April 29 – May 3, 2026
Pyaari Azaadi, whose solo retrospective Talkin’ Bout a Revolution took place at Pen + Brush’s September 2025 through February 2026, formerly known as Jaishri Abichandani, Azaadi brings her lifelong commitment to art, activism, and community into every facet of her multidisciplinary practice. The works on view reflect Azaadi’s fearless approach to material, form, and feminist intervention. Known for her sculptural sensibility and visceral imagery, Azaadi challenges dominant narratives and reframes art history through decolonial and feminist perspectives. A forthcoming exhibition catalog, including essays by curator Carmen Hermo and Hrag Vartanian, founder of Hyperallergic, will accompany the retrospective.
Pyaari Azaadi (she/her; b. 1969, Bombay, India) immigrated to the US in 1984. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Pyaari has continued to intertwine studio and social practice, art and activism, creating transformative work with Queer, BIPoC communities in New York for three decades. She founded the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) in New York (1997) and London (2004). She is a recipient of the Huntington Arts Council Fellowship and a grant from New York Foundation for the Arts. Azaadi has exhibited internationally including a critically acclaimed solo exhibition, Flower Headed Children at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles in 2022. Group exhibitions include P.S.1/MoMA, the Queens Museum of Art, and Asia Society in New York, 798 Beijing Biennial and Guangzhou Triennial in China, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, IVAM in Valencia, Spain, and the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany.
