M.I.A.R.
In 2023, the Chicago Fine Art Salon launched MIAR for the community artists we love, to exhibit and sell their creations to Chicago art enthusiasts at Art City in Lincoln Park and on our website. Browse through our past installations or explore our collection of exquisite wall art available for purchase below.
Shanti Grandhi is currently a second year MFA Candidate in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was born in Arlington Heights, IL and lived in New York City before joining SAIC.
She also holds degrees from University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Harvard Business School.
See the work and come to her opening ceremony for “Framed Absence: A Lyrical Dance ,” opening on November 9th from 5 to 9 PM at 1400 N. Halsted Ave
*Photographer Credit: Emily Miller
Now Presenting:
Chicago Artist Shanti Grandhi’s “Framed Absence: A Lyrical Dance”
Her paintings are a meditation on narratives, how history gets written and how the language of paint makes meaning. Through mark making and color, she explores her relationship with culture, memory, time and space. Pulling fragments from a wide range of the art historical canon such from Indian miniature paintings to Tintoretto and Michael Armitage, she stitches together various experiences—lived, imagined, inherited and appropriated. She seeks to create sensations, feelings and movement and to find moments of rest amongst the motion.
