1. George Chakravarthi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, video, painting and performance.
17 Facts About George Chakravarthi
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George Chakravarthi was born in India and moved to London, England in 1980.
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George Chakravarthi studied at the University of Brighton, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art.
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George Chakravarthi was born in New Delhi, India on 26 November 1969 to parents with origins in Tamil Nadu, India and British Burma.
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George Chakravarthi's parents considered the education of their children a priority, so the family lived very modestly in order for him and his siblings to be privately educated while in India.
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George Chakravarthi attended St Columba's School, Delhi, an English-medium school run by a Roman Catholic brotherhood.
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In 1980, George Chakravarthi moved with his family to the UK.
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George Chakravarthi continued his education at St Patrick's Primary School and St Paul's Secondary School in south London, both Roman Catholic, multi-cultural schools.
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George Chakravarthi began documenting his reactions to his new environment and his changing identity through writing and drawing, and then making photographic self-portraits.
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George Chakravarthi left home at the age of 16 and eventually settled in a modest flat in Greenwich, London.
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George Chakravarthi had a variety of jobs including stacking shelves in supermarkets, as a go-go dancer in various nightclubs and as a photographic and artist's model.
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George Chakravarthi attended a short course in photography at the Thames Independent Photography Project where his interest in photography and particularly making self-portraits was encouraged.
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George Chakravarthi obtained a first-class Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Performance Art.
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George Chakravarthi received an award from Nagoya University for outstanding artistic achievement.
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George Chakravarthi started his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and, after taking a year out, he completed his Master of Arts at the Royal College of Art in 2003.
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In 2003 George Chakravarthi was involved in the Live Art Development Agency's "Live Culture" event at Tate Modern, contributing to Guillermo Gomez-Pena's collaboration.
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On 22 October 2024 at the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2024, held at Kensington Palace, the keynote event was "In conversation with George Chakravarthi - discussion facilitated by Richard Sandell".