Meera George
Born in Chennai, Meera George hails from Kerala, South India. Alumni of Delhi college of Art and Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK; Meera predominantly works in mediums of Mixed media, installation and performance art that she exhibits internationally. Recipient of eight international grants and residencies, her work is sensitive to cross-cultural feminist issues, at the same time strongly autobiographical through the use of her own body and objects from her culture as actors and props in her works.
In 2008, she was awarded a grant by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, where she was commissioned to create an installation and performance art work for the museum titled ‘Onnagata’ eluding to the role of women in Japanese culture. In recent years the artist has been awarded fellowships from Fremantle Arts Centre in Western Australia (2017), Cite’ International des Arts (2019) and La Napoule Art Foundation in France (2022).
George’s recent mixed media artworks that comment on the impermanence of existence and climate change strike a delicate balance between material and concept. Meera George currently lives and works in Pune, India.