Viraj Khanna is a visual artist from India who works with textile and embroidery. The first artist to be included in the Forbes '30 Under 30' lists in both India and Asia, his practice draws on themes of documentation and performativity in social media.
Khanna's narrative-driven works examine the imagery of perfection and people's desires to portray their most eye-catching and meaningful moments on social media. He employs three-dimensional threadwork to stylise these images into dreamlike compositions.
Khanna studied Business Administration at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2018) and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2025).
His solo exhibitions include: Why Did I Say Yes, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles (2025) What My Mother Didn't Teach Me at Gallery Art Exposure, Kolkata (2021), What My Mother Didn't Teach Me...And Some Things She Did! at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (2022), In My Fever Dream at Gallery Art Exposure, Bikaner House, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022), Ineffable at Tao Art Gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2023), Brain Rot: The Life You Live? at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, (2025) and Love Me, Love My Dog at Kalakriti Art Gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2025).
He has also participated in group exhibitions in India and internationally: Non Residency, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Jaipur Centre for Art, Jaipur (2025), The Personal is Mythical, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2025), To Look, and To Look Again, LATITUDE 28, Art Dubai, Dubai (2025), at India Design with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2025), 36 Paintings, Harper's East Hampton (2024), Like Share Subscribe, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024), Now Streaming, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024), Sutr Santati, curated by Lavina Baldota, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2024), Chivas Alchemy - Kaleidoscope of Time, Snowball Studios, Mumbai (2023), and Yours in Truth, curated by Saloni Doshi, Space 118, Mumbai (2022).
Khanna's work is held in several notable collections across the world including The Bunker Art Space, Miami; The Diane Allen Collection; the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, and the Michael and Susan Hort Collection, New York.
Viraj Khanna
b. 1995, Kolkata, India
Education
2025 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2018 BSc in Business Administration, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Why Did I Say Yes, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
2025 Love Me, Love My Dog, Kalakriti Art Gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2025 Brain Rot: The Life You Live? Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2023. Ineffable, Tao Art Gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2022 In My Fever Dream, Gallery Art Exposure, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2022 What My Mother Didn't Teach Me, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2021 What My Mother Didn't Teach Me, Gallery Art Exposure, Kolkata India.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Non Residency, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Jaipur Centre for Art, Jaipur, India
2025 The Personal is Mythical, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi, India
2025 Art Dubai, LATITUDE 28, Dubai, UAE
2025 India Design, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi, India
2024 36 Paintings, Harper's, East Hampton, USA
2024 Like Share Subscribe, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Now Streaming, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Sutr Santati, curated by Lavina Baldota at National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
2023 Chivas Alchemy - Kaleidoscope of Time, Snowball Studios, Mumbai, India
2022 Yours in Truth, curated by Saloni Doshi, Space 118, Mumbai, India
Selected Collections
The Bunker Art Space, Miami, USA
The Diane Allen Collection (location unspecified)
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India
The Michael and Susan Hort Collection, New York, USA