Vibha Galhotra Kaithal, Haryana, India, b.1978
Vibha Galhotra (b. 1978, Kaithal, Haryana, India) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the environmental, political, and economic turbulences shaping contemporary urban life. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory projects, Galhotra interrogates accelerated transformations brought by globalisation and their impact on ecology, labour, and collective futures. Her work often employs reclaimed, industrial, and ephemeral materials to create site-responsive interventions that highlight both human and ecological systems in flux. Galhotra has exhibited at major museums and institutions including Asia Society, New York; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; San José Museum of Art; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. She has participated in significant group exhibitions such as Nature and State (Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022), Breathing (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2022), and Markers of Phantasmopolis (8th Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan, 2023). Nature Morte has presented her work in recent solo exhibitions, including Solastalgia (Mumbai, 2025) and Silent Seasons (New Delhi, 2022–23). Her work is held in public and private collections including the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; The Margulies Collection, USA; Pizzuti Collection, USA; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA; and Singapore Art Museum.
Galhotra’s work is currently featured in Desert X AlUla 2026, the fourth edition of the international, open-air art exhibition in Saudi Arabia, as part of the Space Without Measure programme. At AlUla, she presents a new site-specific iteration of her ongoing series Future Fables. Nature Morte has recently presented Future Fables at Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg; Nature Morte Mumbai; and The Sculpture Park, Jaipur.
She currently lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Selected Artworks
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Solastalgia, Nature Morte, Mumbai, India
2024
Climacteric Whispers, Goodman Gallery London, UK
Future Fables, Stir Gallery, New Delhi; Nirox Foundation, South Africa
2022-23
Silent Seasons, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Who Owns the Water ? Interactive Dinner Project, Jerusalem
2020
Beyond the Blue, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2019
Who Owns the Water?, Multidisciplinary performative participatory dinner project, Commissioned by Asia Society, New York, USA
2018
Climacteric, Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, India
2017
[In] Sanity in the Age of Reason, New Delhi, India
2016
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Cook Book Project, India
Meri Kahani Aankhon ki Jubaani, a visual arts project, In collaboration with Apne Aap Women
Worldwide, Land Art Biennial LAM 360°, Mongolia
Garden of dreams, a blindfold walk project, Kathmandu, Nepal
2015
Vibha Galhotra: Absur –City –Pity –Dity, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Walk for the Planet, Public participatory project, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2014
The Black Cloud Project, Public participatory project, Bikaner, India
2013
Sediments and other Untitled…, New Delhi, India
Alter, Curated by Lucie Fontane, MK Search Art Gallery, Italy
2012–2013
Vibha Galhotra: Metropia, Curated by Steven Matijcio, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
2012
Vibha Galhotra: Utopia of Difference, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Re-BirthDay, FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Piazza Cavour, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2011
Vibha Galhotra: Neo Monster (Travelling Exhibition), Select City Walk Mall Saket, New Delhi, India
Hornbill Festival, Nagaland, India
Colombo Art Biennial, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Art Riga Latvia, Riga, Latvia
San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2008
Vibha Galhotra: Metropia, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2006
Where Do We Come From? What are we? Where Are We Going?, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005
Vibha Galhotra: Between Me and Delhi, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2004
Vibha Galhotra: WHITE, Exhibition Hall, Fine Arts Faculty, MS University, Baroda, India
2002
Space within the Space, Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India
Group Exhibitions
2024–25
Politically Charged, Aicon Gallery, New York, 2024
Voir Dire — Part II, Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art (AMCA), Mumbai, 2025
Shared Worlds–15 Years of Exhibit320, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, 2025
2022–23
Infinite Reminders, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India, 2022
Sa Ladakh Land Art, Ladakh, India
One that includes myth, Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Nature and State, Kunsthalle Baden–Baden, Germany
Breathing, Hamburger-Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Markers of Phantasmopolis, 8th Asian Art Biennial, National Museum of Taiwan, Taichung, 2023
2021
We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Triennial, New York
Markers of Time and Space, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India, 2021
2020
Down to Earth, Gropius Bau, Berlin
Zero Waste : Museum of Fine Arts -Leipzig, Gemany
2019
Brave New World, Jack Shainman Gallery – New York
2018
DELIRIUM // EQUILIBRIUM, Curated by Roobina Karode : Kiran Nader Museum of Art-Delhi
Art-Poetry, The Last Innocences-Instituto Cervantes-Delhi
Facing India, Curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp-The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg-Germany
Mutations, Indo-French Image Encounters curated by Rahaab Allana & Francois Cheval-New Delhi
Sculpture Park curated by Peter Nagy-Nahargarh Fort-Jaipur-India
Water + Wisdom, Australia India-RMIT Gallery-Melbourne-Australia
2015
Winter in America, The School, Kinderhook, New York
Piece by Piece, Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri
Walking on the Planet, Casa Masaccio / Centro per l’arte Contemporanea, Corso, Italy
2014
Mise En Scène The School, Kinderhook, NY, August – December 2014
Past Tradition, Curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Exhibit320, New Delhi
Forms of Activism, curated by Vivan Sundaram & Sasha Altaf, L K A, New Delhi
Multiplicity- City as subject /Matter, Curated by Marco Antonini, Nurture Art Gallery, New York
Citizens of Time, curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, Dhaka art summit
Bright Noise, curated by Girish Shahane, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
Is there love in this air, Art Oxygen, Mumbai,
2013
ICASTICA “Arezzo Biennial”, Arezzo Italy
“Souvenir”, curated by Lucie Fontane, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
“Sculpture on the Beach” Art Dubai, 2013. Curated by Chus Martinez
“Haein Art project”, Curated by Art O2 Haeinsa temple, Korea
The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post)modern Moment, Gallery OED, Cochin, India
2012
“Contemporary Renaissance” Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo) Italy
“Becoming” Colombo Art Biennale”- Sri Lanka
“Theertha International Artists Collective” Colombo, Srilanka
2011
“The Indian Parallax or the Doubling of Happiness”,curated by Shaheen Merali, Calcutta ,India
“Modern and Contemporary Art from India”, San Jose Museum of Art, California, USA
2010
“India Awakening Under the Banyan Tree”, Essl Museum, Austria
2009
“Aluminum”, 4th BAKU Biennale, Azerbaijan
“Space Invader”, Aicon Art Gallery, London,UK
“India Xianzai”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China,
2008
“Best of Discovery”, Sh Contemporary , Shanghai, China
“Destination Asia: Flying over Stereotypes’ Conversation: Artists from Central Asia and South Asia, Dubai
“Everywhere Is War (and rumours of war)”, Bodhi Art, Mumbai. Curated by Shaheen Merali.
“Mutant Beauty”, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi. Curated by Gayatri Sinha,
“Rethinking Materiality”, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
“Walk The Line”, Avanthy Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
“Zeitgeist”, Pallete Art Gallery, India. Curated by Latika Gupta.
2007
“City Cite Site”, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Destination Asia: Non-strict correspondence” organized by Soros Center for Contemporary Art,Kazakhstan
2006
“Bronze” Gallery Espace, New Delhi
“International Exchange” exhibition organized by LKA at Syria
“Brazier International Artists Workshop” UK
2005
“Unclaimed Luggage” Artrageous Group Cyprus
“Fordsburg Artist Studio (Bag Factory)”,South Africa
2004
“The Twilight Zone of Digital Divide”, West-end, New Delhi, India
46th National Annual Art Exhibition
2003
International Mini print de Sarajevo
Lionel Went Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri-lanka
Bharat Bhavan Intl. Print Biennial, Bhopal
45th National Annual Art Exhibition
2002
44th Annual National Arts Exhibition
Gut Gasteil, An organization for art in landscape, Austria
2001
Europas Parkas, Sculptures symposium, Lithuania
Group Show at Saga Art College, Japan
Bharat Bhavan Intl Print Biennial, Bhopal
AIFACS All India Annual Art Exhibition, New Delhi
Birla Academy Annual Art Exhibition, Kolkata
Awards
Awards and Fellowships
2020-21 Jerusalem International Fellows
2019 Asia Arts Future – Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
2017 Asia Culture Council Grant, New York
2016 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center. Bellagio, Italy
2015 Young Women Achievers Award Young FICCI Ladies Organisation (YFLO)
2008 Best of Discovery, China Inlaks Foundation Fine Arts Award
2003 National Scholarship Human Resource Department, Government of India
1998 Artist under 30 Award, Chandigarh State, Lalit Kala Akademy Award