Gr(and) Un(if)ying The(or)y 

Himali is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss, and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. Her speculations are performed in audio-visual, immersive environments.

BOOKS

• Static Range | commissioned by The Art Institute of Chicago | 2022

Dist. by Printed Matter | NYC, Art Insitute of Chicago | Chicago, Serpentine | London, subcontinentment books | Delhi

Accompanied by the film, static range.

• ancestors of the blue moon | commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery | 2021

Dist. by Printed Matter | NYC, Whitechapel Gallery | London, Hopscotch | Berlin, subcontinentment books | Delhi

Accompanied by a gong bath and the ritual film, as grand as what.

• we are opposite like that | commissioned by India Foundation for the Arts | 2020

Dist. by Printed Matter | NYC, Forma | London, subcontinentment books | Delhi

Accompanied by one-to-one tarot readings

Selected Exhibitions

2024

an omniscience | Kiasma | Finland

The Heart of a Giraffe | Czech Pavilion | Venice Biennale

The One Straw Revolution | Framer Framed | Amsterdam

2023

Geopoetics | MACBA | Barcelona

Postscript of Silence | Ming Museum of Contemporary Art | Shanghai

Gaian Ecologies | Camden Art Centre | London

Energy Cultures | Castello di Rivoli | Turin

Deep Knowledge | Kunsthalle Mainz | Mainz

our quake here ever feels | 5 Radio Stations | World

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology | ICI | Block Museum of Art

Dissolving Earths | Undead Matter with Nieuwe Institut + Documenta Institut

4.5 Billion Years | Brief Histories | NYC

Dear Earth | Hayward Gallery | London

Everybody Talks about the Weather | Foundation Prada | Venice Architecture Biennale

Namak Nazar | DesertX | California

2022

Static Range | The Art Institute Chicago | Chicago [SOLO]

The Third Pole (with music by David Soin Tappeser) | Museo Thyssen | Madrid [SOLO]

Too Much and Not Enough | International Sculpture Prize | Henraux Foundation | Tuscany

Body of Light | Serpentine Park Night | London

Cloud Walkers | Static Range | Leeum Museum | Seoul

Luleå Biennale | Sweden

Unweaving the binary code | Kunsthall Trondheim | Norway

Tides of the Body | Solid Art | Taipei

Silicontology | Machine Magic/Techno Poetics | Somerset House

Static Range | Vulnerable Critters | La Casa Encendida | Madrid

an omniscience: an atmos-etheric, transnational, interplanetary cosmist bird opera spanning seven continents and the many verses | Biennale Gherdëina | Bolzano + Mattatoio | Rome

Echoes | as grand as what | Haus Der Kunst | Munich

New Natures| Static Range | Goethe Institut | Bombay

2021

Static Range | Cashmere Radio, Radio Al Hara

Vulnerable beings | A public assembly on the space and time of epidemics | MAAT, Lisbon

as grand as what | RUPERT | Vilnius

Brow of a God / Jaw of a Devil | Orleans House Gallery | London | [SOLO] with Alexis Rider

Static Range | Becoming Mothers, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti | EWERK | Berlin + KAI10 | Arthena Foundation | Düsseldorf

we are opposite like that live score | Forma Arts | London | [SOLO with David Soin Tappeser]

Static Range | Sheffield Doc Fest Radio Programme

Ritual Telepathy at the relic-chamber | Fuso Festival | Lisboa + Center for Contemporary Arts | Celje

setting a stage for a gathering of friends | Artist’s Film International | Project88| Istanbul Modern

Crossing Currents | Galerie Nordenhake | Mexico City

Static Range | WePresent + Serpentine Galleries | London

as grand as what | Bodies of Water II | Shanghai Biennale | Shanghai

Across the way with | Shimmer | Rotterdam

2020

in the spirit of the fountain | a performance at Pompeii | Pompeii Commitment

Bodies of Water I | Shanghai Biennale | Shanghai

The Particle and The Wave | Syncopes | Performance| Mimosa House | London

Wildness Distant | Columbia University | Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 

