Suji Kanneganti
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mentor: Kanneganti’s curatorial mentor is Elisabeth Agro, The Nancy M. McNeil Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts.
Srujana (Suji) Kanneganti is a multi-disciplinary artist and recent graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PaFA) in Philadelphia, with a focus on sculpture, installation, and painting. Before attending PaFA, she studied psychology and biology at Rutgers University, both of which still affect how she thinks about art, making, and the world.
Kanneganti hopes to utilize her varied background to broaden the curatorial lens as a means to foster deeper connections between artist, curator, and viewer; thus creating more meaningful art encounters in museums. She is passionate about using curation to bridge contemporary art to wider audiences beyond the art elite, utilizing interactivity and diversity to heighten conceptual accessibility (read: she hopes to correct the common art phenomena of: "I don't get it"). This reigned high priority in her fellowship work last year behind contemporary exhibition Designs for Different Futures, including an in-house library that was curated in collaboration with the public.
Prior to becoming a fellow, she worked with a non-profit art gallery, taught K-6 drawing classes, and educated at the Adventure Aquarium...all of which speak to eliciting passion in others.
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