Ohida Khandakar

Ohida

Khandakar

Portrait photograph of Khandakar Ohida, visual artist and film practitioner from Hooghly, India, based in Almere, the Netherlands.


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.

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 in traveling exhibition at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2025-2026) and currently on view at Asian Cultural Center( 2026)