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= Serena Chopra =

Biography
Serena Chopra, born in 1953 in India, is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer, and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD In Creative writing from the University of Denver, an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was a Kundiman Fellow, a 2011 – 2013 Redline artist in Residence, a 2016 – 2017 Fulbright Scholar in Bangalore, India, and received an artist residency at Understudy Denver for September 2020.

Career
She has been a company member with Evolving Doors Dance for 8 years and co-founded and is an actor in the poet’s theater group, GASP. In 2016, she worked with Splintered Light Theater on a full-length production of her book, Ic, and she also composed the soundscape for it. She is working on an ongoing text/image collaboration with artist Lu Cong, Memory is a Future Tense. Serena was a featured artist in Harper’s Bazaar (India) and in the Denver Westward’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has publications in Foglifter, Sink and Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna). Serena Chopra is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.

Books and Films
Serena Chopra has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013), and IC (Horse Less Press 2017), and two films. Mother Ghosting (2018) and Dogana/Chapti (2018),which won ArtHyve’s Archives as Muse Film grant, Official Selection at FrameLine, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Seattle Queer Film Festival and Cinema  Diverse.

Shows and Exhibitions
Urban Aggregate, Understudy, Screening: Mother Ghosting, Denver, December 2018.

Real Life: An Installation by Julie Carr, ATLAS Theater, Screening: There Is Nothing Good About the Tyranny of Beauty, Boulder, October 2018.

Gendered Senses, Georgia Art Gallery, Screening: Mother Ghosting, Denver, October 2018.

Invisible Boundary curated by Carmen Winant, “The Rejection of Closure” (Graphite, 2 ft x 12ft.), RedLine Gallery, October-December 2013.

Material Engagements curated by Harmony Hammond, “Soft Architecture” (Clay, Paper, Crayon, Ink), RedLine Gallery, November-December 2012.