Nikhil Chopra

Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice interweaves drawing, live art, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances dwell on identity and its construction, autobiography and authorship, the pose and self-portraiture. Nikhil combines everyday life, memory and collective history: daily acts such as eating, resting, washing, dressing, drawing and making clothes become the process of making an artwork. In 2008, the artist was invited to contribute to Time Crevasse (Yokohama Triennale), 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 Performance Cultures, Frei Universität 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-day-long solo performance titled Lands, Waters and Skies for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In March 2023 he ended a six-month residency at Art Explora, Cité International des Arts in Paris with major solos at Galleria Continua, Paris and most recently at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai in January 2024. Nikhil Chopra lives in Goa where he runs HH Art Spaces with partners, also the current curatorial team for the sixth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26.