Beyonce Knowles & Indrani in Vogue Magazine
President of COP19, Minister of Environment Colombia,
“Across Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri’s body of work, from film and photography to philanthropy and social activism, she uses art as a means of processing and reflecting upon questions of self and society, justice and hope, history and myth... Indrani finds a singular thread and invites viewers to feel tugged and sometimes even lashed at by the thing that would have been invisible to most other eyes... I love the resourcefulness at work in what Indrani does... not just because what she creates is beautiful, but because in operating as it does, her work urges a viewer to acknowledge that a question like whether to protect the oceans, is one that can be approached not just with the intellect or even with the moral conscience, but also by calling upon unusual capacities, like passion, attraction, grief, and a real urge to be carried away, lost, overtaken, transformed. These are natural human feelings that live most of the time corralled into just one region of the self, but when they are invited in, they make a social or political question one that can be explored with the totality of oneself."
- Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States & Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. Introducing Indrani's keynote at the Princeton Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium, October 2018.
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Described as "A leading director and voice for women's empowerment," Indrani receives the Disruptive Innovator Award at Tribeca Film Festival
Art awakes the infinite, scales spiraling paths—to play through dark wilds, to weave and to spark.
To seed ancient wisdom through future kin’s call: light can’t be bargained, it’s born in us all. -- Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
BIO (short)
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri is a Princeton lecturer, Tribeca Disruptive Innovator, Cannes Gold Lion winner, and UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Fellow whose award-winning films and global campaigns—shortlisted for an Oscar and viewed over two billion times—mobilize ancestral wisdom, innovation, and Indigenous leadership for justice and planetary regeneration.
Regenerative Futurist, Filmmaker, Founder
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri is an award-winning director and cultural transformer whose poetic storytelling fuses cutting-edge science, Indigenous wisdom, and cultural diplomacy to catalyze systems change for the green transition. Her upcoming feature documentary, The Regeneration Generation is the centerpiece of a global campaign for green innovation, biodiversity, justice, and intergenerational resilience. The film spotlights scientists, artists, forest guardians, business and spiritual leaders co-creating scalable solutions for regeneration, climate resilience, and intergenerational equity.
Raised with Mother Teresa and the Ramakrishna Mission, Indrani’s immersion in humanitarian values shaped a lifelong commitment to dignity, equity, and ecological renewal. She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she lectures on Mobilizing Millions with Art and Film.
A cultural transformer, she addresses humanity's grand challenges by shifting public consciousness and mobilizing movements for a more just and regenerative future. She co-founded SEEschool.org, now the Shakti Regeneration Institute (SRI) empowering women, Indigenous and frontline communities through regenerative education, biodiversity stewardship, and systems leadership. As a founder of Open Origin, she advances energy security and sustainable supercomputing, as key pillars of the green transition.
Mentored by long-term collaborator David Bowie, she launched Beyonce and Lady Gaga, then redirected her platform to drive social impact through storytelling. Her films and campaigns have earned over 40 international honors, including two Cannes Gold Lions, a Tribeca Disruptive Innovator Award, and global reach exceeding 2 billion people. Indrani began her creative journey as an internationally successful model, actress, and image-maker for over 300 global brands, as founder of Double Exposure Studios. Featured in Vogue, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and VICE, Indrani's work is exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian DC, Lincoln Center, Centre Pompidou Paris, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Australian Center for the Moving Image.
A Semifinalist in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition, Indrani led a diverse global team of innovators and indigenous experts developing bioeconomies and technologies to protect biodiversity—now extended through the Amazon Bio-Cultural Bond, a first-of-its-kind blended finance tool developed in collaboration with Indigenous leaders, UN agencies, and global partners. She serves as a Women's Entrepreneurship Distinguished Fellow at the United Nations and Convener of the Science Summit at the UNGA, advocating for inclusive finance, ancestral knowledge, and planetary regeneration.
Backed by a superstar production team with global broadcast and festival experience, The Regeneration Generation is a feature-length documentary with a 360° transmedia strategy, including an educational toolkit, immersive art experiences, and policy-linked screenings. Distribution partners and pre-sale discussions are underway with impact-focused global platforms.
With a unique ability to unite government, business, indigenous communities, and pop culture, Indrani leads from the intersection of storytelling, clean technology, and systems leadership—inviting partners to participate in a cinematic movement accelerating the green transition and shaping a just, regenerative future.
Mobilizing Movements for Climate Solutions with Art, Film, & New Media (click here to watch): Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri interviewed by Rhett Butler, Mongabay founder and CEO, shares a glimpse into her work to advance indigenous and women-led climate tech solutions on the main stage at Sun Valley Forum.
Quincy Jones presents Indrani with the CNN Expose Award, 2018.
"Riveting, shocking and touching, Indrani's direction is brilliant and provocative."
- Scott Goodson, Forbes
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"Wielding her visionary work like a weapon, Indrani is using her art and resources for justice and change."
- Zee Chang, Soma
"Trailblazer and visionary: high-concept and hyper-realism commingle in the work of Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri."
- Kimberly Jones, The Austin Chronicle
"Among the first female artists of color in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection, [Indrani's work explores] metaphysical & sociological meaning."
- Mary Thompson Frenck, Embrace
(Image: Beyonce Knowles by Markus & Indrani)
“I seek to challenge, enthrall and inspire audiences with transformative storytelling, powerful diverse characters, unforgettable imagery, and psycho-social understanding. My approach is as a collaborator, thriving on flexibility and fun to engage the team. My aesthetic is hyperreal, encouraging authenticity and dimensional performances, embracing fantasy sculpting with light, nature, and unconventional compositions. My vision mixes the gritty rawness of my Girl Epidemic with the magical realism of Legend of Lady White Snake for a quixotic, danger and hope-filled dream-scape that reflects the characters’ inner life. To provoke viewers to laugh, cry and to hope, to join our protagonists in finding their own potential and inspire them to transform themselves and humanity.”
