Artists > Nihaal Faizal
Nihaal Faizal’s works respond to the copy, the replica, the remake, the gadget, and the gimmick. He is based in Bangalore, India, where he founded Reliable Copy, a publishing house for works, projects, and writing by artists.
Profile
b. 1994
Education
2018 Home Workspace Programme, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2016 BCA in CAP, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 (video art), C.A.V.E., New York, USA (cur. Ben Broome)
2025 The Magic Pencil, 44 Great Russell St, London, UK (cur. Ben Broome and Olamiju Fajemisin)
2025 FRAMES, 8-0-0, Bangalore, India
2024 Dummy, Bill’s PC, Fremantle, Western Australia
2023 (video art), Bill’s PC, Fremantle, Western Australia
2023 red curtains opening, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
2022 Special FX, Blueprint12, New Delhi, India
2017 The Real Taste of India, Mumbai Art Room, Bombay, India (with Chinar Shah)
2011 More Automobiles Than Are Parkable, David Hall, Fort Kochi, India
2010 Freedom Road, Vernissage Art Gallery, Cochin, India
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Shared Stories Now, Humayun’s Tomb Museum, New Delhi, India (cur. Andrea Anastassio)
2026 Ephemera Forever, Otohime Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cur. New Low)
2025 Like Gold, Rizq Art Initiative at Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (cur. Murtaza Vali)
2024 Book Show 1, W.I.P. alt FEST, New Delhi, India (cur. Priyesh Gothwal)
2024 Book Show 1, W.I.P. alt FEST, Bangalore, India (cur. Priyesh Gothwal)
2024 Dear Reader, Loong Mah, New York, USA (cur. Cici Wu and Elaine W. Ho)
2024 Network Culture, 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2024 Parallel Cities, Italian Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India (cur. Andrea Anastassio)
2023 at the kitchen table, Ark Foundation for the Arts, Baroda, India (cur. Reliable Copy)
2023 Dāva / Davaa | Claim / Medicine, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC, New Delhi, India (cur. Sukanya Deb)
2023 Bare Acts, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (forthcoming)
2023 Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12G, Philadelphia, USA (forthcoming)
2023 Gathering, The Corner Gallery, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2023 How to know what’s really happening, Betonhalle in silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany
2022 How to Reappear, TKM Warehouse, Kochi, India
2022 Lot 49, The Luminary, St. Louis, USA
2022 Parsec, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India
2022 Copy Right, India International Centre, New Delhi, India
2021 at the kitchen table, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India
2021 First Look, New Museum and Rhizome, online
2021 DCAW – Blueprint12, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2021 Platform, Blueprint12, online
2020 Escaleras Futuras, Galería Santa Fé, Bogota, Colombia
2019 Sickle & Code, Museum of History and Cultural Heritage, Lakatamia, Cyprus
2019 View: India, Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden
2019 Between Dog and Wolf, Home Sweet Home, New Delhi, India
2017 Double Road, whiteBOX, Munich, Germany
2017 Common Ground #3, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2017 ARCADE, Klara Kiss Zip Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 Material Light, Mill Hall, Mattanchery, Kerala, India
2017 #exstrange, e-Bay and www.exstrange.com, online
2016 3BHK, Home Sweet Home, Heritage Apartments, Fort Cochin, India
2016 Document V, The Luminary, St.Louis, USA
2016 Edit 4, CEMA Gallery, Srishti Old Campus, Yelahanka New Town, India
2016 A Bit to Eat, Taste of India Restaurant, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015 Templates for Everyone, We’ll Figure It Out, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015 Common Ground #2, Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India
2015 Where the Heart Is, Home Sweet Home, Bangalore, India
2014 The C(h)roma Show, Croma Store, Bangalore, India
2014 Now Showing, Rex Theatre, Bangalore, India
2013 Lost Thoughts and Found Ideas, G.159, Yelahanka New Town, India
2012 GenNext VI, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
Screenings
2024 (video art), Asia Art Archive in India, New Delhi, India
2023 Record Store Day, The Courtyard, Bangalore, India
2022 We are the Aliens we are Looking for, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery Bangalore, India
2021 from cinema, Artists in (R)evolution Collective, online
2020 Cinemagora, UNI, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 06/02/20, Kinoclub Fallow, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2016 Self as Document, Srishti Grad Show, Bangalore, India
Residencies
2024 Amant Foundation – Studio and Research Residency Program, New York, USA
2021 Homebound Residency: Digital Communities, Warehouse421, online
2019 ZK/U, Berlin, Germany (supported by Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore)
2015 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India
Grants
2025 Artist Grant UK
2025 Jenni Crain Foundation – Research Grant
2022 New York University Abu Dhabi – Research Kitchen Grant
2021 India Foundation for the Arts – Explorations
2020 Rhizome – Info-Wars Microgrant
2020 Experimenter – GENERATOR Cooperative Art Production Fund (with Chinar Shah)
2020 Akar Prakar Contemporary – ArtVarta Publishing Grant
2017 Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation – Mumbai Art Room Exhibition Grant (with Chinar Shah)

