Pooja Pittie is a visual artist who lives and works in Chicago.
Born and raised in India, she trained as an Accountant and moved to the U.S. in 1999. Â An MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business led her to a career in Finance and Entrepreneurship. Â In 2015, she decided to pursue her lifelong passion for art and made a career change to focus on painting full-time. Pittie has an incurable and progressive form of muscular dystrophy and her studio practice is based on the struggle for balance between a slow-moving body and an active mind. Pittie's paintings have been exhibited at venues such as Expo Chicago and Art Miami. She is represented by the McCormick Gallery in Chicago.
Image: Caught in the Middle of a Memory, Year: 2018, Dimensions: 40x40 inches, Medium: acrylic on canvas
(updated 2019)
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