She works with lens-based media: photo, video, and the moving image, as well as performance, text, drawing, sound, music, voice, and installation.
Sonia made her debut solo exhibition, consisting of moving image works, in Delhi, India, in the year 2000, after returning from the U.K.
Her single channel video Bird, produced in 1999 while she was at the Royal College of Arts in London placed her both within the feminist discourse, as well as among the emerging generation of artists working with digital media.
2014 January to March: Oneiric house, an off-site exhibition with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, at Outset India foundation in Jorbagh.
2007 June to August: Still moving image, recent digital and video works, Gallerie Jousse Enterprise, Paris.
2000 September to October: Lone women don't lie first solo exposition of work in video and digital media.
Group exhibitions: 2015 February: Progress and hyegine, Zacheta, National gallery of Modern art Warsaw.
Curator Priya Pall 2014 November to 2015 January: Ethereal, Leila Heller Gallery, New York curator Dr. Amin Jaffer 2014 November: Drawing 2014 - Seven Decades of Indian Drawing Gallery Espace, New Delhi Co-curator Annapurna Garimella, jackfruit Arts.
curator Diana Campbell 2012 June to September: How am I: exhibition, eight artists from India and Denmark, Kastrupgaard Samlingen, Copenhagen and LKA, New Delhi.
2008 August: Still Moving image inaugural exhibition of the Devi Art Foundation, Delhi 2008/2007 July, April: Les Rencontres Internationales Berlin, Madrid, Paris.
2008 February: A season of film at Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin 2007 March: Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn museum.
Curators: Bernhardt Fibicher, Suman Gopinath 2007 September to 2008: Public places Private Spaces, contemporary photography and video art in India.
2007 November to December: Out of the Box: Carolee Schneemann and her influence on young contemporary gallery Elga Wimmer, New York.
2006 November: Canarias Media art Festival, Grand Canary Island 2006 October: Pasaeges, Palais de Bozar, Brussels.
2000 October: KHOJ International workshop (through the Triangle Trust), Modinagar, India 1998 summer: Studio Residency at the Ecole Internationale DesArts, Paris, for the students of Royal College of art, London.
[ I realized the video project ‘five visits ] 2003: A modest support grant by Josine De Bruyn Kops Fonds for visual media Artists, the Netherlands.
Recent participations in talks, seminars and performance events: 2015 September: Panelist for the B.B.C., art hour, staged at the British council, New Delhi.
2015 February: "body matters/bodis matter: Performance lecture by Sonia Khurana, on the occasion of the closing of the exhibition: progress and hygiene at the Zachenta Nations Museum of modern art, Warsaw.
2013 March: Symposium: ‘On scale, site and poetics of recent exhibitions, speaker, for the panel on ‘Vision Documenta’, at School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
2010 July to August: A performance-led workshop at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, working with local youth and women students from girls school 2010 June: Invited to the art department, at the University o Kansas, for a recce trip, in order to explore and research themes for a performance-led workshop with students.
2010 May: " Beyond the spectacle: Performance practices and audience experiments" closed-door, think tank at the Museum of modern art, New York.
Guest teaching: Small publications on artists’ solo exhibitions: Oneiric house: round about midnight: moving image, music, text.
an off-site exhibition with the Kiran Nadar Museum of art, New Delhi, at Outset India foundation in Jorbagh.
Select essays on/including Sonia Khurana [apart from minor texts in all exhibition catalogues] Difficult loves : Seven Contemporaries, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.
‘lying down on the ground: additional notes’, a Proposal-as-poem, by Sonia Khurana, Published in 2010 Oct to Dec, in the book, West Heavens, By Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong.
An Essay on Sonia Khurana, focusing on the video: head hand, by Brinda Kuma and Latika Gupta, for the exhibition, Self into Social, Deptt of arts and aesthetics, J.N.U.
2005 March Nowhere: Addressing place in video/installation art from India: the works of Sonia Khurana, Navjot Altaf, Shilpa Gupta and Vivan Sundaram by Dr. Elena Bernadini on for Tate publications, 2004 A Phenomenology of Origins: Sonia Khurana in Sonia Khurana: for Lone Women Don't Lie New Delhi: Max Mueller Bhavan and The British Council, New Delhi Calcutta: Published as Exhibition catalogue essay, in 2000, and as a chapter in Dr. Waiwright's Phd thesis at SOAS.
Gender Mobility: Through the Lens of Five Women Artists, and essay by Dr. Geeta Kapur, including a comprehensive section on arstis Sonia Khurana.
The Logic of Birds: Points of Departure for Indian Women Artists by Nancy Adajania, for the publication: Tiger by the Tail Rose Museum, Brandies University, Boston.
2007 October The first, comprehensive monograph on Sonia Khurana's work, is to be published by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi in 2016.