[1] He has exhibited and performed all over the UK and internationally at venues including Site Gallery, Sheffield, England; Tate Modern, London, England; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany; Dance Academy (Tilburg), Tilburg, Netherlands; Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi, India;[1] La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain;[2] Brut Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria;[3] Abrons Arts Center, New York City, USA;[4] and City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[11] This was around the time of the Brixton and other riots,[12] and the peaks for organised racism and electoral success of the far-right (National Front General election results in May 1979).

He had a variety of jobs including stacking shelves in supermarkets, as a go-go dancer in various nightclubs and as a photographic and artist's model.

– Fine Art Visiting Speaker Forum[25](Video installation) "A short film about narcissism, identity, self-image, internal reflection and loss."

In the final sequence, Chakravarthi slips into a slinky corset and... we see him confidently seducing inebriated men, having progressed from housewife to hooker in three easy stages."

– Mary Paterson[48]″George Chakravarthi's dance performance in which he transforms from an ape to a chorus girl, skewering the histories of racism, evolution and exhibitionism in one long, seductive move″ – Mary Paterson[60](Photographic – comprises 13 separate images) Royal Shakespeare Company "Suicide might be the theme but it is difficult not to feel uplifted by the beauty of these images."

(Site-specific, multi-media project - video, sound and photography ) Nomad Projects (Performance installation) Duckie (Photograph) In 2003 Chakravarthi was involved in the Live Art Development Agency's "Live Culture" event[111] at Tate Modern, contributing to Guillermo Gómez-Peña's collaboration.

[112] On 22 October 2024 at the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2024, held at Kensington Palace, the keynote event was "In conversation with George Chakravarthi - discussion facilitated by Richard Sandell".

He and his husband have been together since January 1994, they were legally married at Chelsea Old Town Hall, King's Road, London in May 2006 (their civil partnership having later been converted into marriage).