Martand Khosla New Delhi, India, b.1975
Martand Khosla (b. 1975, New Delhi, India) is an artist whose practice explores urban continuity and transformation, shaped by his parallel experience building in contemporary India. He founded and has led the award-winning architecture practice Romi Khosla Design Studios for over two decades. Khosla initially turned to art to examine how construction-fuelled labour shapes identity, memory, and nostalgia.
Positioned as both participant and observer, he employs materials and tools associated with the State—such as the ubiquitous rubber stamp and brick dust collected from his construction sites—to register its imprint on lives shaped by power and dispossession. Brick dust has become a recurring language in his work, allowing material itself to speak to cycles of construction and demolition, permanence and precarity. His practice traverses sculpture and object, movement and remnant, material and memory, foregrounding an object’s intrinsic potential. Through repetition and process, he reflects on the micro-actions that underpin macro-structures, shifting attention from authoritarian power toward its diffusion and transformation.
Khosla has held solo exhibitions at Nature Morte, New Delhi (2016, 2019, 2022, 2025), Seven Art Gallery, New Delhi (2012), and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2012). His work was included in State of Architecture, curated by Rahul Mehrotra, Kaiwan Mehta, and Ranjit Hoskote at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2016). He has participated in group exhibitions including 50 Years After 50 Years of the Bauhaus 1968, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2018); Food, SESC, São Paulo (2014); This Night Bitten Dawn, Devi Art Foundation and Gujral Foundation, New Delhi (2016); In Other Rooms, GALLERYSKE, Bengaluru (2015); and 10 Chairs, Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2019), among others.
He currently lives and works in New Delhi.
Selected Artworks
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2022
On the Brink, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2019
1:2500, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2016
MesoDomain, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2012
City of Hope I, Curated by Deeksha Nath, Seven Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
City of Hope II, Curated by Deeksha Nath, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Group Exhibitions
2024
India Art Fair, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Art Dubai, Dubai, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2023
The Armory Show, Nature Morte, New York City
Carter Road, Bandra Bandstand Mumbai Urban Art Festival
Jaipur Sculpture Park Nahargarh Fort, curated by Peter Nagy
India Art Fair, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2022
Spaced Out, Art Incept, New Delhi
AD. design show (Bombay), Nature Morte, New Delhi
Manicured Techniques, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2021
On-Site, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India, Presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi
Possible Worlds I, Online viewing room, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Possible Worlds II, Online viewing room, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2020
India Art Fair, Nature Morte, New Delhi
The Future is not Fixed (Online Viewing Room), Curated by Arjun Dev Sawhney, Presented by Nature Morte and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Possible Worlds (Online Viewing Room), Nature Morte, New Delhi
Between the Sheaths, STIR
2019
India Art Fair, Nature Morte New Delhi
10 Chairs, Gallery Espace, New Delhi,
2018
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Presented by GALLERYSKE
50 Years After 50 Years of the Bauhaus 1968, Curated by Kaiwan Mehta, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Connecting Lines, Curated by STIR and Art Pilgrim, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2017
Delhi Contemporary Art Weekend, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2016
Aqua: World Water Joy: A Work in Progress (Online Viewing Room), Art for the World, Geneva, Switzerland
State of Architecture, Curated by Rahul Mehrotra, Kaiwan Mehta, Ranjit Hoskote, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
This Night Bitten Dawn, Curated by Salima Hashmi, New Delhi, India, Presented by Devi Art Foundation and Gujral Foundation
India Art Fair, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Art Dubai, Dubai, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Art Basel, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Presented by Nature Morte
2015
In Other Rooms, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore, India
2014
Delineating Memories, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
Make / Do, GALLERYSKE, New Delhi, India
Food, Curated by Adelina von Furstenberg, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil
Homing, Curated by Deeksha Nath, Art Positive, New Delhi, India
2013
Parallel Postulates, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
Lateral, Curated by Heidi Fichtner, KONA, New Delhi, India
KONA, Curated by Sonya Fatah, New Delhi, India
India Art Fair, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012
Matter, Curated by Deeksha Nath, Blueprint 12, New Delhi, India
India Art Fair, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2010
Reclaiming the streets, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009
Building for Bouwkunde, Delft, Netherlands
2005
Playground and Toys, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, Curated by Adelina von Furstenberg
Playground and Toys, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, Curated by Adelina von Furstenberg
1997
1 Dig KX, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
Awards
India Today Art Award, New Media Artist, 2019-2020
Winner, Reclaiming the Streets, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Architectural Digest, Top 50 Designers, 2014
Trends, Editors choice award, 2014
NDTV, Architectural Awards, Best Commercial Building, 2014
NDTV Architecture Awards, Best Commercial Interior, 2014
FuturArc (Singapore), sustainable commercial building citation, 2014
Construction World, Most innovative Architect, 2013
Construction World, Top ten young architects of India, 2012
Indian Architect and Interiors, Best architects of India, 2012
World Architecture Community Award, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012