- Indrani
(Image: David Bowie and Indrani)
BIO (LONG VERSION)
Indian-Canadian-British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist, known mononymously as Indrani, is a “leading director and voice for female empowerment” (Tribeca Film Festival), a photographer, and social justice advocate.
Known for her “iconic imagery and visionary storytelling” (Huffington Post), exploring avant-garde intertextual surrealism, the Lincoln Center presented her major exhibition "ICONS" describing her work as "Dynamic...at the crossroads of pop culture and critical acclaim." Indrani is also co-founder of SEEschool.org, and a lecturer at Princeton University on "Moving Millions to Action."
Indrani is Co-Host of the Global People’s Summit during the General Assembly at the United Nations, democratizing access to conversations and information that shape the world; UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Distinguished Fellow; Host of New York Live Arts - AI Live Ideas Gala.
"Indrani's vast experience and unique sensibility makes her one of the most sought-after professional visual artists in the world... Indrani moves through the world with diplomacy and grace and it's no surprise that celebrities the world over have trusted her... She's a fine role model... balancing the glamour and gloss of her professional life with philanthropy."
- Paul Sunday, New York Film Academy
"At the forefront of contemporary photography" - NOWNESS
While a student of Anthropology at Princeton University, Indrani was discovered and mentored by Iman and David Bowie, who commissioned her first book cover for I am Iman, and her first album art for Heathen, on Bowie's loss of faith in grand narratives after 9/11. Bowie later launched her directorial debut with the music video for his Valentine’s Day, exploring the mind of a high school mass shooter, which was featured in the HBO Movie Bowie: the Last 5 Years.
(Image: Lady Gaga with Indrani & GK Reid)
Indrani has empowered some of the world’s most legendary artists, including helping launch the solo careers of Beyonce and Lady Gaga, creating their debut album art for Dangerously in Love and The Fame (Collector's Edition) respectively. She put celebrities in coffins, including Kim Kardashian, Usher, Serena Williams and Elijah Woods for Digital Death, raising awareness and millions of dollars against AIDS in Africa and India for Keep A Child Alive, and many other projects for social good.
Featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair and VICE, and published in 23 books, Indrani's work is exhibited in museums including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Center Pompidou Paris, The Rubin Museum of Art NY, The Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Museum at the Fashion Institute and The Australian Center for the Moving Image.
Her videos have over 70 million views online, and she has created images and commercials for over 300 international brands including Pepsi, Nike, Lancome, and L’Oreal. Regularly interviewed for CNN, HBO, E! News and Showbiz Tonight, she is invited to speak at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Centre Pompidou, Princeton, New York University and Harvard University.
(Image: Lady Gaga by Markus & Indrani)
EARLY LIFE: Born in Kolkata and raised volunteering with Mother Teresa, Indrani experienced the power of change that the tiniest of people can bring. Eager to learn from the top artists of the world, she became an international teen model-actor. At 18 she returned for a 6-month solo journey across India, and co-founded Shakti Empowerment Education, SEEschool.org providing education, vocational training and micro-financing for 300 socio-economically disadvantaged women and children annually in West Bengal. She met classical harpist Markus Klinko and they began their professional careers together as the photography duo known as Markus + Indrani.
Indrani received a scholarship to Princeton University, where she reinstated Sanskrit and spearheaded a student movement to create a South Asian Studies Program, founded the Eastern Philosophical Discussion Group, and graduated with a Magna Cum Laude BA in Anthropology, while advancing her photography and digital art career.
(Image: Indrani speaks at Harvard, Kennedy School)
ADVOCACY: "Indrani is internationally recognized for her extensive work on social causes... Empowering young girls to become powerful agents of change" (Huffington Post).
"Wildly creative... Indrani changes the fate of forgotten girls... She is fighting to give girls a better future." -Abigail Pesta, The Daily Beast
EDUCATOR AND SPEAKER: United Nations, HBO, BBC, TEDx, Davos WEF, CogX, Sun Valley, Poptech, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Center Georges Pompidou, Host of the Accutron Show. SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
BRAVO (NBC) DOCU-SERIES DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Indrani was the subject of a 6-part docu-series on US primetime Bravo/ NBC TV. Featuring her creative process, the humor and challenges of working with stars such as Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, and Lindsay Lohan, along with designer / producer GK Reid and her photographic ex-partner, Markus Klinko. Syndicated to 200 countries.
PUBLICATIONS: The New York Times, Huffington Post, LA Times, London Sunday Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar, V, Vanity Fair and VICE.
FEATURED ON: CNN, HBO, Access Hollywood, Extra! Inside Edition, E! News, America’s Next Top Model, Larry King Live, VH1’s Short List, Fashion Television, The “It” Factor, CBS, USA Today, and Showbiz Tonight.
CLIENTS: Pepsi, Nike, Barney’s New York, LVMH, Lancome, Elizabeth Arden, MAC, L’Oreal Paris, Shiseido, Pantene, Head & Shoulders Herbal Essences, Remy Martin, Sky Blue, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Wolford, Girard Perregaux, Anna Sui, Baume et Mercier, DeBeers, Epson, Broncolor, Mattel, Hello Kitty, Jaguar CLIENT LIST
EXHIBITIONS: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, The Victor & Albert Museum UK, The Brooklyn Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Lincoln Center, Museum of the Fashion Institute, Rubin Museum of Art, The Australian Center for the Moving Image.
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