Vijay Masharani (b. 1995, Bay Area, CA) is an artist based in Queens, New York.

In Masharani’s videos, expressions of power come under scrutiny where they are consistently rendered invisible and unassailable. Authority is not recognized plainly but is felt as an index of the larger structures standing behind fraught gestures and images. Masharani’s recent work puts forward a primer on how to read white supremacy’s encoding in the vastness of digital media. Wi- thin this decoding effort, there is space for recognition, poetry and proposal.

He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017 and he received an MA in Race, Ethnicity, Postcolonial Studies from University College, London in 2022.

Solo exhibitions include: Give me that fucking content, Universe. Salon 75, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024);  Permanent Water. hatred 2. Brooklyn, NY (2023); Vijay Masharani in dialogue with Lucio Fontana, Clima, Milan (2022); Triage. Clima. Milan, Italy (2021) ; #38: Gas, Honey with Raza Kazmi at Museum Gallery, New York (2019); It Might Be Warm But It’s Not Clean with Trisha Cheeney at High-Tide, Philadelphia (2017).

Select group exhibitions include: Overload, New Uncanny, Brooklyn, NY, But looking back, ah never!, Cherry Hill, Cologne, Germany, Plant E/O, Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA, Crisis at night (screening). Crisis, Lima, Peru, The Apple Stretching. Helena Anrather, New York (2024);Tante Care Cose. Clima, Milan, Italy, Internal Combustion (screening). Sara’s, New York, NY, Strong Winds Ahead, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Creating its own occasions as a stage does, JUF Project, Madrid, Spain, SOTTOTRACCIA, Milano Metro Stations, Milan, Italy (2023) Center for Experimental Lectures. Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, A dim light blinking really far away in the distance. Titanik. Turku, Finland. 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Ann Arbor, MI (2022); This dialogue which happened to be present in all previous dialogues. Alyssa Davis Gallery. New York, NY. Social Photography IX. Carriage Trade. New York, NY K as in Knight at Helena Anrather, New York (2021); FREE FALL at Shoot the Lobster LA (2021); Still Life at Drawer NYC (2020), Bangalore Flat at Home Sweet Home, Bangalore (2019), U:L:O at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2019), Pig Latin In Quicksand at Clima, Milan (2019), SUPERHOST at PANE PROJECT/Like a Little Disaster, Polignano A Mare (2019), Pure Raw at RESORT, Baltimore (2018), and others.