Born in Bombay India, Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to NYC in 1984. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and has continued to intertwine art and activism in her career. Abichandani has shown her work internationally including P.S.1/ MOMA, the Queens Museum of Art, and Exit Art in New York, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Avanthay Contemporary in Zurich, the Castle of Good Hope in Capetown, Gallery Chemould, Nature Morte and Gallery Sumukha in India. She has also curated a number of exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, Exit Art and the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida. She is the Founder and Director of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC) and the Asian Women's Creative Collective, London.