Board
Anantha Sudhakar
Anantha Sudhakar is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University. She currently serves as a research assistant at Rutgers’ Center for Race and Ethnicity and, from 2000-2003, worked as the Public Programs Director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry has been published in the Asian Pacific American Journal.
Anjali Bhargava
Anjali Bhargava (b. Canada) is a freelance photographer based in New York City. She received her BS in Photography from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Her work had been published and/or shown in the US, Canada, India, Australia, the UK and Germany. Samples of her work can be seen here.
Anjali Goyal
Anjali Goyal works in writing/publishing in New York City and edits fiction for DesiLit, an online literary journal. Until recently, she was the Programs Director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Baseera Khan
Baseera received her BFA with a concentration in Drawing/Painting and Sociology at The University of North Texas in 2005. After graduating, she was awarded a one-year work/live artist residency at UTDallas, in Texas. While in residence Baseera was also awarded an Arch and Anne Gilles Kimbrough Fund through the Dallas Museum of Art. She became a finalist for the International Artist-in-Residence position at ArtPace in 2006.
Currently Baseera lives and works as an artist in Brooklyn, New York. She installed her first solo exhibition this year through New York and San Francisco based Hosefelt Gallery. Her work was recently included in the Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory by Phaidon Press Ltd (April 2009) for the New Museum. You can view her work at baseerakhan.com
Baseera also maintains a position as Assistant Curator, Gallery Manager at BRIC Contemporary Art a program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn.
Jaishri Abichandani
Jaishri Abichandani (b. India) is an artist, curator and Founder of SAWCC in New York and London. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, UK and has shown her work internationally including at P.S.1 MOMA, the Queens Museum of Art, Nature Morte & Gallery Chemould in India, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, and the Guangzhou Triennial 2008. She has also curated Fatal Love and Queens International 06 at the Queens Museum of Art; Sultana’s Dream, Exploding the Lotus, and Anomalies (Rossi & Rossi, 2009).
Meenakshi Thirukode
Meenakshi Thirukode is a writer and curator based in New York. She graduated with Honors for Art Critical and Historical development from the Masters program at Christies Education, New York. She has written for a leading newspaper in India – The Hindu and is a regular columnist for White Wall Magazines online daily (whitewallmag.com) as well as artconcerns.com. Her curatorial projects include Whose Territorial Imperative, The Guild, New York and Wonder What The Others Are Upto, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Cochin, India. She was recently elected to the Christies Alumni Society Board, Christies, NY. For further information on past, present and future projects please visit www.meensonindianart.blogspot.com
Meenakshi also works at The Guild Art Gallery, NY.
Renuka Sawhney
Renuka Sawhney is the Director at the The Guild Art Gallery. With galleries in New York and Mumbai, The Guild is one of the leading galleries showing the works of emerging and established Indian Contemporary Artists.
www.guildindia.com, www.theguildny.com
Sonali Sridhar
In 1998 I moved from Bangalore, India to Atlanta, Georgia to study Communication Design at the Atlanta College of Art. The transition from curry to BBQ was tough, but I soon learned the value of acclimation and tempered my studies with a healthy dose of Americana. At ACA, I focused my studies on graphic design and printmaking.
With a BFA in hand, and up for an adventure, I drove across the country to San Francisco, where I became a collateral and brand designer. A few years later, I headed back across the country once again, this time to pursue a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where I specialized in human/object interaction and sensory design.
I currently work as an Interaction Designer in New York, using web, print and mobile electronics to explore the connectivity and psychology of design. I also work with wearable technology, designing objects that interact with daily life, form addictions and provide comfort.
Uzma Rizvi
Uzma Z. Rizvi is an anthropologist/archaeologist and has been an active cultural producer since 1993. Based out of Brooklyn since 2002, her work spans performance/theater, documentary, and radio. She is an active committee member of SATAM (South Asian Theater Arts Movement). Before joining the Board, she worked with SAWCC as co-curator for In a State of Emergency? Women, War, and the Politics of Urban Survival (2006) and wrote a catalog essay for Sultana’s Dream, SAWCC’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition (2007). A Board member since 2007, Uzma co-curated the SAWCC benefit auction (Fall 2007) and chaired the Visual Arts Show Committee (Summer 2008). You may have seen her at various SAWCC events ringing the time bell or asking long questions (blame the academic in her!). She recently co-edited Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique (Altamira 2008); and previously served as Chair and Faculty Fellow for the Initiative on Art, Community and Social Change at the Pratt Center for Community Development. Returning from her one-year hiatus (humanities post-doc at Stanford University), Uzma re-emerges in Brooklyn as Assistant Professor in Urban Studies, in the Departments of Social Science and Cultural Studies, and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute.
