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'''Swati Khurana''' is a writer and contemporary artist of Indian-American origin.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Vanita Reddy |editor1-last=Hegde |editor1-first=Radha Sarma |editor2-last=Sahoo |editor2-first=Ajaya Kumar |title=Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |chapter=Diasporic Visual Cultures of Indian Fashion and Beauty}}</ref> She was born in [[New Delhi]], [[India]] in 1975. She emigrated to New York in 1977, where she lives and works.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Digital Archive Of Asian/Asian American Contemporary Art History|url=http://artasiamerica.org/documents/6930|website=Asian American Arts Centre}}</ref> She graduated from [[Poughkeepsie Day School]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=Compass|url=http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/uploaded/photos/Alumni/Class_Notes/Compass_2013_ClassNotes.pdf|website=Poughkeepsie Day School Alumni|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402142804/http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/uploaded/photos/Alumni/Class_Notes/Compass_2013_ClassNotes.pdf|archive-date=2 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> She holds a B.A. in History from [[Columbia University]], M.A. in Studio Art and Art Criticism from [[New York University]], and an MFA in Creative Writing at [[Hunter College]].<ref>{{cite web|title=40 Years of Women Artists at Douglass Library|url=https://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/mary-h-dana-women-artists-series/40-years-of-women-artists-at-douglass-library/virtual-exhibit/|website=Institute for Women and Art|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.is/20150307201505/https://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/mary-h-dana-women-artists-series/40-years-of-women-artists-at-douglass-library/virtual-exhibit/|archive-date=2015-03-07|df=}}</ref>

== Writing ==
Her fiction and essays have been published in ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Khurana|first=Swati|date=2014-10-22|title=Diwali, Once Hidden, Now Lit Large|url=https://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/diwali-once-hidden-now-lit-large/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=Motherlode Blog|language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Guernica (magazine)|Guernica]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Khurana|first=Swati|date=2016-03-15|title=Wife!|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/wife/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=Guernica|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Chicago Quarterly Review'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1012490117|title=The South Asian American issue|others=Sheikh, Moazzam.|isbn=978-1-5429-2559-4|location=Evanston, IL|oclc=1012490117}}</ref> ''[[Asian American Literary Review]]'', ''The Offing'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Swati Khurana|url=https://theoffingmag.com/contributor/swati-khurana/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=The Offing|language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[The Rumpus]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Swati Khurana|url=https://therumpus.net/author/swati-khurana/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=The Rumpus.net|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Massachusetts Review]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Volume 59, Issue 4 {{!}} Mass Review|url=https://www.massreview.org/node/7285|access-date=2020-06-18|website=www.massreview.org}}</ref> the ''Good Girls Marry Doctors'' anthology,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/952139129|title=Good Girls Marry Doctors : South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion|others=Bhattacharya, Piyali.|isbn=978-1-879960-92-3|location=San Francisco, CA|oclc=952139129}}</ref> and cited as a Notable Essay in ''[[The Best American Essays|Best American Essays 2019]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1119643662|title=The best American essays. 2019|others=Solnit, Rebecca, Atwan, Robert.|isbn=1-328-46711-2|location=Boston|oclc=1119643662}}</ref> She has received support from [[New York Foundation for the Arts]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=NYFA.org|title=Introducing {{!}} NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists|url=https://current.nyfa.org/post/175744481278/introducing-nyscanyfa-artist-fellowship-program|access-date=2020-06-18|website=NYFA.org - NYFA Current}}</ref> [[Vermont Studio Center]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vermont Studio Center - Fellowships|url=https://vermontstudiocenter.org/fellowships|access-date=2020-06-18|website=Vermont Studio Center|language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Center for Fiction]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship: Past Fellows|url=https://centerforfiction.org/grants-awards/nyc-emerging-writers-fellowship/nyc-emerging-writers-fellowship-past-fellows|access-date=2020-06-18|website=The Center for Fiction|language=en-US}}</ref> for her creative writing.

== Visual Art ==
Khurana works in embroidery, collage, drawing, and installation, exploring gender and rituals that are particular to Indian immigrant culture.<ref>{{cite web|last1=McGlown|first1=Misha|title=Rituals, Resistance, and Assimilation|url=http://www.ofnotemagazine.org/2014/04/30/india-swati-khurana/|website=Of Note Magazine|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> Her videos have been described "delightful, wry" in ''[[The New York Times]]'' <ref>{{cite web|last1=Holland|first1=Cotter|title=ART IN REVIEW; 'Artist in the Marketplace'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/arts/art-in-review-artist-in-the-marketplace.html|website=The New York Times|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> and "dreamy" in ''Time Out New York.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Banai|first1=Nuit|title=Neo, Neo-Dada|url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/neo-neo-dada|website=Time Out New York|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref>''

