Amit Kalra is an artist working in video and sculpture. His practice engages performative systems and institutional grammars, examining how symbolic structures operate across opacity and aesthetic legibility, often attending to moments structured to pass unnoticed. Kalra holds a graduate degree from the Royal College of Art and teaches in the MFA Communications Design program at Pratt Institute.

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100 dollar, 20 dollar, 5 dollar bill, 2025. Single-channel video, sound; 21 minutes and 54 seconds.



Drifting Away and Lukewarm, 2024. Single-channel video, sound; 37 minutes and 58 seconds.


Highly Effective People, 2023, single-channel video, sound; 1 hour and 58 minutes.




Manifest Destiny, 2023. Books and plastic trophy, 10 x 6 x 16 in; audio, 58 minutes and 9 seconds.




Saddle Bag, 2023. Found leather bag; 19 x 14 x 10 in.

 



You Lie, 2023. Single-channel video and audio, 19 minutes and 12 seconds; recliner chair, 3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 ft.



Joy Machine, 2023. Single-channel video, sound; 75 minutes and 9 seconds.




Calf, Man, Carriage, 2023. Single-channel video, sound; 58 minutes and 19 seconds.




Untitled, 2020. Found cement block; 7.75 x 14.25 x 7.25 in.

Untitled, 2020. Found cement block with iron rod; 7.75 x 15.5 x 5 in.