Ohida
Khandakar
Ohida Khandakar is a visual artist and film practitioner originally from Hooghly, India, currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her practice spans lens-based media, drawings, paintings, and installation art, drawing from personal encounters, marginalized rural voices, acts of women’s resistance, decolonization methodologies, and nonlinear narratives across societal strata. She aspires to create alternative museum narratives that challenge traditional methods of representing objects and artifacts.
Ohida is working in a long-term collaboration with her uncle, Khandakar Selim, titled Museum on the Moon, which traces an intimate struggle to re-imagine community museums in rural India.
Her film Dream Your Museum, based on her uncle’s story and her perspective on alternative museum-making, was featured at the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2022), and subsequently at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, as part of the public programming in the Ukraine Pavilion (2022). The film was also exhibited at The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg as part of a group exhibition in 2024. It won the Jameel Prize 7 at the V&A South Kensington, London, and Art Jameel, and is currently on view at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2026).
Ohida Khandakar’s first solo exhibition, A Thousand Thunders, was held at Project 88, Mumbai, India, in 2024. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally and nationally, including at Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne (2026); Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands (2025); Swiss Cottage Gallery, London (2025); World Trade Centre, Dubai (2025); Ames Yavuz Gallery, Sydney (2024); Bikaner House, New Delhi (2024); Serendipity Art Festival, Goa (2019, 2023); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2019); Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai (2019); Museum of Goa (2019); Alliance Francaise de Lahore, Lahore and Karachi (2019); and the Students Biennale in the Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2016), among others.
She is the recipient of the Jameel Prize 7 (2024), the Inlaks Fine Arts Award (2023), and the Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund (2023).