Erasing Borders 2011: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora

Erasing Borders 2011 Twenty million people of Indian origin shifted countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. Implicit in the term Diaspora are the concepts of change and adaptation. Cultural dislocation can produce unexpected and powerful results. Artistic subject matter is often drawn from the country of origin, while many of the aesthetic decisions and political concerns come from the artists’ newfound situations. Artists of the South Asian Diaspora are working to make themselves heard in an art world that is at once more competitive and more receptive to non-Western art than ever before. Erasing Borders 2011 seeks to transcend the borders that confine and control preconceived definitions of Indian and Western art.

The exhibition dates are September 19 - December 9, 2011 at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in the University of Connecticut, located at 2132 Hillside Road, Unit 3104 in Storrs, Connecticut. It features work by 43 South Asian artists includ- ing: Fasihu Ahsan, Mohammed Bari, Samanta Batra Mehta, Fareen Butt, Amita Chatterjee, Sonia Chaudhary, Nandini Chirimar, Neil Chowdhury, Uday K Dhar, Reet Das, Delna Dastur, Anjali Deshmukh, Anujan Ezhikode, Aaliyah Gupta, Mansoora Hassan, Mumtaz Hussain, Tehniyet Hussain, Samina Iqbal, Nidhi Jalan, Sunita Jariwala Gajjar, Reeta Gidwani – Karmarkar, Kulvinder Kaur Dhew, Aamir Khan Tarin , Srinivas Krishna, Shaurya Kumar , Shobha Menon, Rahul Mitra, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Kuzana Ogg, Avani Patel, Minna Philips, Antonio Puri, Talha Rathore, Rasika Reddy, Sangeeta Reddy, Pinku Roy-Bari, Tara Sabharwal, Satyakam Saha, Pallavi Sharma, Sara Suleman , Roshani Thakore , MD Tokon and Prince Varughese Thomas.

The renowned Indian artist Natvar Bhavsar will be included as the guest artist to the exhibition. For artist bios and images, please log on to: http:// www.iaac.us/erasing_ borders_ 2011 / index.htm