Biography
Biography
Nidhi Khurana (b.1980) is an Indian artist, researcher and educator
based in New Delhi. Her studio work takes the form of drawings, textiles,
carpets, prints, artist-books, and sculptures to reflect upon the role of the human within nature. Her work is based upon a wide variety of interconnected
research trails that reflect her interest in natural form and phenomenon.
Nidhi has been a Fellow Artist in
Residence at The Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University,
Budapest in 2023-24 and in 2025. Nidhi is the recipient of the Virtual Artist
Residency at Batemans House lead by Newcastle
University, with the National Trust, International Coalition of Sites of
Conscience and the Artist Studio and Museum network, United Kingdom 2024. She
has recently received a grant in collaboration with Professor Andrew Burton,
Newcastle University U.K. from the Endangered Materials Knowledge Program
(EMKP), British Museum, United Kingdom to document the vanishing Bithooras
in South Delhi.
In 2023, Nidhi was invited to be an artist- in- residence at the Kiran
Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi as a part of the exhibition “Very Small Feelings”
curated by Akansha Rastogi and Diana Campbell. In 2022, Nidhi was an artist
resident at the Westwerk Artist Residency Program, Hamburg, for three months
where she collaborated with an astrophysics researcher from Hamburg University,
to write a story. Her project was funded by the Ministry of Media and Culture,
Hamburg, Germany.
Nidhi has received a travel grant from
the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) in 2013 and the Sher-Gill
Sundaram Arts foundation Grant in 2017. Nidhi has participated in The Why Not
Place residency, New Delhi, the Disappearing Dialogues Residency in Maihar, the
1 Shanthi Road Studio Residency in Bangalore and the Piramal Art residency in
Mumbai.
In 2009 Nidhi has co-curated the exhibition, “Where in the World” at the
Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon with the students and teachers of the Arts and
Aesthetics Department, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Khurana was
invited to collaborate with ‘The Wall People’ for a public art workshop in
Parque Mexico, Mexico City D.F. in 2013 and conducted a workshop for children
at Centro del las Artes de San Augustine (CASA), Oaxaca, Mexico in 2016. In 2019 she was invited to
conduct a workshop with the ‘Road_ To’ project in Heidelberg, Germany on the
subject of migration and the idea of ‘HOME’. In 2022 Nidhi worked as an
archivist for the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation, New Delhi.
Over the years Nidhi has been involved in conceiving, developing and
executing Art Education programs for independent foundations and companies like
the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, the Zabarwan Foundation, Foundation for Indian
Contemporary Art (FICA), Art Reach, Flow India, Art 1st, SAAIER, Manas
Foundation. Nidhi was a part of the team that facilitated the first "Big Draw" event
in India and another on "Integrated Learning Platforms" at the
British Council, New Delhi.
Nidhi Khurana’s career in education began at Welham Girls School, Dehradun
teaching Art to ISC students as well as developing an art curriculum for the
Primary and Middle school. She has facilitated workshops at The Scindia School,
Gwalior, Purkul Youth Development Society, Dehradun, the National
Gallery of Modern Art, the Habitat Centre and Deepalaya School, New Delhi. She
has worked as a Research, Editorial and Design consultant for various projects
including the Delhi Ibsen Festival, Kaaru and the Singhal Foundation and
facilitated a school enrichment program for Learn Today, a Times of India Group
and Vasant Valley School, New Delhi.
Her research includes volunteering for three months at a village school in
Edyanchavadi, Auroville, Tamil Nadu where she developed and implemented an art
curriculum for the Primary Section.
Nidhi was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and received a Master’s in Art
from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
2009. She completed her Bachelors in Visual Arts with a specialization in
Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda,
Gujarat in 2003.
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME
NIDHI KHURANA
EMAIL nidhikhurana217@gmail.com
BLOG ADDRESS www.nidhikhurana217.blogspot.in
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
2009 Qualified University Grants
Commission-National Educational Testing (UGC-NET) Visual Arts.
2009 M.A. in Arts and
Aesthetics from J.N.U. New Delhi.
2003 Bachelors
in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University,
Baroda.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 Artist Residency at the Space House Himalayas,
Satoli, district Nainital, India.
2025 Institute of Advanced
Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
2024 - Virtual Artist Residency at Batemans House lead by Newcastle University, with the National
Trust, International Coalition of
Sites of Conscience and the Artist Studio and Museum
network, United Kingdom.
2024 - Artist residency at Schloss
Balmoral, Bad Ems, funded by the Foundation for Culture,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
2023-24Artist residency at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Central
European University,
Budapest,
Hungary.
