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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)

C & L Shows

red curtains opening
red curtains opening
10 August - 16 September
2023

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