KOOJ CHUHAN

digital artist, film maker,
creative producer and manager,
educational and cultural projects

>> Winner, Spirit of Manchester Award 2024 for Creative Community
>> Finalist, Manchester Culture Award 2024 for Culture & Education

 

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Most of Kooj's work is available to view at the following sites of
organisations which Kooj has led, and with so much of Kooj's work being
collaborative in nature these sites give a good sense of his work:

www.crossingfootprints.com
which includes the most recent work.
Kooj is currently the director of Crossing Footprints.

www.virtualmigrants.net
a ground-breaking artists' collective
originally formed around 1999.
Earlier work (up until around 2012) is mostly archived HERE.

koojchuhan.wordpress.com
which is a blog-style site put up around 2013-2014
with some worthwhile posts about projects around that time.

Kooj's old website
which lists and gives brief summaries of his early work.

 

Kooj Chuhan – Brief Artist Showreel on Vimeo:

 

 

Selected Exhibitions

·         Powerhouse  Moss Side 2023 – “Powerhouse Portraits” community photography collaborative exhibition

·         Manchester Histories Festival  2022 – “Climate Connections” video installation Manchester / Oldham

·         People's History Museum  2020 – "Viva Declaration" borders and rights live video+music & installation

·         HOME arts centre  Manchester 2018 – “Hostile Detainment” performed protest enactment

·         Commonword  Manchester 2018 – "Heritage Carrot" augmented reality art with writer Maya Chowdhry

·         Manchester Central Library  2017 – “The Poppy Retake” video installation, colonialism and WWI

·         5 Theatres across UK  2015 – “Ethical People Movement” video art for ‘Continent Chop Chop’ tour

·         5 Venues in Durham  2015 – “Footprint Modulation” exhibition on climate migration (as curator-director)

·         The Vale  Mossley 2015 – ‘Chamada From Chico Mendes’ climate justice interactive video-art

·         Doh Mix Meh Up  Oxford 2014 Diaspora Arts Exhibition – “Buy This (v3)” video installation

·         Manchester Museum  2013  – “90 Degree Citizen” (as curator / producer) artworks by refugees

·         Monitor 9  South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada 2013 – “Buy This (v3)” video installation

·         Z-Arts  Manchester 2013  – “Committed To Represent” portable panels of photography and texts

·         Turnpike Gallery  Leigh, UK 2012 – “Infusion” set of installations with video, photography, text, banners

·         Platforma Festival  London 2011  – “Buy This (v3)” climate justice and refugees video installation

·         Bcubico Art Centre  Recife, Brazil 2011  – “Resonance” interactive ROM installation

·         Delhi International Arts Festival  2010 – selected artists’ films for the Academy of Electronic Arts

·         Arnolfini Gallery  Bristol 2009 – “The Centre Cannot Hold” climate justice installation + performances

·         SIGGRAPH 2007  San Diego, USA – “What If I’m Not Real” multi-screen installation + performances

·         Asian Contemporary Art Week  American Museum of Folk Art, New York, USA 2006 – “Rekindle I”

·         Watermans Arts Centre  London 2005  – “What If I’m Not Real” asylum & globalisation installation

·         The Manchester Museum  2004  – “From H To O” interactive projected installation

·         Espace Multimedia Gantner  Bourogne, France 2003 – “Resonance” (permanent acquisition)

·         The Manchester Museum  2003  – “Rekindle” installation (commission / permanent acquisition)

·         The ICA (New Media Centre), London  2002  – “Terminal Frontiers” screen installations

·         Castlefield Gallery  Manchester 2002  – “Terminal Frontiers” migration, asylum, globalisation exhibition

·         “AfterShock” Commonwealth Games art exhibition, Manchester 2002  – “Metamotion” installation

·         St George’s Hall  Liverpool 2002  – “Boundless Sky” multi-screen dance installation

·         The Manchester United Museum 2001 – “From Punjab To Football” video installation

·         ISEA 2000  Paris, France  – “Resonance” Interactive ROM

·         Lovebytes  Int’l Electronic Art Festival 1999, Sheffield  – “Resonance” Interactive ROM

·         Oldham Art Gallery  1999  – “Resonance” multi-screen interactive installations on migration to Oldham

·         Video Positive 95 + 97  Festivals, Liverpool  – incl. “Nachural Struggle” interactive ROM installation