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; Dhaka Art Summit; The Box Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin; Kleefeld Contemporary Museum, Long Beach, CA; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; 20th Biennale of Sydney; Hayward Gallery Project Space, London; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane; Shanghai Biennale; Wanås Foundation, Sweden; 10th La Biennale Di Venezia for Architecture.
Recent honors include the 2023 Amant Siena Studio & Research Residency, the 2021 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, the 2019 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, and the 2017 India Today Best New Media Artist of the Year Award. A monograph on a single artwork, Dismantling, was published in 2018. Choksi’s work is in notable public and private collections worldwide.
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 has long served on the editorial board of the Los Angeles-based arts journal, X-TRA, and co-edits Mimesis: Film as Performance Magazine. Choksi lives and works in Los Angeles and Bombay, India.