Trail blazing into the unknown | Museo Thyssen - TBA 21

Hypertropia | State-Studio | Berlin

Star(s) Speak | VBKO| Vienna

Women of the North | Anchorage Museum| Alaska

CC: World | HKW |Berlin

Splitting the Atom | Contemporary Art Centre | Vilnius

To Dream Effectively | Focal Point Gallery | Southend-on-Sea

Down to Earth | Gropius Bau | Berlin

Instructions for living a life | Block Universe | London

So remember the liquid ground | Gasworks | London

Carrier Bag of Fiction | HKW + Ignota Books | Berlin

Extra-Terrestrial Currents | Obsidian Coast | Bradford-on-Avon

Potential Worlds: Ruins of Today and Eco-Fictions of Tomorrow | Migros Museum | Zurich

Dhaka Art Summit | Dhaka

Quoz | Block Universe | Dubai

2019

Poetry | Castello di Rivoli | Museum of Contemporary Art | Turin

The Body Series: New Suns | Somerset House | London

The Deep Listener at Serpentine Park Nights | London

subcontinentment at Whitechapel gallery curated by Block Universe | London

a plot for the multiverse at indigo+madder | London

thinking like an island at St. Paul’s Cathedral | London

Radar Level at The New Flesh | London

Giving Birth in Beauty at King’s College curated by Birthrites and Pro.Create | London

we are opposite like that at Swiss Embassy opening of the India Art Fair | Delhi

2018

Lapsus/Kairos at Serendipity Arts Festival | Goa

iilwimi lipsing at Primary | Nottingham

To Tehran in my Dreams at Brick Bar | Riga

The Particle and the Wave at The Conference on Virginia Woolf | Canterbury

Silicontology for 'Adventitious Encounters' at Open Space Contemporary | London

2017

Lapsus / Kairos for ‘Delirium & Destiny’ at A Tale of a Tub | Rotterdam

Lapsus / Kairos for 'Art Night London' + Whitechapel Gallery at Arnold Circus | London

The Particle and The Wave for ‘Archival Alchemy’ at Abrons Art Centre | New York City

Radar Level for 12ø's ‘nawki’ curated by The White Pube | Liverpool

Distance of the Moon for ‘Mientras desaparezca’ at Ladrón Galeria | Mexico City

Radar Level for ‘All of the Above; None of the Above’ at Mela House | Oslo

HELLO GIRLS! at No Vacancy | Brooklyn 

2016

Transit with Agency of Singular Investigations | Fabrika | Moscow

Rift | ‘The Missing One’ at Dhaka Art Summit & OCA | Dhaka, Oslo

To Tehran in my Dreams for ‘Love in the Time of Choleric Capital' at JNU | Delhi

Radar Level for ‘Frozen World of a Familiar Stranger’ at Kadist + Khoj | San Francisco, Delhi

The Paris Follies for ‘Laughter and Forgetting’ at The Meet Factory, Art Week | Prague, Bucharest

Giving Birth to Beauty for Birthrites | Manchester

Fortune for ‘Canning Time’ at el chap'eau for Art Licks | London

Selected videos for ‘Zayn Malik Zindabad’ at ICA curated by The White Pube | London

The Abyss of Space for ‘Sea Change’ at Mosaic Rooms | London

In the Meantime for ‘Sham Romance’ at Chalton Gallery | London

One and I for ‘John in a Cage’ at Chalton Gallery | London

hybrid / simultaneous or the disembodiment of non-artificial intelligence at Kelder | London

2015

You Really Got Me Now | London, Berlin, Delhi, Bombay, Goa, Pune, Guayaquil

The Time Machine for The Deleted World at 5th Base Gallery | London

Anti-Natural at Apiary Salon | London

Love letter to Outer Space [in collab with Buzz Aldrin] | In-Flight

The Particle and The Wave for Plants, Machines, Animals and Objects! at Sector 2337 | Chicago

