Nikhil Chopra
Fellow
Nikhil Chopra has been working in the medium of live art since 2002, when he was studying at Ohio State University. He returned to India in 2005 and currently lives and works in Mumbai. His concepts and works operate at the threshold of theatre, performance, live art, painting, photography, and sculpture. In largely improvised performances, he inhabits fictional characters and spaces that draw on India’s colonial history as well as his own personal history. He was invited to the KHOJ International Performance Art Residency in Delhi and Kashmir in 2007, and to the Kunstenfestivaldesarts’ Residence & Reflection project in Brussels in 2009. He has performed at the Serpentine Gallery in London (2007), the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo (2008), the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2008), the New Museum in New York (2009), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2010). He performed at the 53rd Venice Biennale and was part of the group show "Marina Abramovic presents..." during the Manchester International Festival 2009.
Nikhil Chopra has been working in the medium of live art since 2002, when he was studying at Ohio State University. He returned to India in 2005 and currently lives and works in Mumbai. His concepts and works operate at the threshold of theatre, performance, live art, painting, photography, and sculpture. In largely improvised performances, he inhabits fictional characters and spaces that draw on India’s colonial history as well as his own personal history. He was invited to the KHOJ International Performance Art Residency in Delhi and Kashmir in 2007, and to the Kunstenfestivaldesarts’ Residence & Reflection project in Brussels in 2009. He has performed at the Serpentine Gallery in London (2007), the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo (2008), the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2008), the New Museum in New York (2009), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2010). He performed at the 53rd Venice Biennale and was part of the group show "Marina Abramovic presents..." during the Manchester International Festival 2009.
