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= Preetika Rajgariah =

Preetika Rajgariah (born in India, residing in Houston, Texas) is a visual artist whose work often focuses on concepts of otherness, diaspora, race, and gender. Although she originally characterized herself as a painter, in recent years she has branched into other media, including saris and Sindoor powder, as she explores her Indian roots in her art.

During an 2018 interview with Arts and Culture Texas Magazine, Rajgariah spoke about how "otherness" factors into her artwork: "“The feeling of otherness feeds my work, both my otherness within the Indian community as the child of an immigrant family raised in America, and as an ‘other’ in America, namely one with dark skin.”"

=== Education === 2018 MFA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

2008 BFA, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Residencies
2018       Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI

2018       ACRE, Steuben, WI

2014       Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2010       School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Solo or Two Person Exhibitions
2019       Wild, Wild Country, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

Entangled, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

I Ain’t Sari, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

2018       An Undoing, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL

2017       Star Spangled, Women’s Resource Center, Champaign, IL

2016       So Exotic, Lightbox Gallery, Champaign, IL

Intersections, Figure One Gallery, Champaign, IL

2015       Migrating Identities, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions
2019       Jagah//Jadoo, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA

Threshing Whispers, Neidorff Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2018       Let the Fancy, UIS Visual Art Gallery, Springfield, IL

Sari Not Sorry, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

MaMA: Women in the Arts, The Union, Houston, TX

2017       A Sag, Harbored, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

20th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Between the Sky and the Earth, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL

2016       Pattern Recognition, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO

Temporary Proportions, CV Lloyd Gallery, Champaign, IL

Space & Weight, South Studios, Champaign, IL

2013       American Painting Today: Physical & Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI

Disturbance of Distance, Box 13, Houston, TX

2012       The Power of Paint, Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, TX

4th Annual Juried Exhibition, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX

2011       Gambol, Finalist, The Art League, Houston, TX

The Sketchbook Project, Art House, Brooklyn, NY

2008       Thought for Food, Trinity University Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Publications + Grants
2019       Let Creativity Happen, Houston Arts Alliance.

2018       “Texas Studio: Preetika Rajgariah.” Emily Hynds. Arts and Culture Texas.

“Home to Self: An Interview with Preetika Rajgariah.” Tempestt Hazel. Sixty From Center.

“OPP Interviews Preetika Rajgariah”. Stacia Yeapanis. OtherPeoplesPixels.

2012       New American Paintings, No. 102, Western Issue.