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; she lives and works between Colorado, New York City and Trinidad. Maharaj completed her BFA at the University of Colorado Boulder and her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received the Barbara De Genevieve Scholarship. Her work has been recognized with awards including Fellowships from: Vermont Studio Center, Fountainhead Residency and Virginia Center For Creative Arts.
Maharaj has exhibited at the 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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