Please Note : CISA 2022 has been postponed until further notice  

We are pleased to announce our artists in residence for Peers 2022 at Khoj! Asish Kumar Palei @paleiasish Moumita Basak @moumita1243 Richa Arya @richaarya1997 Vishnu Prasad @vishnu._.prasad Yash Vyas @whyvyas This year’s critic-in-residence is: Sohorpem Kazingmei @attheriskofbeing Special thanks to the jury for Peers 2022: Anushka Rajendran @anushkarajendran, Sonia Mehra Chawla @soniamehrachawla, and Sumakshi Singh @sumakshisingh Peers 2022 will take…

“Can man live elsewhere than in air?” – Luce Irigray Air is the site of “smell, breath, wind, weather, air conditioning, air pollution, science, sound, oxygen, smoking —the tactility of the atmosphere.” – Timothy Choy To live in New Delhi is to be in constant and intimate communion with toxicity— being marked in a bodily way by where you live…

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, Peers 2021 marks the 17th edition of Peers, the first-ever Hybrid Peers Residency, unfolding online, followed by a physical immersion by the residents at Khoj Studios, and a Peers 2021 open day at Khoj shortly after. At its core, the Peers program acts as a stepping-stone for young artists, aiding them through a transitional moment in…

In an attempt to include the wider student community and emerging practioners into the Khoj network and to provide a forum for experimentation and interaction with the larger artistic community, Khoj launched an artist-residency program for students from different art colleges in India. Peers 2003 was the first of its kind in India consisting of 5 artists from art institutions across India.…

For Peers 2013, five artists fresh out of college along with a critic worked together at KHOJ Studios to develop their creative practice. The artists this year experimented with a diverse range of creative practices, beginning from Parag Sonarghare, who undertook intimate engagements with inanimate objects in the course of interrogating performance and performativity, Pratik Bhattacharya who inserted several unconventional…

The Peers Student Residency is a platform, initiated with support from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), that provides an invaluable opportunity for exchange and dialogue. The artists invited for Peers 2011 represented a wide cross section of geographies and disciplines. For four weeks, five young artists spent time working and living together. It was a time for interaction, collaboration,…

The Peers Student Residency is a platform, initiated with support from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), that provides an invaluable opportunity for exchange and dialogue. The artists invited for Peers 2009 represented a wide cross section of geographies and disciplines. For four weeks, five young artists spent time working and living together. It was a time for interaction, collaboration,…

Peers is a four week residency programme at KHOJ International Artists’ Association that provides recent graduates and masters students from various art and design institutes across the country an opportunity for exchange and dialogue. It aims to provide young artists a forum for experimentation and interaction with the larger creative community. It also hopes to create a network of students…

For Peers 2007, five artists fresh out of college along with a critic worked together at KHOJ Studios to develop their creative practice. These artists were Uma Ray, whose work reflects on the journey of an individual exploring the self within as well as without, Prathap Modi who works with large woodcuts and plays with the psychological mindset of the…

PEERS is a 4-week residency program for recent graduates from art colleges across India, initiated with support from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), which provides an opportunity for exchange and dialogue. The PEERS program hopes to create a regular forum for experimentation, development, and critique within an alternative educational framework. PEERS 2006 brought together a diverse group of…

The Peers Student Residency is a platform, initiated with support from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), that provides an invaluable opportunity for exchange and dialogue. The artists invited for Peers 2005 represented a wide cross section of geographies and disciplines. For four weeks, five young artists spent time working and living together. It was a time for interaction, collaboration,…

Based on the success of the first student’s residency Peers 2003, KHOJ  re-launched another edition of the student residency in May 2004. MFA students from Delhi, Chennai, Baroda, Mumbai, Shantiniketan  participated. Two artist statements given below testify to the space of creative exploration opened up by the residency. “At the studio, the space was very interesting to work with. The…

The ongoing global health crisis has ruptured the functioning of both individuals and institutions. At this difficult time, Khoj International Artists’ Association is invested in identifying and responding to the needs of the primary communities it serves. To honour our longstanding commitment to young artists and supporting art practice at a time which poses unprecedented challenges, Khoj announced the Khoj…

For the year 2021, Khoj is delighted to announce the start of three new projects as part of Peripheries & Crossovers: art as social practice. The participants for this year are Stuti Pradhan, Saleha Sapra & Riddhi Batra and Swati Janu. For the year 2021, Stuti Pradhan will work with migrant women in the informal sector to bring out stories…

The fourth edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) 2021 will be led by art practitioner and writer Shuddha Sengupta and Delhi based curator Latika Gupta. The first phase of the fellowship is a two-week intensive programme which will be held virtually from October 18th – 30th 2021. The sessions will include a combination of talks, seminars and workshops looking at the…

The second KHOJ International Residency explored the sculptural and plastic arts, playing host to eight artists from France, Nepal, Denmark, Mexico and India. During the six weeks, most of the artists developed an interest in each other’s work and techniques. The different languages and scripts of India inspired the works created by Barbara Wiebel and Patrice Rouby, that were transferred…

This was the first Pilot Residency program organised by KHOJ. The workshop invited artists from the UK, Sri Lanka, and Delhi to work together in a studio, which was a large warehouse space in Khirkee village, New Delhi. The space was offered as a temporary loan from artist and friend Pablo Bartholomew. There was no prescribed or curated thematic; artists were…

The seventh KHOJ International Workshop was held in Bengaluru at the Venkatappa Art Gallery. By bringing together both local and international artists, the workshop aimed to formulate interesting conversations and dialogues between artists located all across the globe, whilst enabling stronger public visibility for participating artists and organisations. This collaborative project between artists has not only helped bridge the palpable…