Meera George born in Chennai, hails from Kerala, South India. Alumni of Delhi college of Art and Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK; Meera predominantly works in mediums of Mixed media, installation and performance art that she exhibits internationally. Recipient of eight international grants and residencies, her work is sensitive to cross-cultural feminist issues, at the same time strongly autobiographical through the use of her own body and objects from her culture as actors and props in her works.
In 2008, George presented her solo exhibition titled ‘Partum Subvertio’ (To bear, to destroy), commenting on the prevailing issue of female infanticide in India. The same year George was awarded a grant by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, where she was commissioned to create an installation and performance art work for the museum titled ‘Onnagata’ eluding to the role of women in Japanese culture.