In the "Texting Scrolls" project, Khurana transcribes viewers' text messages into handmade scrolls.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=A.C.|title=Literary Festival Examines Digital Age|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/nyregion/literary-festival-by-south-asian-womens-creative-collective.html?_r=0|website=The New York Times|accessdate=8 March 2015}}</ref> "Texting Scrolls" has been part of the Art in Odd Places festival,<ref>{{cite web|title=Presenting visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces.|url=http://www.artinoddplaces.org/aiop-model-photo-retrospective-part-1/|website=Art in Odd Place}}</ref> Kriti Festival at [[University of Illinois-Chicago]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Merchant|first1=Preston|title=Kriti Festival Rocks South Asian Arts in Chicago|url=http://theaerogram.com/kriti-festival-rocks-south-asian-arts-chicago/|website=The Aerogram}}</ref> "A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It" exhibition at the [[Queens Museum]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Toukhy|first1=Katherine|title=A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It|url=http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/16038/a-bomb-with-ribbon-around-it|website=Jadaliyya}}</ref> DUMBO Arts Festival,<ref>{{cite web|title=Photos and Video from SUBLIME at DUMBO Arts Festival|url=http://www.sawcc.org/photos-from-sublime-at-dumbo-arts-festival/|website=SAWCC}}</ref> and [[Brooklyn Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Brooklyn Museum Honors Women’s History Month|url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press/uploads/March_2014_FSAT_Press_Release.pdf|website=Brooklyn Museum|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> For Parijat Desai Dance Company, Khurana co-designed projections for 'Songs to Live For' with Neeraj Churi, staged at [[Tribeca Performing Arts Center]], where "eternally calm and august figures—exalted [[Mughal tribe|Mughal]] royalty—watch in painted silence as the dancers bring to life scenes of the age-old story of love and devotion."<ref>{{cite web|title=Reviews: Parijat Desai Dance Company (PDDC)|url=http://www.dance-enthusiast.com/get-involved/reviews/view/Parijat-Desai-Dance-Company-PDDC-3242010|website=Dance Enthusiast}}</ref>

In the essay "Seducing Structures and Stitches: Reappropriating Love, Desire and the Image," [[Uzma Z. Rizvi|Uzma Rizvi]] wrote that "the stitched canvases of the 'Bridal Trousseau' series are both retro-feminist and very contemporary. Needlework, in itself, is a heavy referent within a [[Postcolonial feminism|postcolonial feminist]] context. These canvases are literally stitched images of the self."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rizvi|first1=Uzma|title=Seducing Structures and Stitches: Reappropriating Love, Desire and the Image|url=https://www.academia.edu/4174780/Seducing_Structures_and_Stitches_Reappropriating_Love_Desire_and_the_Image|website=Academia.edu|publisher=Catalogue Essay}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==
Khurana has exhibited at the [[Smithsonian Institution]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Beyond Bollywood|url=http://smithsonianapa.org/beyondbollywood/2014/02/26/unexpected/|website=Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center|access-date=7 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917205411/http://smithsonianapa.org/beyondbollywood/2014/02/26/unexpected/|archive-date=17 September 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Exit Art,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Heller|first1=Maxwell|title=TRACKS: Sultana’s Dream and the SAWCC|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/09/art/sultana|website=Brooklyn Rail|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> [[Zacheta National Gallery of Art]] (Warsaw),<ref>{{cite web|title=Generation in Transition|url=http://www.zacheta.art.pl/en/article/view/500/generation-in-transition-new-art-from-india|website=Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki|access-date=7 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.is/20150307201414/http://www.zacheta.art.pl/en/article/view/500/generation-in-transition-new-art-from-india|archive-date=7 March 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and with the [[South Asian Women's Creative Collective]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sawcc.org/coded-bodies/|title=Coded Bodies – South Asian Women's Creative Collective|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-18}}</ref> About her solo exhibition at Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai, she was "touted as one of the most promising young Indian artists in the international contemporary art scene."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Doshi|first1=Riddhi|title=Matrimonial Art: A Unique Form|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-matrimonial-art-a-unique-form-1331257|website=DNA}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.swatikhurana.com Artist Website]
* [http://chatterjeeandlal.com/shows/love-letters-and-other-necessary-fictions ''Love Letters & Necessary Fictions''] Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai 2010.
* [http://www.designdistrictmag.com/art2.htm ''Engendered''] Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, 2007.
* [http://www.nyu.edu/apa/gallery/index.htm ''Garden of Export Delights''] A/P/A Gallery, New York University, 2001.

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[[Category:Artists from New York City]]
[[Category:American women artists of Indian descent]]
[[Category:Feminist artists]]
[[Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni]]
[[Category:New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study alumni]]
[[Category:American contemporary artists]]
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