Kiran has earned an Honors BA from St. Stephen’s College of Delhi University, a BFA from Lesley University’s Art Institute of Boston and an MFA from Hunter College. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad, including The Bronx Museum of Art, Wave Hill, Momenta Art and Bogart Salon, Brooklyn, NY; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India; and Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, India. She has been awarded a Cisneros Scholarship, a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship and a Women’s Edge Award, among other prizes. Residencies include SOMA Summer International Program, Mexico City, Mexico; Studio Arts Center, Florence, Italy; and The Cooper Union’s Summer Art Intensive, New York, NY. Chandra is the founder of Temporary Agency, an artist-run alternative space, that ran for 9 months out of a Chashama granted space in Ridgewood, Queens.
Kiran Chandra
Education
2013 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY
2002 Studio Arts Center International, Florence, Italy
2002 BFA Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, Boston, MA
1998 BA (Honors) English St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Delhi, India
Residencies/Fellowships
2018 Apex Art Fellowship
2017 Residency - Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2017 AIM Program, Bronx Museum, NY
2015 Wave Hill Sunroom Fellowship, NY
2014 Fellowship from The Project Group at Vastra Gottaland and Halland, Sweden
2013 SOMA Summer International Program, Mexico City
2012 Bric Media Arts Fellowship
2004 Cooper Union Summer Residency, NY
Solo Projects
2016 Mother of Intentions, The Chimney NY
2015 Interpenetrations Sun Room Project at Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY
2014 Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY
2013 ‘Tell me the time you say,’ and what you really say is ‘tell me a story’, Hunter College
2012 This Place, That Place, Displace, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India
2009 T(HERE), and the space between, Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
2009 This Place That Place, Humanities Gallery at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2017 Archipelago, The Chimney NY
2017 Call and Response, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY
2017 First Look: AIM Bronx Biennial, Bronx Museum, NY
2017 Whitney Houston Biennial, NY
2016 Sister Outsider, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Onion by the Ocean, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 The Sublime of the Mundane, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Demystifying Feminism, Women Make Art, City College of New York, NY
2014 Games People Play, Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Whitney Houston Biennial, New York, NY
2012 100 Prints Celebrating 100 Years, AIB Centennial Alumni Exhibition, Boston, MA
2012 City Drift Bushwick, Momenta and Bogart Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2011 That Sense of Magic Lost, CAC, Hunter College, NY, NY
2011 Crown Heights Gold, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Faces of the Economy, Art for Change Gallery, New York, NY
2011 The Billboard Art Project, Nashville, TN
2010 Sharing Art: 33rd Film Festival of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
2009 Le Flash: A Very Loud Silence, Curated by Avantika Bawa,Cathy Byrd, Stuart Keeler, Atlanta, GA
2009 Choice, 303 Grand Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Sasia, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ. Juried show by Zette Emmons
2008 Body Shop, Karin Kohlberg Studio, New York, NY
2008 Urban Similies: Transforming the Cities, Project 88, Mumbai, India - Subhalaxmi Shukla
2007 First Look, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2007 Virtual Residency: Faux Movement, Metz, France
2006 In a State of Emergency, Women, War and the Politics of Urban Survival. Alwan for the Arts, NY
2004 Passport to Contemporary Indian Art, Curated by Sundaram Tagore
2004 Territories, Gallery Artsindia, New York, NY
Honors
2013 Cisneros Scholarship for study in Latin America
2003 Women’s Edge Award, one of six artist’s works’ chosen to be awarded to Members of Congress
2002 SACI/CMYK scholarship recipient for study abroad program in Florence, Italy
2002 Deans List, Art Institute of Boston
2000 Merit Scholarship, Art Institute of Boston
1998 Rajpal Memorial Award Literature Prize, St. Stephen’s College
Artist’s Talks
2013 A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2012 Amateur Astronomers Society of Voorhees, New York, NY
2009 Abu Dhabi Women’s College and Dubai Women’s College, UAE
2007 Abu Dhabi Women’s College, UAE
2006 Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata, India
Publications
2013 An Essay in Sarai Reader 09: Projections, Edited by Raqs Media Collective and Sarai
http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/09-projections,
Teaching Assignments
Graduate Programs: New York University (NYU) Lecturer, School Arts, Brooklyn College -Lecturer, Visual Culture
Undergraduate Programs: New York University (NYU) Lecturer, Global Histories of Art, Hunter College - Lecturer, Asian American Art in Asian American Studies Program (AASP), City College of New York - Lecturer, Art Education, Brooklyn College - Lecturer, Visual Culture
Museum Educator at Museum of Modern Art, MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art