2023 Artist Residency as part of
the Exhibition, ‘Very Small feelings’, at Kiran Nadar Museum of
Art, Saket, New Delhi.
2022 Artist residency at
Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany, funded by the Ministry of Media and
Culture, Hamburg.
2021-22Artist residency at Space Studio Residency, Baroda, Gujarat.
2019 Artist residency program
at the Hochschule fur Bidende Kunste Braunschweig, funded by
The State of Lower
Saxony (BS Projects Scholarship 2018-19) Germany.
2019 Artist residency at Haus
am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg, Germany.
2017 1Shanthiroad
Studio/Gallery Residency supported by Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation.
2016 Disappearing Dialogues, an
interdisciplinary Residency at Art Ichol, Maihar, M.P.
2016 Piramal Art Residency,
Mumbai, India
2015-16 Mexican Government Scholarship for a Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico.
2013 Residency with R.A.T.
(Residencias Artisticas por Intercambio) in Mexico City D.F.
2013 Travel Grant from Indian
Council for Cultural Relations.
2011 Awarded Fellowship from
Bajaj Capital Art House.
2010 “The Why not Place Residency” at ArtsI
Gallery, Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi.
2008 Artist residency at The
Global Arts Village, New Delhi.
ART FAIRS, FESTIVALS and ART CAMPS
2025 Educational outreach for
‘Triggered by Motion’ video installation created by the Art X Science
Office, University of Zurich in
collaboration with the team of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art at the
India Art Fair 2025.
2025 Participant at ‘Publishing
your photobook’, Photo South Asia Workshop Series I and II, New
Delhi.
2024-25 ‘A Shared Room’, presented
by Offset projects, Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai.
2024 Endangered Materials Knowledge Program (EMKP) training at the British
Museum, London, UK.
2024 Online Symposium
Virtual artist's residencies in heritage places co-hosted by Newcastle
University and Arts &Heritage,
UK as part of the Virtual Artist Residency at Batemans
House led by Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
2024 Symposium on Metal Sculpture, Shilpanjali Foundation, Works for
Artist Foundry, Jaipur, India.
2023 The Sound of Silence, a group show at the India Art Fair, Art Indus
Booth, New Delhi.
2019 India Art Fair, “In the
Light of the Absurd”, Art Indus, booth F1, New Delhi.
2018 India Art Fair, "Yume
de aimashou", Art Indus, Booth F8, New Delhi.
2018 Krishnakriti Festival,
Hyderabad.
2013 United Art Fair, Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi.
2007 Artist Camp organized by
Welham Girls School, Dehradun as part of the 50th Anniversary
Celebrations.
2007 Artist Camp organized by
RAD at Vijaywada, Telangana, India.
2005 Artist Camp organized by
the Doon School, Dehradun.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Blueprint of another time’, Gallery
Blueprint 12, New Delhi, India.
2024 ‘Traces
of Existence; Place between Places’, with iterate, a solo Exhibition at 34,
Bourdon
Street, Mayfair, London.
2023 ‘A map of now’, a solo
show at Frida Art House, The Ritz-Carlton, Pune, India.
2023 “Inner Terrains”, a solo
show at Apre Art House, Mumbai, India.
2022 Trans-PORTAL, A solo show
at Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany.
2019 ‘Mapping Colour’, a Solo
exhibition at Haus am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg, Germany.
2007 ‘Sketches’ a Solo
Exhibition at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Cartography of Identity-Multiplicity as a Method, with Apparao Art
Gallery at LTC Bikaner
House,
New Delhi.
2025 Group exhibition “Into; Notes on Immersion”, at
Sayner Hutte, Bendorf, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany.
2025
Rhyming- Drawn by the City, Eszter
Bornemiza and Nidhi Khurana at the Art Gallery,
Institute
of Advanced Studies, Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary.
2025 Globales Grenchen, internationale
Drukgraphik aus der Sammling des Kunsthauses Grenchen,
Switzerland.
2024
“Ptolemaus Die Welt im Griff?”, a group show at Kunsthaus Grenchen,
Grenchen, Switzerland.
2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week with Gallery Blueprint12 at Bikaner House,
New Delhi.
2023
Space Studio Alumni Exhibition, Baroda, Gujarat.
2023
‘Very Small Feelings’, at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Saket, New Delhi.
2023 House of Style, Culture of
the Expanded Book at 47A, Chatterjee and Lal Design, Mumbai.
2023 SPATIAL, A group show at
Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi.
2021 “ State of Mind”, a group show at Sakshi
Gallery, Mumbai.
