Artist Talk: Pooja Pittie

Name: Artist Talk: Pooja Pittie
Start: 2025-09-06T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-06T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Intuit Art Museum

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Intuit Art Museum | Chicago, IL

Artist Pooja Pittie in conversation at Intuit Art Museum
About this Event

Artist Pooja Pittie, whose work is currently on view in , discusses her practice and work featured in the exhibition.

Free with museum admission. Registration required with limited tickets available. Visit https://art.org/plan-your-visit for more information about museum admission.

Pooja Pittie, American, born in Coimbatore, raised in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, 1977. We Build to Belong (detail), 2025. Site-specific installation with hand-knotted net, cords, readymade nets, crochet, knittings, discarded drawings, wrapped watercolor fragments, residual fiber and paper objects from artist’s studio, dimensions variable. Photo by Garrett Baumer

Meet Pooja Pittie

Pooja Pittie is a self-taught visual artist based in Chicago. Working with a disability, she explores the complex interplay between body and mind, movement and stillness. Raised in Mumbai, India, Pittie trained as an accountant and earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago before transitioning to a full-time art practice in 2016.

Pooja Pittie, American, born in Coimbatore, raised in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, 1977. Be In Softness (detail), 2024. Hand-knitted and crocheted vessels, mixed fibers and hidden notes written by the artist to herself, 30 x 96 x 18 in. Collection of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Access Notes

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