Born in Bombay, India, Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to New York City in 1984. She received her Master of Visual Arts Degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London and has continued to intertwine art and activism in her career, founding the South Asian Women's Creative Collective, (www.sawcc.org), in New York (1997) and London (2004).  She has exhibited her work internationally at various venues including P.S.1/MOMA, the Guangzhou Triennial and the Beijing 798 Biennial in China, Nature Morte, & Gallery Chemould in India, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, the IVAM in Valencia, as well as Canada and the Caribbean, Mexico, South Africa Cape, Korea, Switzerland and the UK. Abichandani has been the recipient of the Enfoco New Works Photography Award and the Urban Artists Award. She has curated several exhibitions including Sultana's Dream at Exit Art and Anomalies at Rossi and Rossi in London. Jaishri served as the Founding Director of Public Events and Projects from 2003-6 at the Queens Museum of Art where she co- curated Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now and Queens International 2006 Everything All at Once.