In work across and beyond performance, moving image, and sculpture, Neha Choksi probes lived experiences that negotiate relationships in unconventional settings. Harnessing stone to plant, animal to friends, publics to philosophy, Choksi’s materially bound art engages the terms of our existence in ways personal and planetary.
Choksi's work has been widely exhibited, screened or performed in the United States, Asia, Australia, UK, and Europe. Exhibition venues include the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi (2024; 2023; 2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2023; 2020; live, 2018; 2016); The Box Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Galerie Barbara Thumm / New Viewings, Berlin (solo, 2021); Kleefeld Contemporary Museum, Long Beach, CA (solo, 2021); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (solo, 2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2020); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (solo, 2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Manchester Art Gallery, UK (solo, 2017); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (solo, 2017); 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (solo, 2015); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (live, 2022; 2013); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (3-person, 2012); Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2012); Shanghai Biennale (2012); Wanås Foundation and Kristianstads Konsthall, Sweden (2012); 10th La Biennale Di Venezia for Architecture (2006).
Recent honors include the Amant Siena Studio & Research Residency (2023), the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship (2021), the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019), and the India Today Best New Media Artist of the Year Award (2017). Choksi’s work is in notable collections worldwide including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA; Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany; Queensland Gallery of Art / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane; University of Southampton, UK; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; Samdani Art Foundation, Bangladesh; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi; Devi Art Foundation, India. Her work has been widely discussed in print and online, including in Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Mint, India Today, Art India, Take on Art, and Art Asia Pacific. A monograph on a single artwork, Dismantling, was published in 2018.
Choksi currently co-edits Mimesis: Film as Performance Magazine and long served on the editorial board of the Los Angeles-based arts journal, X-TRA. Choksi received a double BA in Greek and in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Classics from Columbia University. Choksi lives and works in Los Angeles and Bombay, India.