Chintia Kirana
Born
Chintia Agustina Kirana

(1987-08-11) 11 August 1987
Jakarta, Indonesia
EducationSouthern Illinois University (MFA)
Years active2011-present
AwardsVerdant Fund/ Andy Warhol Regranting Program Grant (2022), Alabama State Art Council Fellowship (2019), Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant(2011),
Websitechintiakirana.com

Chintia Kirana received a BA in painting from Auburn University Montgomery and an MFA in painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University. Kirana is best known for her abstract and minimalistic work exploring identity, passage of time, and spirituality. Her art practice includes curatorial projects and socially engaged community arts.[1]

Biography

Kirana was born in Jakarta, Indonesia.

She served as the art director for the Indonesian movie The Architecture of Love (2024).[2]

Career

Kirana's projects often explore themes of collective identity and are marked by collaboration and active participation.[3]

In 2018 Marian Liou received a grant from KaBOOM! Play Everywhere Challenge "to do a project that would get kids moving and be active. Buford Highway doesn’t have a lot of parks and places to gather and play safely".[4]

The result was BuHi Lights, a temporary art installation in Pinetree Plaza featuring large-scale illuminated inflatables sculptures from four Atlanta-based women artists of color: Dianna Settles, Mónica Campana, InKyoung Chun and Chintia Kirana. “I imagine my designs as multiple community groups,” says Kirana, who comes from Jakarta, Indonesia. Buford Highway holds a special place for her. Her piece is inspired by a combination of traditional Indonesian batik patterns and western patterns. She hopes the project reminds “children how beautiful their differences are. The variety of these patterns together creates a dynamic composition — just as diversity in a group builds stronger community.”[5]

Kirana is a content creator and AP Studio Art reader with the AP College Board. She also taught visual arts at Auburn University Montgomery and Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. Kirana serves on the board of trustees of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.[6]

Chintia Kirana is the founder of "Expose Art," an art magazine, and "ArtHouse," an artist-run arts residency as well as co-founded "Montgomery Arts Projects (MAP)," an organization that fosters artistic exchange by bringing artists from the United States and abroad to Montgomery. Through MAP, Kirana has created numerous community art projects such as Inside Out Project, which plastered portraits of thousands of Montgomerians on the One Dexter Plaza building in the heart of downtown Montgomery.[7] She participated in the Little Amal Walk With Amal US Tour project in Montgomery, Alabama [8] as the artistic director for her project called "Some Broken Things Can Be Mended."

Exhibitions

Chintia Kirana's has appeared in galleries and museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including:

  • Alabama Triennial Invitational Exhibit at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts [9]
  • Uncommon Territory Exhibit at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts [10]
  • Frequent Goodbyes at H-Space in Washington, DC [11]
  • Between Heaven and Earth at Wiregrass Museum [3]
  • This is Me, curated by Dashboard at Kress on Dexter in Montgomery, Alabama [12]

Media references and appearances

Kirana was a guest on a television show Expressions. [13] She is included in the Alabama Public Television Show called Monograph winter 2021 Edition [14]


References

  1. ↑ "Chintia Kirana at the Wiregrass Museum of Art". Burnaway. June 3, 2021.
  2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29560417/fullcredits/?ref_=ttpl_ql_1
  3. 1 2 Art, Wiregrass Museum of (June 4, 2020). "WMA Artist Interview with Chintia Kirana". Wiregrass Museum of Art.
  4. ↑ Wells, Myrydd (2018-11-01). "Inflatable installations will light up Buford Highway's Pinetree Plaza". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  5. ↑ Sorto, Gabrielle (October 30, 2018). "Artists seek to create sense of welcome and play on Buford Highway with BuHi Lights". Arts Atlanta.
  6. ↑ "'Art connects us': Community Hero Chintia Kirana sees endless opportunity in Montgomery". Montgomery Advertiser.
  7. ↑ Harper, Brad. "'This is us now': Developing Montgomery's giant portrait project and what it says about the city". Montgomery Advertiser.
  8. ↑ https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/alabama/2023/10/10/little-amal-puppet-visiting-montgomery-during-alabama-tour-this-week/71031738007/
  9. ↑ "Chintia Kirana". UAB Arts Alliance.
  10. ↑ "Uncommon Territory". MMFA.
  11. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/03/31/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/
  12. ↑ Harper, Brad. "'Confessional': Montgomery finds a new united voice inside Kress". Montgomery Advertiser.
  13. ↑ "Expressions | Expressions 601 | Episode 601 | PBS" – via www.pbs.org.
  14. ↑ "Winter 2021 | Watch on Alabama Public Television".
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