About the Artist
Renluka Maharaj utilizes sourced photographs, textiles, sculpture, research, and travel to create mixed media compositions that investigate how history, migration, memory, religion, and gender inform identity in general and that of her family in particular. The artist’s family lineage can be traced back to India during the 19th century, when forced indentured servitude replaced African slave labor on sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean.
She was born in Trinidad & Tobago, and lives and works between Colorado, New York City, and Trinidad. Maharaj completed her BFA at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015 and her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 where she received the Barbara De Genevieve Scholarship. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Ankhlave Garden Project. She has held residencies at Fountainhead, Virginia Center For Creative Arts, The Golden Art Foundation, and the McColl Art Center Residency in North Carolina.
Maharaj has exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Mattatuck Museum, McColl Center, South Asia Institute, Avery Research Center, Whitebox Gallery, Rule Gallery, Colorado Fine Arts Center, Project for Empty Space, and Akron Art Museum.
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