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Nikhil Chopra is a performance artist whose work generally centers on the remnants of India’s colonial past. Deeply influenced by his Kashmiri identity, Chopra creates characters that are not fixed in time or space, not historically accurate, yet immensely real and endearing. As a performance artist, Chopra collapses the boundaries between theatre and several other artistic endeavours, including set design, costume and makeup design, and...
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Nikhil Chopra is a performance artist whose work generally centers on the remnants of India’s colonial past. Deeply influenced by his Kashmiri identity, Chopra creates characters that are not fixed in time or space, not historically accurate, yet immensely real and endearing. As a performance artist, Chopra collapses the boundaries between theatre and several other artistic endeavours, including set design, costume and makeup design, and photography and video documentation.
Chopra’s ‘Sir Raja’ project is probably his best known work. In this piece, the artist blurs the boundaries between the performance space and the audience space, grappling with the challenge of being himself as the protagonist, while rendering himself as someone else.
Chopra has also dabbled in creating art right before the audience, sketching landscapes using charcoal on paper or on the wall during his performances.
Chopra graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University, Baroda, and went on to study at Maryland Institute, Baltimore, and Ohio State University. In 2007, Chopra was artist in residence at Khoj International Artists’ Asscoiation, New Delhi.
Nikhil Chopra lives and works in Mumbai.
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Born
1974
Kolkata
Education
2003 Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland, USA
1997-99 Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat
1995 N. M. College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'Yog Raj Chitrakar, Memory...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'Yog Raj Chitrakar, Memory Drawing X, Part 1', Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Museum
2008 ‘Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing V’, Chhaterjee and Lal, Mumbai
2007 ‘Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing II’, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
2005 ‘Sir Raja III’, The Fourth Floor, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai. Supported by Chatterjee & Lal
2003 ‘Sir Raja II’, Kinnear Warehouse, Ohio
2002 ‘Sir Raja I’, 105 West Prescott Street Basement, Ohio
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2009 'Simple Tales', Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
2009 ‘Real Time, Real Documents’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2008 ‘Everywhere Is War (and rumours of war)’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 ‘Emerging Discourses II’, Bodhi Art, New York
2008 'The New York Show', presented by Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2007 ‘Posing’, Abrons Art Center, New York
2007 ‘House of Mirrors’, Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London
2007 ‘Beings and Doings’, Queens Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Maurizio Couldn’t Be Here: The Taste of Others’, Apexart, New York
2005 ‘Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metrosexuality’, The Fourth Floor, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
2005 ‘The Second Coming: The Quotable Stencil’, Tao Art gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘To The Capital City’, FAB Gallery, Virginia Common Wealth University, Virginia
2003 ‘Convergence’, Hopkins Gallery, Ohio State University, Ohio
2002 Commencement Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College Of Art, Maryland
2001 ‘Homemade Karaoke Night’, The Source of Uncertainty, Maryland
2001 ‘Flicker’, Charles Theatre, Maryland
Participations
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2011-12 'Indian Highway V', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'Crossroads : India Escalate', India Pavilion at Prague Biennale 5
2011 'The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art Of India', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 'Generation in Transition: New Art from India', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
2011 'Homespun', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 'Beyond The Self', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2010 'Transformations', part of the Exhibition within Exhibition of 'Indian Highway', at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2009-10 'The Self & the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian photography', Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona; Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2009 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy represented by Chaterjee & Lal, Mumbai
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain represented by Chhaterjee and Lal, Mumbai
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2008 ‘Time Crevasse’, Performance at Central and Waterfront Sites as part of Triennial of Yokohama
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2006 Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York
2004 ‘Contemporaneity, International Video Art in Kyrgyzstan’, part of the 2004 Central Asian Biennial at G. Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Honours and Awards
2007 International Performance Art Residency, Khoj, New Delhi
2003 Edith Fergus Gilmore Materials Grant, Ohio State University, Ohio
2002 Preparing Studio Art Faculty Program Grant, Ohio State University, Ohio
2001 Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, Ohio
2000 Santa Farinella Sangiamo Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland
2007 International Performance Art Residency, Khoj, New Delhi
2003 Edith Fergus Gilmore Materials Grant, Ohio State University, Ohio
2002 Preparing Studio Art Faculty Program Grant, Ohio State University, Ohio
2001 Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, Ohio
2000 Santa Farinella Sangiamo Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland
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