Jagjit Chuhan

Jagjit Chuhan (born 1955) is an Indian-British artist, art curator and art lecturer. She is Professor of International Art at Liverpool John Moores University.

Life

Jagjit Chuhan was born in 1955 in Punjab, India. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1973 to 1977.[1]

Chuhan became Reader in Eclecticism in Art, and chair of the Centre for Art International Research (CAIR), at Liverpool John Moores University. In 1999 she collaborated with Laura Arison on 'an intimate mosaic' at the Senate House of the University of Liverpool. She also co-curated 'Lines of Desire', a drawing exhibition which toured internationally in 1999.[1]

Works

Exhibitions

Books
  • (ed.) Responses – intercultural drawing practice. Liverpool : Liverpool School of Art and Design (Centre for Art International Research), 2001.
  • (ed. with Angela Dimitrakaki and Emma Thomas) Re: trace dialogues : essays on contemporary art and culture. Liverpool: Liverpool School of Art and Design (Centre for Art International Research), 2002.
  • (ed. with Fareda Khan and Sheila Maddison) Reflections: in conversation with artists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Manchester: Shisha, 2004.

References
  1. Alison Donnell (2002). "Chuhan, Jagit". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 77–8. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  2. Jo Manby & J. Chuhan, eds., A long way from home : a painter's journey, Salford Quays: Lowry Press, Manchester; Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications, 2002. ISBN 9781902970271
  3. Parampara: portraits by J. Chuhan: new perceptions of the British/South Asian experience, Manchester: Shisha, 2004. ISBN 9780954556327
  4. J. Chuhan: Recent Paintings, The Double Negative, January 2013.
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