Distant whispers and lucid dreams 11, 2025
Sahil Naik (b. 1991) draws from a range of disciplines and exercises, including architectural practice, forensics, archeology and landscape painting to conjure propositional images.
His works were included in the 17th Lyon Biennale curated by Alexia Fabre, the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by Shubigi Rao and the 5th Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara curated by Adrian Notz. He has exhibited with In ruins at the Matera National Museums, Italy; TBA 21 on st_age; and at Foundation Elpis, Milan; How to reappear curated by Kayfa ta at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, MMAG Foundation in Amman and the Beirut Art Center; Vitrine in Basel; Delfina Foundation and Asia House in London; Khoj International Artists’ Association and the Serendipity Arts Festival, India; and the Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan and with HH Art Spaces in Goa.
His solo presentations include Spectres, Specimens and Ships in Doubt (2023); All Is Water And To Water We Must Return (2021); Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism (2020) and Ground Zero (2017) at Experimenter, Kolkata.
He was a recipient of Five Million Incidents, instituted by Goethe Institut New Delhi with RAQS Media Collective. He was awarded the inaugural Warehouse 421 Artistic Research Grant; the Arts (Productions) grant by the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore and was the inaugural recipient of the Prameya Art Foundation Publishing Grant for South Asia with VASL in Pakistan, Britto Arts Trust in Bangladesh and Theertha in Sri Lanka.
In 2025, Naik curated a trans-oceanic exhibition titled Not a shore, neither a ship, but the sea itself for Serendipity Arts Foundation’s tenth anniversary edition in Goa.
His first artist book was published by Roli Books in 2025.
The artist lives and works in Goa, India.