Vibha Galhotra Kaithal, Haryana, India, b.1978
Vibha Galhotra (b. 1978, Kaithal, Haryana, India) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the environmental, political, and economic turbulences shaping contemporary urban life. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory projects, Galhotra interrogates accelerated transformations brought by globalisation and their impact on ecology, labour, and collective futures. Her work often employs reclaimed, industrial, and ephemeral materials to create site-responsive interventions that highlight both human and ecological systems in flux. Galhotra has exhibited at major museums and institutions including Asia Society, New York; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; San José Museum of Art; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. She has participated in significant group exhibitions such as Nature and State (Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022), Breathing (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2022), and Markers of Phantasmopolis (8th Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan, 2023). Nature Morte has presented her work in recent solo exhibitions, including Solastalgia (Mumbai, 2025) and Silent Seasons (New Delhi, 2022–23). Her work is held in public and private collections including the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; The Margulies Collection, USA; Pizzuti Collection, USA; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA; and Singapore Art Museum.
Galhotra’s work is currently featured in Desert X AlUla 2026, the fourth edition of the international, open-air art exhibition in Saudi Arabia, as part of the Space Without Measure programme. At AlUla, she presents a new site-specific iteration of her ongoing series Future Fables. Nature Morte has recently presented Future Fables at Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg; Nature Morte Mumbai; and The Sculpture Park, Jaipur.
She currently lives and works in New Delhi, India.