Biography
Nidhi Khurana (b.1980) is an Indian artist 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. Nidhi is interested in collaborations of all kinds. Her work is based upon a wide variety of interconnected research trails that reflect her interest in natural form and phenomenon. She works with gold, silver, silk, cotton, vegetable dyes, cow dung, clay, stone, metal, glass and any other material that can help materialize her vision.
Nidhi has been a Fellow Artist in Residence at The Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest in 2023-24 and has been invited to exhibit her work in 2025. She is currently a part of the Artist Residency program at Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, funded by the Foundation for Culture, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Nidhi is currently 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. Her project was funded by the Ministry of Media and Culture, Hamburg, Germany.
She completed a yearlong Artist residency program at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, funded by the State of Lower Saxony (BS Projects Scholarship 2018-19) Germany. In 2021-22 she was selected for the Space Studio residency in Baroda, Gujarat. Nidhi was shortlisted for the English Heritage and Newcastle University Artist residency program 2022.
She was awarded the Mexican Government Scholarship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for a residency in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2015-16. 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. She received the Bajaj Capital Art House Fellowship, New Delhi in 2011. Nidhi has exhibited in Europe, Mexico, United Kingdom, and India.
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, 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 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. 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. 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 https://nidhikhurana217.blogspot.com/
Mobile Number +91
7838967079
Address
C-67, Top floor Freedom Fighter Enclave, 402, Neb Sarai, IGNOU Road,
New Delhi-110068
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
2009 Master of Arts in Arts and
Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
2003 Bachelor of Visual Arts (B.V.A Sculpture) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University,
Baroda.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 (upcoming March) 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, funded by the Ministry of Media and Culture, Hamburg,
Germany.
2021-22Artist residency at Space Studio Residency, Baroda, Gujarat India
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, New Delhi.
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
2024 Endangered Materials Knowledge Program (EMKP) training at the British Museum, London,
UK.
2024 Symposium on Metal
Sculpture, Shilpanjali Foundation, 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.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 (upcoming October) 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.
2023 “Inner Terrains”, a solo show at Apre Art House, Mumbai.
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.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Upcoming May) Sayner Hutte, Bendorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
2025 (Upcoming March) with Eszter Bornemiza
(Hungarian textile artist) at the Art gallery, Institute
of Advanced Studies,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
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 ‘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.
2018 “Nurturing the Contemporary”, at Piramal Museum of Art Mulund
Gallery, Mumbai.
2018 "Mapping Frontiers", Goethe-Zentrum and Kalakriti Art
Gallery, Krishnakriti Festival, Hyderabad.
2017 Disappearing Dialogues Exhibition at Bikaner
House, 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.
2013 'Versatile Thoughts', a
group show organized by Percept Arts, Lower Parel, Mumbai.
2012 Mapping Mindscapes, two men
show at Gallery Art Positive, 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 "The Transforming
State”, a group show of International Artists at Arts I, Religare Arts
Initiative,
Connaught Place, New Delhi.
2007 Dual Entities, a group
exhibition of two artists, Gallery Art and Soul, New Delhi.
2005 Group Exhibition of
Paintings at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
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
Stir world
