika-Chowdhry-and-Francesca-Ramsay | title=Memory Leaks Interview with Pritika Chowdhry and Francesca Ramsay |first=Francesca |last=Ramsay | date=5 October 2021 }}</ref>
==Biography== Born in India, Pritika grew up in New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/reimagining-nirbhaya-an-artist-s-ode-to-december-16-victim-101639635292805.html | title=Reimagining Nirbhaya: An artist's ode to December 16 victim | date=16 December 2021 |last=Jain |first=Siddhi |website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref name="nos">{{cite web | url=https://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2012-weekly/nos-08-01-2012/enc.htm#2 | title=Of kites, kurties and cartography|first=Quddus |last=Mirza| date=8 January 2012 |website=The News International}}</ref> In 1999, she moved to the United States.<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://www.hometownsource.com/abc_newspapers/news/artsentertainment/karmic-dis-continuities-on-display-at-banfill/article_7c5c926a-cb73-5373-a270-b467d8699cd0.html | title='Karmic (Dis)Continuities' on display at Banfill | date=23 April 2013}}</ref>
Pritika attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Art.<ref name="dawn">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/685228/artworks-remember-the-crooked-line|title=Artworks remember the crooked line|date=January 3, 2012|website=DAWN}}</ref> She continued her study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio arts and a Master of Arts (MA) in Visual Culture and Gender studies.<ref name="indianexp">{{cite web | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/artist-pritika-chowdhry-homage-women-narratives-traumatic-jallianwala-bagh-india-partition-7829600/ | title=Artist Pritika Chowdhry's 'anti-memorials' illustrate what is excluded from collective memories of Partition | date=18 April 2022 |first=Jayashree |last=Narayanan|website=Indian Express}}</ref>
Between 2009 and 2011, she was a visiting professor and taught at Macalester College and College of Visual Arts.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="indianexp"/>
In 2007, she founded the Partition Anti-Memorial Project.<ref name="indianexp"/> The project consists of nine sub-projects focusing on historical events, including the 1947 Partition of India, 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, and the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/memorial-project-by-pritika-chowdhry/5354 | title=The Partition Memorial Project by Pritika Chowdhry|first=Vittoria |last=Benzine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day/article/she-confronts-history-23220128|title=She confronts history|first=Nidhi |last=Lodaya | date=27 March 2022 |website=Mid-Day}}</ref> Her work has been exhibited at notable museums and arts galleries such as Queens Museum, Weisman Art Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Sanskriti Museum & Art Gallery, and Islip Art Museum.<ref name="indianexp"/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sanskritifoundation.org/installations.htm | title=Installations |access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref>
Pritika is the current senior curator at the South Asia Institute and is a member of the board of the Woman Made Gallery, Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://depauliaonline.com/59813/artslife/chicago-based-artist-anti-memorializes-the-partition-of-india/|title=Chicago-Based artist "anti-memorializes" the partition of India|date=September 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://womanmade.org/about/ | title=About |access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== * 2007: David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsdivision.wisc.edu/programs/arts-awards/ |title=Awards in the Creative Arts – Division of the Arts – UW–Madison |website=artsdivision.wisc.edu |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022442/https://artsdivision.wisc.edu/programs/arts-awards/ |archive-date=18 April 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2011: Performing and creative arts fellowship by American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiastudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/fellows2011-2012.pdf |title=2011 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellows|access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref>
==Selected exhibitions== * ''Local Time'', Weisman Art Museum, 2015<ref name="indianexp"/> * ''Empty Time'', Minnesota Museum of American Art, 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/week-saint-paul-monday-march-10-sunday-march-16-2014/|title=This week in Saint Paul|first=Clarence|last=White|date=10 March 2014}}</ref> * ''Remembering the Crooked Line'', Rohtas 2 Art Gallery, 2012<ref name="nos"/><ref name="dawn"/> * ''Story Time'', Islip Art Museum, 2010<ref name="indianexp"/> * ''Retellings'', Seven Art Gallery, 2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/border-line/|title=Border Line|date=September 21, 2010|first=Vandana |last=Kalra |website=Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20101010/spectrum/main9.htm|title=The Sunday Tribune – Spectrum|first=Saibal |last=Chatterjee |date=October 10, 2010|website=Tribune India}}</ref> * ''Erasing Borders'', Queens Museum of Art, 2009<ref name="indianexp"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders2009/index_QM.htm|title=Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the diaspora 2009|access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref> * ''The Master's Tongues'', Woman Made Gallery, 2009<ref>{{cite web | url=https://womanmade.org/artwork/pritika-chowdhry/ | title=Pritika Chowdhry | Woman Made Gallery |access-date=22 May 2022 }}</ref>
==Permanent collections== * American Swedish Institute<ref name="auto1"/> * Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/exhibition-history | title=About Pritika Chowdhry |access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref> * Weisman Art Museum<ref name="auto1"/>
==Bibliography== * Chowdhry, Pritika (2007). ''Visceral Mappings: Transdiasporic Art Practices''
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