Khandakar Ohida is a visual artist and film practitioner who works between Kolkata and New Delhi. Her areas of interest lie in lens-based mediums, film installations, drawings, and paintings, influenced by her surroundings, such as personal memory, marginalized voices, collective protest, resistance, Decolonization, and nonlinear stories interacting with various societal layers. Her film “Dream Your Museum” was showcased as part of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Germany, in 2022, and screened at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (as part of the 4th module of the Ukraine pavilion public program) in Venice, Italy, in 2022, and at MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, in 2024. Emami Art “Experimental Film Festival, 2022, Kolkata. She has also featured her works at Ames Yavuz Gallery Sydney 2024, Bikaner House, Delhi 2024, Serendipity Art Festival, Goa, 2023, 2019, The Festival of Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Goethe -Institute/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, and Museum of Goa 2019-2020, ‘Ahang’ a travel exhibition in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, 2019 and Students Biennale 2016 Part of KMB, Kerala. She received the Inlaks Fine Arts Award in 2023, the Generator Co-operative Art Production Fund, in 2023, and recently she got nominated for Jameel Prize 7 in 2024 (Art Jameel and V&A, London). She will also participate in Jan Van Eyck's Art residency, Netherland in 2025.
She has completed her BFA from Govt. College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, 2016, and MFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 2018.