Nidhi Khurana (b.1980) lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Nidhi is interested in exploring fields, forests, gardens,
ecosystems, cities, kitchens, factories and workshops to discover ways in which
matter can be created and destroyed.
Maps and the idea of mapping has been central to her
practice. It alludes to a physical fear of being lost but also points to a lost
civilization or a civilization losing its way.
Nidhi has recently completed an Artist residency program at
the Hochschule fur Bidende Kunste Braunschweig, funded by the State of Lower
Saxony (BS Projects Scholarship 2018-19) Germany.
She was awarded the Mexican Government Scholarship 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 in 2011.
In 2015, Nidhi developed a large scale map of Panipat in
collaboration with the weavers of Raj Overseas, a carpet export factory in
Panipat for an exhibition titled “Fibre Fables” at the Stainless Gallery, New
Delhi.
Her work has been exhibited at BS Projects exhibition in
Germany, the India Art Fair, New Delhi, the Krishnakriti Festival, Hyderabad,
the Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi, the Piramal Museum of Art and Jehangir
Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Nidhi was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and received an
M.A. in Arts and Aesthetics from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the
Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat in 2003.