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Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice interweaves live art, drawing, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on identity and its construction, autobiography and authorship, the pose and self-portraiture. His work reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Nikhil combines everyday life, momory and collective history; daily acts such as eating, resting, washing and dressing, but also drawing and making clothes, become the process of making an artwork, becoming an essential part of the show. 

Nikhil’s performances on the international art and theater scene began in 2008, when the artist was invited to contribute to Time Crevasse (Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama), kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Making Worlds (53rd Venice Biennale), Performa (New Museum New York) and Marina Abramovic Presents (Manchester International Festival, The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester). After his one year research fellowship at Interweaving Perfomance Cultures, Frei Unversität Berlin in 2011, his work took him back to the Whitworth Art Gallery to make a solo project for the 2013 Manchester International Festival where he received critical acclaim for his performance “Coal on Cotton”. Between 2014 and 2017 he performed at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, Bienal de la Habana, the 12th Sharjah Biennial and documenta 14. In 2019 he presented a nine days long solo performance titled “Lands, Waters and Skies” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Nikhil Chopra was born in Kolkata in 1974, and lives in Goa. After studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayaji Rao University in Baroda, India, the artist continued his studies in the United States in 2003 to return to India in 2005 with a Masters from Ohio State University.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

FIRE - solo show, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Paris, FR

2022

DANCING WITH MYSELF, 6-hours performance, Asia Now, Paris, FR

2021

REMEMBERING BEING THERE, GALLERIA CONTINUA / San Gimignano, IT

2019

LANDS, WATERS, AND SKIES, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US

DRAWING A LINE THROUGH LANDSCAPE, GALLERIA CONTINUA / San Gimignano, IT

2017

DRAWING A LINE THROUGH LANDSCAPE dOCUMENTA 14, Athens - Kassel

Blackening VI: Engine No. 3157, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK

2016

DRUMSOLO AT THE MILL Galleria Continua / Les Moulins, France

FLOATING CITIES & LOADED DICE 3 hour performance with Uriel Barthélémi, Gare du Nord, Paris

2015

USE LIKE WATER 9 days performance, 12th Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, UAE

LA PERLA NEGRA: Plaza de Armas 60 hours performance, Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

2014

LA PERLE NOIRE KOCHI BIENNALE performance Level One, gb agency, Paris

2013

BLACKENING V Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi

COAL ON COTTON Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester International Festival, Manchester

2012

INSIDE OUT Galleria Continua / San Gimignano, Italy

BLACKENING IV: BAY 19 Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

2010

YOG RAJ CHITRAKAR: MEMORY DRAWING X Chatterjee and Lal Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai and Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

2009

YOG RAJ CHITRAKAR: MEMORY DRAWING IX New Museum, New York

2007

YOG RAJ CHITRAKAR: MEMORY DRAWING II Chattterjee and Lal Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai

2005

SIR RAJA III The Fourth Floor, Kitab Mahal, Fort, Mumbai

2003

SIR RAJA II Kinnear Warehouse, Columbus, Ohio

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Indigo Waves and Other Stories. Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE

2022

HAZE - Contemporary Art From South Asia, Fondazione Elpis, Milan, IT

A Century of The Artist's Studio: 1920-2020, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

2019

SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), USA

Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Kettle's yard, University of Cambridge, UK

2018

Sensorium, Goa, IN

D/CODE, Mumbai, IN

Fire Water, 2018, Yinchuan Biennale, CH

2017

Bhairav, New North and South, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK

2016

The Black Pearl: The City From the River, Alchemy, Southbank Centre, London, UK

2015

Follia Continua! 25 years of GALLERIA CONTINUA CENTQUATRE, Paris, France

Use Like Water, Sharjah Biennial 12, Sharjah, UAE

La Perla Negra: Plaza Di Armas, La Bienal de Habana, Havana, CU

2014

DHAKA ART SUMMIT Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka

2013

REBIRTH OF DETAIL Sunaparanta Center for the Arts, Goa

PERFORMANCE NOW The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

SHAKTI Meadow Arts and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton

2012

DECIMO PARALLELO NORD: FOTOGRAFIA CONTEMPORANEA DA INDIA E SUDAMERICA Fondazione Fotografia Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena

INSIDE OUT: AS THE STARS VIEWED THE PALACE Finding Time, Columbus Public Art 2012, Columbus, Ohio

2011

H BOX Art Sonje, Seoul; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

IN INDIA AND FAR BEYOND: KHOJ INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS’ ASSOICIATION Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen IFA Gallery, Stuttgart and Berlin

GENERATION IN TRANSITION: NEW ART FROM INDIA Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

LIBERALIS Kunst + Projecte Sindelfingen, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Stuutgart

BEYOND THE SELF National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

PARIS DELHI BOMBAY Centre Pompidou, Paris

2010

PRODUCTION SITE: THE ARTIST’S STUDIO INSIDE-OUT Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

THE LAND BETWEEN US: POWER, PLACE AND DISLOCATION Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2009

MARINA ABRAMOVIC PRESENTS Manchester International Festival, The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

MAKING WORLDS 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 09 Brussels

THE SELF AND THE OTHER. PORTRAITURE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY Espai 2 - Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona

INDIAN HIGHWAY Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo

2008

INDIAN HIGHWAY Serpentine Gallery, London

CHALO INDIA! Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

TIME CREVASSE 2008 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama

EVERYWHERE IS WAR Bodhi Art, Mumbai

EMERGING DISCOURSES II Bodhi Art, New York, New York

IN NEW YORK CITY Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai presents at Thomas Erben, New York, New York

KHOJ LIVE 08, INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi

2007

POSING, ABRONS ART CENTER Henry Street Settlement, New York, New York

HOUSE OF MIRRORS Grosvenor Vadhera Gallery, London

BEINGS AND DOINGS, BRITISH COUNCIL Queen’s Gallery, British Council, New Delhi

2006

ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK, ASIA SOCIETY, NEW YORK Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

2005

MAURIZIO COULDN'T BE HERE: THE TASTE OF OTHERS Apexart, 291 Church Street, New York, New York

2004

CONTEMPORANEITY, INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART IN KYRGYZSTAN G. Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Residences

2022

ART EXPLORA, Paris, FR

2012

FELLOWSHIP International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures”, Freie Universität, Berlin

2011

FELLOWSHIP International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures”, Freie Universität, Berlin

2010

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle

2009

RESIDENCY AND REFLECTION Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels

2007

INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART RESIDENCY, KHOJ Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi

KHOJ KASHEER, SRINAGAR, KASHMIR Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi