Vijay Masharani (b. 1995, Bay Area, CA) is an artist and writer based in the Bay Area, CA.

He received his MA in Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies from University College London in 2022 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023.

In his studio practice, he makes videos and drawings on an ongoing basis, in a manner resembling life writing. In his critical writing, he comments on art, politics, illness, literature, and race.

Solo exhibitions include: Sequin, Shadow, Clima, Milan (2026); The Cure, Veronica, Seattle; Big Casino, curated by Otto Bonnen at Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (2025); 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: Benny’s Video, New York; No resolutions, Below Grand, New York (2026); The Screen is a Muscle, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Gallerie d’Italia, Turin;Bulldog Video Blog, April April, Pittsburgh; Pacing. Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Thievery, Offsite, Marin; God is Chance, Lucky Me,  Mery Gates, Brooklyn (2025); 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;  Pig Latin In Quicksand at Clima, Milan;  SUPERHOST at PANE PROJECT/Like a Little Disaster, Polignano A Mare (2019) and others.

His writing has appeared in Artforum, Parapraxis, e-flux, BOMB, Momus, X—TRA, and elsewhere.