Their body of work spans the mediums of drawing, collage, installation and video. Their preoccupations center around displacement and queer ecologies with an emphasis on decolonization, botany, explorations of memory and the idea of home.
Their latest solo show was PSYCHOPOMP, TARQ, Mumbai, 2023. Their other solo exhibitions include Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound, TARQ, Mumbai, 2019; Travails of the Wandering MemorySeed, Galerie Félix Frachon, Brussels, 2016; Domus Vulgus, The Guild NY, New York 2010.
In 2021 they participated in a two-month residency at the Botanical Garden of Geneva. They took part in the Dhaka Art Summit (February 2020) and have participated in several group shows including Claustrophobia Alpina, Forde, Geneva; Nature You Are, Theatre Benno Besson in collaboration with Centre d’Art Contemporain Yverdon, Yverdon-Les-Bains 2022; Heat, Le Labo, Geneva 2022; (ME)MORY, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2021; Remembering the Present, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2018; Carnets, Halle Nord, Geneva, 2017; Raving Disco Dolly on a Rock ‘n’ Roll Trolley, Envoy Enterprises, New York, 2014; Considering Collage, Jhaveri Contemporary, Bombay, 2013.
Makanji lives and works in Geneva.