Kushala Vora

Kushala-Vora-resident-2023

Kushala Vora

  • January – December 2023
  • Chicago, IL

Kushala Vora (she/her, they/them) is a dreamer, community organizer, and an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture and drawing. Her practice focuses on reducing the exertion of power on oneself, another, and the landscape in which we reside.

Kushala has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Mana Contemporary, Chicago; Harvard University, Cambridge; Chicago Artist Coalition among other places. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Chicago Artist Coalition, Søndre Green Farm Norway, ACRE Residency, and Vermont Studio Center. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and holds a post-graduate diploma in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art History and Curatorial Studies from Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai. She is the co-founder of Atmo – a reading + praxis forum.