Neha Choksi

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BIO

In work across and beyond performance, moving image, and sculpture, Neha Choksi probes lived experiences that negotiate relationships in unconventional settings. Harnessing stone to plant, animal to friends, publics to philosophy, Choksi’s materially bound art engages the terms of our existence in ways personal and planetary.

Choksi's work has been widely exhibited, screened or performed in the United States, Asia, Australia, UK, and Europe. Exhibition venues include the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi (2024; 2023; 2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2023; 2020; live, 2018; 2016); The Box Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Galerie Barbara Thumm / New Viewings, Berlin (solo, 2021); Kleefeld Contemporary Museum, Long Beach, CA (solo, 2021); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (solo, 2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2020); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (solo, 2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Manchester Art Gallery, UK (solo, 2017); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (solo, 2017); 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (solo, 2015); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (live, 2022; 2013); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (3-person, 2012); Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2012); Shanghai Biennale (2012); Wanås Foundation and Kristianstads Konsthall, Sweden (2012); 10th La Biennale Di Venezia for Architecture (2006). 

Recent honors include the Amant Siena Studio & Research Residency (2023), the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship (2021), the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019), and the India Today Best New Media Artist of the Year Award (2017).  Choksi’s work is in notable collections worldwide including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA; Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany; Queensland Gallery of Art / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane; University of Southampton, UK; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; Samdani Art Foundation, Bangladesh; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi; Devi Art Foundation, India. A monograph on a single artwork, Dismantling, was published in 2018.

Choksi has long served on the editorial board of the Los Angeles-based arts journal, X-TRA, and co-edits Mimesis: Film as Performance Magazine. Choksi received a double BA in Greek and in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Classics from Columbia University.  Choksi lives and works in Los Angeles and Bombay, India.

 

2024
Porous Earth, Project 88, Mumbai

2021
Urgency and Longing, New Viewings platform, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
The Weight of the Cave, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
Uncertain Allies, Kleefeld Contemporary, California State University, Long Beach

2018
Elementary, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
Every Kind of Sun, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

2017
Faith in friction, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Dismantling, LAMOA, Los Angeles
Liberty Matter, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles

2016
Stone Breath Mountain Dust, Project 88, Frieze London
Save the translation for later, Project 88, Mumbai

2015
Minds to Lose, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London

2013
Iceboat and Sky Fold, Project 88, Mumbai

2010
If nothing else, just a smile, Project 88, Mumbai
Recent Video Works, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles

2009
don’t hold it in breathe out, Project 88, Mumbai

2007
Who is in town anyway?, Project 88, Mumbai

2005
Gravity’s Playthings, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
Homeless Encounters, Carl Berg Gallery at Scope NY, New York

2002
Renouncing the World, Bir Dukkan: Sanat Mekanı, Istanbul
The American President Travels (East), Block Gallery, Sydney

2001
Floral Futures, The Fine Arts Company Gallery, Mumbai
 

2024
Mirror / Maze: echoes of song, space, spectre II, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, NOIDA

2023
Mirror / Maze: echoes of song, space, spectre, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi
Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Very Small Feelings, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi
To Enter the Sky, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
Very Small Feelings, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

2022
Knees, Schools, Urges, The Box Gallery, Los Angeles
how we are in time and space: Annotations, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Tracing Echoes, Project 88, Mumbai, India

2021
City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Not an Imitation, Project 88, Mumbai

2020
Every Soiled Page, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai
Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
Suñnatā Samānta: Emptiness Equality, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
Games of Chance, Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts, India

2019
Making Space, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2018
Delirium/Equilibrium, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi
measuring with a bent ruler, Actual Size, Los Angeles
Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2017
Between Nothingness and Infinity, Navel Gallery, Los Angeles
Floating World, Art Bahrain
On Monotony: Meditations in Video Art, Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Ours is a City of Writers II, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
Deliberated Time, Sunaparanta Centre for the Arts, Goa

2016
Back to the Land, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
8688, Project 88, Mumbai
Temporal Turn, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
The Missing One, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo
Into View, Queensland Art Gallery, QAGOMA, Brisbane
The Future is Already Here—It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney
A Global Perspective on Photography, Dubai Design District, Photo Dubai
The Story of the Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
Mining Warm Data, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

2015
Seeing the Elephant, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Summertimeshift, Summer Camp Project Project, Los Angeles
Earth Bound, Project 88, Mumbai

2014
Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
Frestas, Sorocaba Triennale of Art, Centro de Criação Contemporânea, Sao Paolo, Brazil
6018, Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Los Angeles
Ipsum, Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Los Angeles

2013
Manifesto, Khoj Artist Association, Delhi
Audible Forces, Exhibit 320, New Delhi
Home Away, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Take Me Elsewhere, Vanity Projects, New York, NY
Touched, Project 88, Mumbai
Ghar Ghar Ki Baat/Tales from Two Homes, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
No Less a Drawing, Project 88, Mumbai
Artists Film International: Neha Choksi, Kaia Hugin, Alix Pearlstein, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2012
Asia Pacific Triennale 7, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Energy Plus: Mumbai City, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
The Secret Life of Plants, Exhibit 320, New Delhi
Illumination, The Prospectus, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Group Video Show, IBID Projects, London
Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Analog Digital 2012, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
Quarantania 2, Enclave Gallery, London
But a pitstop on a long journey, Wanås Foundation, Sweden
Quarantania: Neha Choksi, Eva Kotáková, Taus Makhacheva, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

2011
In You is the Illusion of Each Day, Latitude 28, New Delhi
Nature as Image, The Loft, Mumbai

2010
Scratch!, Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi
Group Exhibition, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles

