garima thakur is a friend, queer pressure cooker, interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator who is all over the place. She was raised during the 80’s and 90’s in New Delhi, India, a country forever recovering from a colonial hangover--teetering between an aspirational western identity and a nationalistic one. To help soothe the hangover, she moved to the United States in 2008. Over the last 14 years she has merged installation, video, code, and text to make the bureaucratic structures of immigration visible, and critique the alienation they impart.
garima looks up to Black feminism as a way to crack open the problems of Indian respectability politics, and more deeply understand gender, technology, sexuality, and queerness in her practice. She loves to share meals together and wishes you would hit her up for some snax. Her work has received support from organizations like the Ford Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Khoj, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
