Chintia Kirana



Chintia Kirana is a Chinese Indonesian born American artist. She is best known for her abstract and minimalistic work exploring identity, passage of time, and spirituality. Her art practice includes curatorial projects and socially engaged community arts.

Biography
Kirana was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. She received a BA in painting from Auburn University Montgomery and an MFA in painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University.

She served as the art director for the Indonesian movie The Architecture of Love (2024).

Career
Kirana's projects often explore themes of collective identity and are marked by collaboration and active participation.

“I imagine my designs as multiple community groups,” says Kirana.

She also taught visual arts at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. Kirana serves on the board of trustees of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Kirana is the founder of "Expose Art," an art magazine, and "ArtHouse," an artist-run arts residency as well as co-founded "Montgomery Arts Projects (MAP)," an organization that fosters artistic exchange by bringing artists from the United States and abroad to Montgomery. Through MAP, Kirana has created numerous community art projects such as Inside Out Project. She participated in the Little Amal Walk With Amal US Tour project in Montgomery, Alabama as the artistic director for her project called "Some Broken Things Can Be Mended."

Exhibitions
Kirana has appeared in galleries and museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including:
 * Alabama Triennial Invitational Exhibit at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
 * Uncommon Territory Exhibit at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
 * Frequent Goodbyes at H-Space in Washington, DC
 * Between Heaven and Earth at Wiregrass Museum
 * This is Me, curated by Dashboard at Kress on Dexter in Montgomery, Alabama

Media references and appearances
Kirana was a guest on a television show Expressions. She is included in the Alabama Public Television Show called Monograph winter 2021 Edition