Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaart (b. 1980, New Delhi, India) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores migration, memory, identity, and the passage of time. She received her BFA and MFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, studied art history and Italian at the Università per Stranieri, Siena, and continued her visual art studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Working across photography, drawing, sculpture, textiles, and sound, Chopra develops a poetic visual language grounded in questions of home, cultural landscapes, and intergenerational memory. Her works often navigate the space between the physical and the emotional, evoking fragility, regeneration, and cyclical notions of time while reflecting on displacement, belonging, and the preservation of personal and collective histories.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and major platforms including solo exhibitions at Musée Guimet, Paris (2021), The Gujral Foundation, New Delhi (2020), Nature Morte, New Delhi (2025), and 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai (2022), as well as the 56th Venice Biennale (Transnational Pavilion), Kochi–Muziris Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit, and Asia Now, Paris. Her work has also been shown at the Essl Museum, Vienna, Casa Masaccio – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, and Museo Luigi Pecci di Prato. She has undertaken residencies at the School of Visual Arts, New York, Space 118, Mumbai, and Atelier 2221 Edition Studio, New Delhi.

She lives and works in New Delhi, India.

W. Van Der Vaart, Imaginary Landscapes - Shimla, Rawalpindi, 2024, 116×91cm

2024