Remen Chopra New Delhi, India, b.1980
Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaart (b. 1980, New Delhi, India) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores migration, memory, identity, and the passage of time. She received her BFA and MFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, studied art history and Italian at the Università per Stranieri, Siena, and continued her visual art studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Working across photography, drawing, sculpture, textiles, and sound, Chopra develops a poetic visual language grounded in questions of home, cultural landscapes, and intergenerational memory. Her works often navigate the space between the physical and the emotional, evoking fragility, regeneration, and cyclical notions of time while reflecting on displacement, belonging, and the preservation of personal and collective histories.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and major platforms including solo exhibitions at Musée Guimet, Paris (2021), The Gujral Foundation, New Delhi (2020), Nature Morte, New Delhi (2025), and 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai (2022), as well as the 56th Venice Biennale (Transnational Pavilion), Kochi–Muziris Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit, and Asia Now, Paris. Her work has also been shown at the Essl Museum, Vienna, Casa Masaccio – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, and Museo Luigi Pecci di Prato. She has undertaken residencies at the School of Visual Arts, New York, Space 118, Mumbai, and Atelier 2221 Edition Studio, New Delhi.
She lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Aurum Lazuli, Nature Morte, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
2022
In These Verses I Find Home, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai
2021
Memory’s Cut: It’s Deep Embrace, Musée Guimet, Paris
2020
Memory’s Cut: It’s Deep Embrace, The Gujral foundation, New Delhi
2015
Feel, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011
Memoirs of Tanaz and Vimala, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Group Exhibitions
2022
Asia Now Paris, presented by The Gujral Foundation, Paris, France
2016
Kochi – Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
We Have Arrived Nowhere, 56th Venice Biennale, Transnational Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Biennale Arte Dolomiti, Italian Dolomites, Italy
2015
Walking on the Planet, Casa Masaccio, Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, Italy
2014
Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangaladesh
2012
Contemporary Renaissance, Casa Masaccio, Italy
2010
Essl Museum, Vienna
2008
Group show at Westerhuis curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Amsterdam, Netherlands