Prerana Reddy
Associate Consultant
Prerana is an independent cultural producer based in New York City working at the intersection of art, civic engagement, and social movements. She is currently a member of Creative Time's 1st Think Tank cohort which will be exploring new methodologies to dismantle exclusionary and colonialist modes of artistic creation and presentation. Through 2020, Prerana collaborated with AK Cultural Planning on the development of a Public Art Vision for the Trust for Governors Island.
She was most recently the Director of Programs at A Blade of Grass, a nonprofit that advances the field of socially engaged art through financial support for artists, public programming, research, and content creation. Previously, she was the Director of Public Programs & Community Engagement for the Queens Museum from 2005–2018 where she organized both exhibition-related and community-based programs with such renowned artists as Tania Bruguera, Damon Rich, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Mel Chin, Los Angeles Poverty Department, and Pedro Reyes. Her tenure at the Queens Museum was characterized by a deep relationship to local communities and cultural producers. She hired full time community organizers to develop such programs as an intensive arts and social justice program for immigrant youth, and a multi-year popular education center and community development initiative for Corona, Queens residents, many of whom are new immigrants with mixed status families and limited English language proficiency.
She has also curated “Fatal Love”, an exhibition of South Asian American Contemporary Art, as well commissioned two editions of “Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere,” Queens Museum’s socially-interactive public art projects.
Prerana has her MA in Cinema Studies & Anthropology and a Certificate in Culture & Media from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; and a BS in Biology from Duke University. She participated in the Asian Pacific Leadership Program at University of Hawaii’s East-West Center and was a Ford Foundation Douglass Redd Fellow in Arts & Community Development.