Chitra Ramanathan
Contemporary visual artist who has created site-specific public art and custom paintings of varied scales for organizations and private clients since 2004.
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Media
Program Affiliations: Artist Roster
About Chitra Ramanathan
Chitra Ramanathan is an Indian American contemporary visual artist and educator known for her predominantly abstract acrylic and mixed-media paintings. Her body of work visually portrays happiness. Exhibiting since 1994, her career debuted with solo and group exhibits in various art galleries on Broadway, New York, noticed by critics in publications such as Manhattan Arts International. The established artist’s original works are created in expansive scales, as well as multi-panel paintings as diptychs or triptychs. Her ongoing works are distinct with the treatment of fresh colors, and collage characterized by intricately interwoven textures that glow to express the concept of happiness and expression of joy.
Her work has been commissioned by organizations such as the MGM Resorts International to create a pair of large-scale paintings housed in their Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas since 2004, educational institutions including the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois in 1996, a 13.8 ft. wide mural which the artist created at Crooked Creek Elementary School at Indianapolis in 2008, and recent large private and business client commissions in 2020 and beyond.
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Chitra Ramanathan’s ongoing widely acquired and commissioned body of work visually portrays happiness through colors and textures, deemed suitable for all venues and audiences.
Chitra Ramanathan in her art studio with recent paintings. Photograph: Wikipedia public domain image.
About Chitra Ramanathan
Norcross, GA
There has been no looking back for contemporary visual artist Chitra Ramanathan since 1995 when the artist’s career debuted with solo and group exhibitions of her paintings at different venues including Agora Gallery on Broadway, New York City. Noticed by art critics for her concept and originality, her name and art were featured in different art publications including Manhattan Arts Magazine.
Ramanathan’s unique, intuitive style of painting is distinct with her treatment of fresh, bright colors executed with rapid brush strokes. Often combined with varied intricately interwoven textural materials interwoven into the paint rather than mere stand-alone collages, her work visually creates the aura of extending beyond their two-dimensional surfaces, frequently created in expansive scale, or as multi-paneled works with the concept of happiness and expression of joy, the theme of her ongoing body of work. They have been featured in venues including courthouses, hotels and prominent solo and group exhibitions or as specific commissioned projects. Her numerous originals have been acquired by private and business clients, auctions, and site-specific public art commissions including an installation of a pair of custom-created paintings at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in 2004 invited by MGM Resorts International.
Recent private commissions include a recently completed commission request by a private client in Dayton area, Ohio to create pair of paintings identically measuring 7 feet high by 3.4 feet wide that was completed in July 2020. In 2016, a three-paneled painting was commissioned by the CEO of Biaggis chain of restaurants in Bloomington, Illinois, and a 5 feet wide X 3 feet high commissioned piece for a private client in Boston, MA in 2018.
An award-winning child artist growing up in India, Ramanathan earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting with honors in 1993 and M.B.A in 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Publications of Chitra Ramanathan’s biography and images have been featured in Askart.com, Luxury Real Estate Magazine, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Who’s Who in America, International Contemporary Artists, Vol 1., the Indianapolis Business Journal, Indianapolis Monthly Home Magazine, Miami Art Scene Magazine in 2018, and the Art Guide Mag’s Artist Directory in 2020.
In recognition of her uniqueness and experience, Ramanathan was invited as Visiting Artist by the Head of the Royal Academy of Arts, London UK in 2005. for a visual presentation and student critiques at the Royal Academy of Arts Schools.
Mixed media and acrylic paintings in the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas since 2004, commissioned by MGM Resorts International.
Pair of Chitra Ramanathan’s signed paintings in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Ramanathan’s unique, intuitive style of painting is distinct with her treatment of fresh, bright colors executed with rapid brush strokes. Often combined with varied intricately interwoven textural materials interwoven into the paint rather than mere stand-alone collages, her work visually creates the aura of extending beyond their two-dimensional surfaces, frequently created in expansive scale, or as multi-paneled works with the concept of happiness and expression of joy, the theme of her ongoing body of work. They have been featured in venues including courthouses, hotels and prominent solo and group exhibitions or as specific commissioned projects. Her numerous originals have been acquired by private and business clients, auctions, and site-specific public art commissions including an installation of a pair of custom-created paintings at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in 2004 invited by MGM Resorts International.
Joyce Creamer explores Chitra Ramanathan's artistic journey.
Chitra Ramanathan Interviewed by Joyce Creiger, Natick TV Station, Boston area, MA
Please view latest interview via Podcast, published September 1, 2023.
URL: https://www.artistcloseup.com/blog/podcast-chitra-ramanathan
