Priya N. Green (b. 1986, New Jersey) is a Connecticut-based artist whose layered oil paintings inhabit the space between memory, imagination, and place. Drawing from her Indian heritage and her grandfather’s legacy as a Bollywood filmmaker, Green transforms fragments of remembered images into luminous, dream-like compositions.

Green received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Green has shown her work internationally at many institutions including the Jersey City Museum, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Zimmerli Art Museum, and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In 2023, Green had her first museum solo exhibition at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts at the Springfield Museums in Springfield, MA. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the international Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and a fellowship from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2023, Green’s work was featured in John Seed’s book More Disruption: Representation in Flux, a poignant survey of forty-three internationally acclaimed painters whose works address issues of realism within contemporary painting. Green’s work is collected both privately and in public institutions such as the Springfield Museums, University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Forbes Library, Western New England University and New England Public Media.

Green is an Assistant Professor in Painting & Foundations at Central Connecticut State University. Green lives and works in Connecticut with her husband, artist Andrae Green, and their three children.

Artist Statement

“I make highly saturated oil paintings depicting landscapes and portraits of India as a way to connect with my family and heritage. As my children get older, I want to preserve the legacy of storytelling that my late ajju (grandfather) told through the movies that he worked on as a Bollywood filmmaker in the 1980s. These paintings play on my sensory memories of childhood trips to India visiting Mumbai, Goa and Bangalore, mixed with my digital sensibilities as a millennial, and excerpts of found footage. I hope to bridge a gap that spans through generations, distance and time as way to remind me of my ajju’s world.” -Priya N. Green