The Clockmaker’s Reverie for An Avalanche of Subtlety at Pi Artworks | London

Safe Travels for sofltly overrripe at Ha Ha Gallery | Southampton

In the Meantime at Greenwich Observatory | London

2013 - 2014

On Erasure for New Models for Common Ground for Insert at the IGNCA | New Delhi

The Last International with Raqs Media Collective for Performa 13 | New York City

The Museum of Habit at Devi Art Foundation | New Delhi

Residencies

Research residency | Alserkal | Dubai, 2024

Artist in Residence | Amant | New York City, 2023

Artist in Residence | Palm Heights | Caribbean, 2021

Writer-in-residence | Whitechapel Gallery | London, 2020-2021

Writer-in-residence | Open Space Contemporary | Digital, 2020

Arctic Circle Residency | Svalbard, 2017

Lumen Studios | London, 2016

Artslant Writer’s Residency | Paris, 2015

ICA + Goldsmiths | Moscow, 2015

BAR1 | Bangalore, 2010

TALKS

Majlis Talks | Alserkal Arts Foundation | Dubai

Earth.rise Studio | London

Urgency Intensive: IPACC | Jan Van Eyck | Maastricht

World as archipelago | advaya

The World Around | Guggenheim | New York City

Healing from Meteorites | Art Talksss | Institut Kunst Gender Natur | Basel

Lectures and tutorials | MFA, MA and PhD | Goldsmiths, RCA, Slade

Daughters of the Snow | BBC Radio 4

Non-Linear Time | Arco Madrid

Shifting geographies with Andrea Bagnato and Samantha Ozer | PIN-UP Magazine

Five Bodies | Poetry Series | Nottingham Contemporary

How to recover presence in crisis | Keynote Lecture | Architectural Association London

(Re)Constitutions of Choice | University of Pennsylvania

Climate Justice from Decolonialist perspectives | FACT

Watery Witnesses: LOOP Talks | Barcelona

Indian Ocean Gyres | TBA21 Academy

Urban Ecologies | Frieze Academy | Singapore Biennale

Is Extinction Imminent? | University of Canterbury | Kent

Can the Arts Affect Climate Change? | FT Weekend Festival | London

Comparative Futurisms | Afro-Asian Perspectives on the Future | Art Basel | Hong Kong

What is Art Writing? | India Art Fair

Curatorial

2021 curatorial team of Momenta Biennale | Montreal

2020 jury member for the Frieze Artist Award

2019 how we came to be three: a lecture concert by David Soin Tappeser at Raven Row | London  

2017 [Ideas Table] GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! for the Serpentine Marathon | London

2016 Videokills: Invisible City Symphonies| London

2015 Minor Delay at Lumen Studios | London

2013-14 We are Ours: Manifestos at Khoj Studios & Clark House Initiative | Delhi, Bombay

2012 Reconstructing White³ | The Loft, Bombay

2011 Words: A User’s Manual at Exhibit 320 | Delhi

Publications

Protodispatch | art work magazine | Artforum | Ignota | Momus | Canvas| Artsy | BOMB | National Geographic | Suitcase | Orlando| Obieg | CNN Travel | VICE | Caravan | Ocula | Front | ArtSlant |  The Outdoor Journal | National Geographic Traveler | The Hindu | The Fuschia Tree Arts Zine | Vogue | TAKE on Art | Art India | Indian Contemporary Art Journal | The Telegraph | Tehelka | Office of Contemporary Art Journal |

EDUCATION

MFA in Fine Art | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK | 2015

English  Literature | The Bread Loaf School Of English, USA | 2012-2017

Writing Poetry: Advanced Workshop | Iowa Writer’s Program, Online | 2013

Art Writing | Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, India | 2010         

The History of Contemporary Photography | Museum of Modern Art, USA | 2008         

Writing Fiction & Poetry | Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, USA | 2008                 

BA in Theater and English | Middlebury College, USA | 2008                                        

Theater of the Oppressed |  Goddard College, USA | 2004

IB Diploma | The United World College of India | 2004

COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, Kadist, TBA21, Birthrites, National Geographic, among others