Curators

Chhachhi began as an activist and photographer documenting the women’s movement in India. By the 1990s, she moved to creating collaborative staged photographs, eventually turning to large multimedia installations. Her works retrieve marginal worlds: of women, mendicants, forgotten forms of labour, and often draw on pre-modern thought and visual histories, interweaving the mythic and the social.

Chhachhi has exhibited widely in India, and internationally, her works are held in significant public and private collections, including MoMa, New York, Tate Modern, UK, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Modern Art, India, amongst many others. She was awarded the Juror’s Prize for contemporary art in Asia by the Singapore Art Museum in 2011 and in 2018 the Thun Prize for Art & Ethics. She lives and works in New Delhi.