Swati Khurana is drawn to the minute, the delicate, and the ephemeral.
tarot practice. She was born in New Delhi, raised in the Hudson Valley, and lives and
works in New York City. A follower of lunar cycles, she feels most at home in the
quiet, velvety darkness of night.
Originally a visual artist, in 2011 she left the art market and a studio-based practice
to focus on fiction, essays, and collaborative art projects.
Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Guernica, Chicago Quarterly Review,
The Offing, The Rumpus, and in the anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors. Her writing and visual artwork
have been supported by fellowships and residencies from New York Foundation for the Arts, Center for
Fiction, Jerome Foundation, Bronx Arts Council, Center for Books Arts, Cooper Union, Kundiman, Henry
Memory, pasts, artifice, artifacts, private moments, public spaces, popular culture,
Street Settlement, Wave Hill, and Vermont Studio Center.
She has presented her visual works in solo exhibitions at Chatterjee & Lal (Mumbai), A/P/A Gallery at NYU
Safari Gardens (The Gambia) and Diaspora Vibe (Miami), and over a hundred group exhibitions and
festivals. In 1997, she was a founding member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), an
organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South
Asian women artists across disciplines.
Currently, she is working on her novel The No.1 Printshop of Lahore and developing her podcast,
“TBR: Tarot Books Radio,” which uses the format of a Tarot reading to have conversations, centering
women-of-color artists, writers, and activists.
A lifelong learner, Swati has studied at Hunter College (M.F.A. Fiction), UnionDocs (Podcast School),
NYU (M.A. in Studio Art & Art Criticism), Columbia University (B.A. in History), Transformative Mediation
(Dutchess County Mediation Center), and Coaching Essentials (Continuing Coach Education). Yet her
greatest teachers have been an obsessive collection of books to be read, and her seven-year-old daughter.
Press
Featured in Teen Vogue’s Story on Witches and Equinox
Interview
"The Bollywood Gaze" published in the Miami SunPost by Michelle Weinberg
Exhibition Review
Review of Solo Show at Chatterjee & Lal published in DNA
Exhibition Review
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“The Pill Comes to Town” published in the Hindustan Times
Exhibition Review
“Seducing Structures and Stitches: Reappropriating Love, Desire and the Image”
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Scholarly Essay
“How To Make Thick Thin: The Vertical Seamlessness of Swati Khurana’s Collages”
Sarita E. See
Scholarly Essay
“JAISHRI ABICHANDANI PROTESTS SEXUAL VIOLENCE AT MET BREUER”
published in ArtAsiaPacific Magazine
Exhibition Review
TIME OUT Mumbai
Interview
"Artist Alleges Raghubir Singh Assaulted Her, Stages #MeToo Performance at His Retrospective" published in Hyperallergic
Exhibition Review
"New age art celebrates 50 years of the pill" published in News18
Exhibition Review
NYARTS - Leah Oates
Interview
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