George Chakravarthi

George Chakravarthi is a multidisciplinary artist utilizing and adopting alternative personae and strategies as a mechanism to reconstruct definitions of gender, cultural identity and sexuality within live performances, photographs and video installations. Chakravarthi considers much of his work to be a series of self-portraits drawing inspiration from concepts of heritage, cinema, art history, public and private spaces and collective social and cultural histories. He has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally from venues as diverse as The Site Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Modern, The Victoria and Albert Museum (all UK) Mousonturm (Germany), Kunstnanken (Norway), The Queens Gallery (India) to museums and other public sites.