On the occasion of Anoushka Mirchandani: Everyone You Love Lives Here, FLAG will host a discussion with artist Anoushka Mirchandani and Grace Edquist, moderated by Director Jonathan Rider.
Wednesday, June 3, 6-8 PM; discussion will begin at 6:30 PM
RSVP here.
About:
Anoushka Mirchandani (b. 1988, Pune, India) uses painting as a form of agency—an ongoing process of locating and relocating identity across shifting contexts. After emigrating from India to the United States at 18, she discovered new freedoms while confronting the complexities of belonging and loss. Over the past decade, she has cultivated a visual language that mirrors this interplay of concealment and revelation, expressing the layered nature of selfhood. Her paintings center on figures suspended between repose and action—often women posed with quiet confidence, unbothered by expectations of modesty or restraint. Their bodies dissolve into surrounding forms, delineated only by gestures of oil stick or pastel. The tension between bold poses and vanishing contours evokes questions of visibility and vulnerability: what parts of ourselves do we suppress, and what do we allow to emerge in unfamiliar spaces? Mirchandani’s debut institutional exhibition, My Body Was A River Once, is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San José through August 23, 2026. She has presented solo exhibitions at Yossi Milo (New York, 2024); Galerie Isa (Mumbai, 2023); UTA Artist Space (Los Angeles, 2023); Rhodes Contemporary (London, 2021); and Glass Rice Gallery (San Francisco, 2020). Her film Landscapes of Longing screened at MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films (2025). Her work is held in the collections of the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Museum of Art and Photography (Bangalore), and Northwestern University (Chicago). She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Silver Art Projects (New York). In August of 2026 Mirchandani will be included in Never The Same River, curated by Dexter Wimberly, at the Ford Foundation, New York.
Grace Edquist is a New York–based arts and culture writer and the copy director of Vogue magazine. Her writing often focuses on the lives and work of women artists. She has been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, T, and ARTnews, among other publications.
Image Credits: Portrait of Anoushka Mirchandani. Photography Daniel Greer