Overview
Beirut-born, Mumbai-bred, Vikram Divecha is an artist based in Dubai. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and was a participant of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program. Divecha’s practice shifts between public art, site-specific interventions, installation, film, painting, drawing, photography and text.
His practice raises questions about time, value and authorship by engaging people across urban and social spheres, and working with available material and space. Divecha terms this approach as ‘found processes’, which often sees him intervene within public and social systems. From wholesale exporters to municipal gardeners, architectural consultants to railway traffic managers, Divecha’s participants inform and shape his projects in various ways, at times for sustained durations. 
 
His new 34:00 mins film Dohrana (2021) commissioned by Warehouse 421 continues his collaboration with Sharjah Municipality gardeners, displacing the romance of Urdu poetry, choreographic postures, movements and music with the ever-green aesthetics of public roundabouts and traffic islands. 
 
Works
  • Vikram Divecha, Untitled Scene (Aimless Calligraphy, August 3), 2022
    Untitled Scene (Aimless Calligraphy, August 3), 2022
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.3), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.3), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.1), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.1), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.2), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.2), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.4), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.4), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.5), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.5), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.6), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.6), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.7), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.7), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.8), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.8), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.9), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.9), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.10), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.10), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.11), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.11), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.12), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.12), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.13), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.13), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.14), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.14), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.15), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.15), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.16), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.16), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.17), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.17), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.18), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.18), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.19), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.19), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Resting Bodies (Island No.20), 2024
    Resting Bodies (Island No.20), 2024
  • Vikram Divecha, Kitchen wall, 4th floor, Apt No.16, Khalifa building (Habib Bank building), Hisn Avenue (Bank Street), Al Shuwaiheen, Sharjah, 2021
    Kitchen wall, 4th floor, Apt No.16, Khalifa building (Habib Bank building), Hisn Avenue (Bank Street), Al Shuwaiheen, Sharjah, 2021
  • Vikram Divecha, Corridor archway, 4th floor, Apt No.16, Khalifa building (Habib Bank building), Hisn Avenue (Bank Street), Al Shuwaiheen, Sharjah, 2021
    Corridor archway, 4th floor, Apt No.16, Khalifa building (Habib Bank building), Hisn Avenue (Bank Street), Al Shuwaiheen, Sharjah, 2021
  • Vikram Divecha, The relationship between wood and sunlight, 2018
    The relationship between wood and sunlight, 2018
  • Vikram Divecha, Gallery 354, 2019
    Gallery 354, 2019
  • Vikram Divecha, Improvisations (2.B.287), 2021
    Improvisations (2.B.287), 2021
  • Vikram Divecha, Google Images search entry: Withdrawn; Device: iPhone SE (A1723); Display aspect ratio 16:9, 2019
    Google Images search entry: Withdrawn; Device: iPhone SE (A1723); Display aspect ratio 16:9, 2019
  • Vikram Divecha, Google Images search entry: Displaces; Device: iPhone SE (A1723); Display aspect ratio 16:9, 2019
    Google Images search entry: Displaces; Device: iPhone SE (A1723); Display aspect ratio 16:9, 2019
  • Vikram Divecha, Southwest window facade (Cropped view), Gallery 354, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
    Southwest window facade (Cropped view), Gallery 354, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
  • Vikram Divecha, Southwest window facade (Cropped view), Gallery 354, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
    Southwest window facade (Cropped view), Gallery 354, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
  • Vikram Divecha, Bathing Boulders, 2017
    Bathing Boulders, 2017
  • Vikram Divecha, Photostaging Boulder Plot (2014), 2017
    Photostaging Boulder Plot (2014), 2017
  • Vikram Divecha, Boulder Plot, 2014
    Boulder Plot, 2014
  • Vikram Divecha, Beej, 2017
    Beej, 2017
  • Vikram Divecha, Train to Rouen, 2017
    Train to Rouen, 2017
  • Vikram Divecha, Warehouse Project, 2016
    Warehouse Project, 2016
  • Vikram Divecha, Shaping Resistance, 2015
    Shaping Resistance, 2015
  • Vikram Divecha, Fee Transfer, 2017
    Fee Transfer, 2017
  • Vikram Divecha, Portrait Sessions, 2016
    Portrait Sessions, 2016
  • Vikram Divecha, Negative heaps (of designated waste), 2015
    Negative heaps (of designated waste), 2015
  • Vikram Divecha, Miziara Architects, 2014
    Miziara Architects, 2014
  • Vikram Divecha, Facade No.2, 2014
    Facade No.2, 2014
  • Vikram Divecha, Facade No.3, 2014
    Facade No.3, 2014
  • Vikram Divecha, Surface No. 5, 2012
    Surface No. 5, 2012
  • Vikram Divecha, Reclaimed Void, 2013
    Reclaimed Void, 2013
Exhibitions
External
News
Press
Publications