2009
Leaf Fall II, Project 88 at the Indian Art Summit, Delhi

2007
Summer Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam
Findings: Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Kunming, Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam

2006
Works on Paper, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
Drawing from LA, Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam
Major Drawings, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles

2005
Paradise Lost, Goff and Rosenthal Gallery, New York

2004
Fantasticism, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles

2003
Hybrids, Glyndor House at Wave Hill, Bronx

1998
Essays in Time: Kinetic Sculptures, Jawaharlal Nehru Center Complex, Mumbai
 

2007
Reading ^ the lines, with Kapil Gupta, Niti Gourisaria, and Ashim Ahluwalia, Project 88, Mumbai
Who is in Town Anyway?, a performance installation with Jyoti Dogra, Rehaan Engineer, Arindam Ghatak, Niti Gourisaria, Faezeh Jalali, Karan Makhija, Pramod Prajapati and Anil Sahu, Project 88, Mumbai
That Time / Sun Sets for Sam, with Rehaan Engineer, Project 88, Mumbai

2006
Mumbai’s Land, with Kapil Gupta and Ashim Ahluwalia, commissioned by UDRI, Cities, 10th
Architecture Biennial, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Gravity’s Fool, Carl Berg Gallery in Cityscapes, Arco Fair, Madrid

2000
Rashtra/Nell Nation, with Nell & Vishal Rawlley, Byculla, Mumbai

1999
Nell Nation/Party Streamers, with Nell, Gallery 4A, Sydney

2022
Hierarchy Study (Elementary), co-presented with Pieter PASD and The Armory Center for the Arts, at The Box Gallery, Los Angeles

2018-9
Elementary, performance as a grown-up kindergarten student attending a public elementary charter school the entire academic year

2018
How was school today?, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
Frame (all) our ears open, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Elementary Sympathy, Actual Size Los Angeles
You Teach Me (Child), performance workshop, MOMA Warsaw
Every Kind of Sun, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

2017
Frame our ears open, Frieze Live, London

2016
On the other side, Project 88, Mumbai
In Memory of the Last Sunset, with dance artist Alice Cummins, Carriageworks, 20th Biennale of Sydney

2015
Shifting Limbs, Summer Camp Project Project, Los Angeles
In Leaf (Primary Time), Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
Reading John Cage Diamond Sutra Style, Emergency Index at MOCA Geffen, LAABF, Los Angeles

2013
A rehearsal for a moment of silence I, Italian Cultural Center, New Delhi

2012
Pause to Release, Khoj Live 2012, New Delhi

2011
Close (the distance), Harkat@Sarai, New Delhi

2010
The Sunset Inside Me, Beyond Pressure Performance Festival, Yangon, Myanmar

2009
Minds to Lose, Khoj International Artists association, Delhi

2008
Minds to Lose, Project 88, Mumbai
Petting Zoo, Khoj Live Performance Festival, Delhi

2000
Rashtra, participatory performance, with Vishal Rawlley, Byculla, Mumbai

2023
Iceboat, Mimesis launch at Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles
Iceboat, Mimesis launch at b_books, Berlin
Iceboat, Hesse Press at BOUND, moCa, Cleveland

2022
Aftermath, as part of Lick, Stick, Leak, JOAN Los Angeles at 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Found Green, as part of X-aMEN-ing Masculinities, Queer Diasporas: Lavender City of Dream, Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles

2021
Charge, VAICA Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists, presented online by Comet Media Foundation and Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
A Trilogy on Absenting: Leaf Fall, Minds to Lose, Iceboat, Mañana Bold at fffriedrich gallery, Frankfurt
Four Videos with Rocks, in conjunction with the solo Uncertain Allies, Kleefeld Contemporary, CSULB, Long Beach

2020
Untitled, as part of Passing Time, http://passing-time.org/
Iceboat, in Works on Water 2020 Triennial Video Show, online, organized out of New York
Dust to Mountain, in I Wish You Could Swim, Like Dolphins Can Swim, VT ARTsalon, Taipei

2019
Iceboat, in conjunction with Wasteland: Open Sessions 16, The Drawing Center, NY
Dust to Mountain, as part of Women on Earth, Art Institute HGK FHNW, Basel
Iceboat, as part of Water Tapes, for Post-Water, Museo Nazionale della Montagna CAI Torino

2018
Iceboat, as part of The Body is a Cage, The Body is Caged, Project Space Festival, Juarez, Mexico

2017
Iceboat, as part of Other Species, Other Times, HFBK, Hamburg University of Fine Arts, Germany
Iceboat, as part of Floating World, Art Bahrain

2016
Iceboat, as part of Other Species, Other Times, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
Iceboat, as part of Other Species, Other Times, Film Forum Series, Montclair State University, NJ

2015
Iceboat, as part of Other Species, Other Times, at the Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley

2014
Minds to Lose, Khoj at the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh
Leaf Fall, The Drop (A Leaf) and Sweetheart, in MIFF, Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai

2013
Iceboat, as part of Artists’ Films, 15th Mumbai Film Festival, MAMI, Mumbai
Minds to Lose, as part of Artists’ Film International, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

2012
Sweetheart, in Video Festival VWII, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Neha Choksi: Trilogy on Absenting, Kristianstads Konsthall, Sweden
Aftermath, broadcast as part of Random Acts, Channel 4
Sweetheart, as part of No Man’s Land, Art Chennai
Minds to Lose, as part of Phantom. Metamorphoses. Animism in Film, Filmcasino, Vienna

2011
Sweetheart, Video Wednesdays II, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Leaf Fall, Looped, at Salt Lake Art Center, now Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah
Found Green, as part of Urban Wilderness, Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna

2006
Absent Decay and Found Green, 10th Architecture Biennial, Venice