Sonia Khurana is a visual artist based in New Delhi. She works with lens-based media—photography, video, the moving image, performance, text, drawing, sound, installation, and is an alumnus of Delhi College, Royal College of Art, London and the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. The pulse at the heart of the performative part of Sonia Khurana’s practice has been the body in resistance, and in the aftermath. She thoughtfully positions the body as mediator between affective states and in the entanglements of place, presence, and its situation in the world.

In 2000, her solo exhibition, Lone Women Don’t Lie, in Delhi, was considered a landmark for its focus on the materiality of the moving image. Her video Bird (1999) was positioned as pioneering in both, feminist discourse and early artworks of digital media. Since the late nineties, her work has been presented internationally, including elles@Centre Pompidou (2009– 10), Global Feminisms at theBrooklyn Museum (2007), the Busan Biennale (2004), Gwangju Biennale (2008); Aichi Triennale, Japan, and West Heavens, Shanghai, 2010, Elles@ Pompidou in Paris; Delhi-Bombay-Paris at the Pompidou Center;Gwangju Biennale, ARCO Madrid, India Moderna in Valencia, Aichi Tiennale, Japan; Edge of desire, Asia Society, New York, among many others.Sculpture Motion (2017)  Wanas Konst in Sweden; Bird and Other Body Events, Kochi Biennale (2018-2019)

Select solo exhibitions include Don’t Touch Me When I Start to Feel Safe (Feb

2022), an off-site performative exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and India Art Fair in New Delhi; Fold Unfold (Jan-Mar 2017) at Gallery Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai; and Oneiric House (Jan-Mar 2014), an off-site exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, supported by the Outset India Foundation. Other solo shows include Living in the Round (Mar-Apr 2009) at Max Muller Bhavan, Goethe Institut in Delhi; Still Moving Image (Jun-Aug 2007) at Gallerie Jousse Enterprise in Paris; Many Lives (Jan-Feb 2006) at Apeejay Media Gallery in New Delhi; and Lone Women Don’t Lie (Sept-Oct 2000) at the British Council Queen’s Gallery and Goethe Institute, New Delhi.

Recent, select exhibitions: intersections: sites of becoming – 50 years of Inlaks Fondation, feb – April, 2026, Artshila, Delhi; Bold Women (Feb 2025) at Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence, Kansas; Memory Fields, Oct 2024 at Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi; Mirror Maze(sept 2022-dec 2023), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art; Delhi. 

Sonia Khurana’s current series of talks in the U.K. in 2025 – at the University of Newcastle; at St Andrews University, Edinburgh; and at King’s College London – invite reflections on aesthetic nomadism; and the body and resistance. Foregrounding corporeal eloquence, and the sentient body, she cites from her recent and ongoing art projects, to understand resistance in a contemporary context, and through individual agency.