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| Chitra Ramanathan | |
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| Born | Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, India |
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| Occupation | Artist Painter Art educator |
Chitra Ramanathan (born in Thiruvananthapuram India) (Tamilதமிழ் ; is a contemporary Indian American visual artist and educator. She produces predominantly large scale abstract conceptual mixed media paintings, drawings, prints, site-specific installation works, and sculpture that have been exhibited in art galleries in SoHo, Broadway Manhattan, New York, solo exhibition at the ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation at Chicago, and more recently a 2006 solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Artsgarden, Circle Centre. Website representations include the Saatchi Gallery, Imagekind.com and askArt.com. Several of her colorful mixed media paintings are with art collectors around the United States and in Europe including donation of two large-scale paintings on permanent display in the conference hall of the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1995, a painting sold at the Madam C.J. Walker Theatre Center, Indianapolis towards benefit to the Eightieth Birthday Benefit Gala Dinner-silent and live art auction in 2006 and an April 2008 large, mixed-media work created by her towards art auction for the Indianapolis International Film Festival 2008 that she based on the Hollywood movie "Breaking Away", 1979.
Commissions include a series of post-card paintings which was a commission for the Florida International University art department, Miami, Florida in 2005, and a series of ten post-card sized paintings to the Indianapolis Museum of Art's "Gallery of the Machine" in 2006.
 One of two Chitra Ramanathan's mixed media large scale paintings owned by the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Recently completed art commission entails creating a wall mural measuring 13.8 feet wide and 4 feet high, for the front lobby of Crooked Creek Elementary School, Marion County, Indianapolis, this March 2008 site specific public art project made possible through a grant to the school by the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township (MSDWT) which is a public school district in Indianapolis. Earlier site specific public art commissions and installation art projects include two large paintings for the MGM Mirage Las Vegas housed in the Cafe Bellagio located inside the Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Las Vegas in 2004,
 A pair of Chitra Ramanathan's signed 4 ft X 6 ft mixed media paintings inside the Bellagio Conservatory, Las Vegas, Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas Strip, commissioned by MGM Mirage, 2004 |
 Close-up photograph of one of artist Chitra Ramanathan's signed paintings in the Bellagio Conservatory, Las Vegas, a 2004 commission by MGM Mirage |
and five large-scale multi-media paintings for the Arts Council of Indianapolis at Chase Tower, near Monument Circle Indianapolis in 2006, supported by the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission. Her work has attracted invitational visiting artist lectures to educational institutions such as the Kansas State University art department in 2002, and the Royal Academy of Arts's Royal Academy Schools London, England Great Britain in 2005 by current RA Keeper and Head Professor Maurice Cockrill, RA FBA. She is a current committee member of the College Art Association, New York. She twice received the Liquitex Product Grant Award for 1994 and 1995, from Binney & Smith, makers of Crayola crayons. The awards were designated for "Outstanding achievement in the Painting discipline." She is an alumna of the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and currently Painting Faculty at the Indianapolis Art Center. She first received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Stella Maris College, an autonomous institution affiliated to the University of Madras in Chennai, India. She earned her second Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting with Honors in 1993 during which period she also allotted time to study Painting and Art History in Paris, France, with visits to Giverny, France that influenced her later work. and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A), including a 1996 summer internship at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in 1997, both of the latter degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
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(*Chitra (चित्र) is a very rare hindu name for the female child in India derived from the sanskrit word for portrait, painting or picture).
[edit] References
"Paintings Give Form to the Ephemeral", section: Women in Business, Indianapolis Business Journal, April 2007
Saatchi Gallery London, Artist Profile
Biography/listee, Marquis Who's Who in America 62nd edition 2008
[edit] External Links
http://www.in.gov/film/pdf/sourcebook.pdf (Section: ART page 18, under Art Directors, Scenic Artists, Set Construction)
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2993868/ at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.askart.com/askart/r/chitra_ramanathan/chitra_ramanathan.aspx http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/bulletin.aspx?searchtype=DISCUSS&artist=130159
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign_people
http://www.art.uiuc.edu/a+d/news/news.cfm?id=193&type=Alumni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIUC_College_of_Fine_and_Applied_Arts
http://www.collegeart.org/committees/diversity.htm
http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/sessions/day/friday
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/attend.html
[Saatchi Gallery, London Artist Profile]
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6562923/Creative-pursuit-of-happiness-paintings.html
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