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Contemporary Art Gallery — Made in India, Established in the United States
A global platform for abstract art — built for artists shaped by hybridity, spiritual searching, migration, trauma, and myth.
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Founder & Director — Chetna Ayyagari
Born in Hyderabad and raised in the U.S. from the age of four, Chetna Ayyagari has spent her life on the American East Coast. Growing up across Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, she began her artistic path in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Dance taught her devotion, rigor, and storytelling — how her body could become a museum holding the language and tradition of her ancestors.
She attended the Cambridge School of Weston and later worked at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, where a course in intellectual property law sparked her interest in transcultural art business. Driven to reconnect with her origins, she moved to India to study dance and worked on nonprofit projects supporting artisan-led fashion brands.
Returning to the United States, now in recovery, Chetna stepped into advocacy, storytelling, and creative patronage. She is building Chetna Gallery as a global platform for abstract art — especially for artists shaped by hybridity, spiritual searching, migration, trauma, and myth. For her, the gallery is not just a space, but a lived philosophy: art as survival, art as trance, art as testimony.