Suruchi Choksi

Suruchi Choksi is a Mumbai-based artist whose practice spans painting, photography, sculpture, and multimedia. Driven by a sense of awe and reverence for the everyday, her work explores the magical within the mundane, moving between micro and macrocosms.

Choksi’s practice often originates in mark-making—traces of something emerging even as something else dissolves in form and presence. Grounded in Buddhist thought, her work reflects on interconnection, change, and the fleeting nature of experience. Moving between the tangible and the abstract, she works through a delicate interplay of addition and omission, acceptance and refusal, belonging and isolation. Extending this approach into text-based work and poetry, she explores the limits and possibilities of language. Through concrete poetry and asemic writing, she engages the fluidity of words and scripts, loosening them from fixed meaning.

Choksi has exhibited across India in solo and group exhibitions, including Conjunctions at Art Exposure, Kolkata (2024); India Art Fair, New Delhi (2016, 2025); Design AD Hyderabad with Art & Charlie, Mumbai (2025); Art Mumbai (2024); and Reliquaries: The Remembered Self and Memento Mori at Tarq Gallery, Mumbai (2015). Earlier exhibitions include Unbelong: Illustrated Antipodes (Afghan Church and What About Art?, Mumbai, 2014), Memoir at The Loft, Lower Parel, Mumbai, and Burnt Sienna at Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai (2006), among others.

Choksi is also a published author. Her book Svayam Se Parichay is a translation of Into the Heart of Life by the Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (LTWA, 2022). She has also published a collection of poems, Emptying the Void (Red River Publishing, 2024), along with a limited-edition artist book of the same title.

In addition to her artistic and literary practice, Choksi serves as administrator of Buddha Pada Institute in Kalimpong, is a board member of Siddhartha’s Intent India and Tergar Nalanda Foundation, and a partner at Mesh Foundation, Mumbai, which supports marginalised communities. She is an active CBCT® (Compassion Training) teacher certified by Emory University.