2020 “Abstract Notations” an Online show by
Gallery Espace, New Delhi.
2020 “Breathing Through
Shifting Scapes”, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.
2019 “Every 100 Feet the World
Changes”, Braunschweig Projects 2018-19, Braunschweig,
Germany.
2019 “Creative Disruptionists”
at ITC Maurya Diplomatic Enclave, New Delhi.
2018 “Endless Spaces” with
Apparao Gallery, The Lodhi, New Delhi.
2018 “Nurturing the
Contemporary”, the inaugural exhibition of Piramal Museum of Art Mulund
Gallery, Mumbai.
2018 "Mapping
Frontiers" at Goethe-Zentrum and Kalakriti Art Gallery, as a part of the
Krishnakriti
Festival of Art and Culture, Hyderabad.
2017 Project Cafe Goa, an
Experiential Design Hotel in Assagao, Goa.
2017 "Work in
Progress" a Group show by Kohl Art, New Delhi.
2017 Disappearing Dialogues Exhibition at Bikaner
House, New Delhi
2017 "Memory Weave", of pixels and
Patterns, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2016 "Untitled: Unknown" a group show
by Kohl Art, New Delhi.
2015 "Fibre Fables", An Exhibition in
collaboration with weavers at The Stainless, New Delhi.
2015 "Woven in time, space and
material", at Alliance Francaise, Gurgaon Centre.
2014 "Thread", a group
show by three artists working with textile and thread at the
Gallerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise,
New Delhi.
2014 "Seven strokes of
genius", an event celebrating 5 years at Palladium Mall, with
What about
Art? A Mumbai based Arts Management Company.
2013 'Versatile Thoughts', a
group show organized by Percept Arts, Lower Parel, Mumbai.
2012 Visual Discourse, a group
show at Ireo Waterfront, Ludhiana. (IREO, Times of India
And
Gallery Exhibit 320).
2012 Mapping Mindscapes, two man
show at Gallery Art Positive, New Delhi.
2012 "New Directions in Old
Media: Post-Conceptual Journeys" at Trapezoid Art
Gallery, New Delhi.
2012 Art Makers Circa 2012, a group show at
Gallery Exhibit 320, New Delhi.
2012 'Portraits and
Topographies' a two man show at the Jehangir Art Gallery,
Mumbai
2011 Art Spotting II at Art Positive, a unit of
Bajaj Capital Art House.
2010 ‘Drifting Still’ at Gallery Art Konsult, Hauz
Khas Village, New Delhi.
2010 "The Transforming
State”, a group show of International Artists at Arts I,
Religare Arts Initiative, Connaught Place,
New Delhi.
2009 DRIFTERS, at Gallery Art
Konsult, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi.
2009 Online Group show,
organized by Tangerine Art Gallery, Bangalore.
2008 Group Exhibition at the
Global Arts Village, New Delhi.
2007 Group Exhibition at Nehru
Centre Art Gallery, Worli, Mumbai.
2007 Group Exhibition organized
by gallery Art Felt, New Delhi.
2007 Dual Entities, a group
exhibition of two artists, Gallery Art and Soul, New Delhi.
2007 The Drifters, a group
exhibition by three artists at Artists’ Centre, Mumbai.
2006 5th Annual
Uttaranchal Kala Parishad Exhibition at Press Club, Dehradun.
2005 Group Exhibition of
Paintings at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
2005 RESSURUCTION group
exhibition of over 70 artists in aid of Tsunami victims
at The
Faculty of Fine Arts M.S. University, Baroda
2005 Group Exhibition of
Paintings at Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
2002 IFACS State Level
Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad.
Links to selected interviews, articles
and videos 2024
In Search of Bithooras , Documenting the making and unmaking of decorated cow dung fuel stores in the villages of South Delhi at EMKP British Museum, London
Newcastle University Transnational Art in Heritage Network in collaboration with Batemans House, National Trust United Kingdom 2024.
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/transnationalartinheritagenetwork/virtualresidencies/selectedartists/
Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
https://ias.ceu.edu/people/nidhi-khurana-0
https://ias.ceu.edu/people/nidhi-khurana
Very Small Feelings, KNMA, Saket New
Delhi. PLAYROOM
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx2zpPOvWT4/
‘The Map of
Now’ at Frida Art gallery, The Ritz Carlton Pune, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qP5NgGoV_4Q
Art and Soul magazine Interview during India Art Fair 2023
THE ART OFF Nidhi Khurana. SECRETS OF HAND DYEING, TEXTILES, COLORS and FABRIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCI0llNiAA
Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds (VMIS) website
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