Vikram Divecha

Beirut-born, Mumbai-bred, Vikram Divecha is an artist based in Dubai. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and was a participant of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study programme. Divecha’s practice shifts between public art, site-specific interventions, installation, film, painting, drawing, photography and text. His practice raises questions about time, value and authorship by engaging people across urban and social spheres, and working with available material and space. Divecha terms this approach as ‘found processes’, which often sees him intervene within public and social systems. From wholesale exporters to municipal gardeners, architectural consultants to railway traffic managers, Divecha’s participants inform and shape his projects in various ways, at times for sustained durations.

His new 34:00 mins film Dohrana (2021) commissioned by Warehouse 421 continues his collaboration with Sharjah Municipality gardeners, displacing the romance of Urdu poetry, choreographic postures, movements and music with the ever-green aesthetics of public roundabouts and traffic islands.

Exhibitions include: Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; The Jewish Museum, NY; Wallach Art Gallery, NY; 57th Venice Biennale; 13th Sharjah Biennial; Louvre Abu Dhabi; Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai; Alserkal Avenue, Dubai; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. Grants, commissions and scholarships: Sharjah Art Foundation; the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture; institut français; the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation. Residencies: Land Art Mongolia; Temporary Art Platform, Lebanon. His work is included in the collections of Art Jameel, H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, and Maraya Art Centre.