Areez Katki's practice dwells around conceptual and material-based intersections which survey the phenomenology of postcolonial identities. Fragmentations of migrant memory can be traced through objects and material culture in recesses that contain spiritual cosmologies and queering orientations. These relational embodiments, and correspondences with materiality, are underpinned in Sara Ahmed’s statement that, “Objects extend bodies, certainly, but they also seem to measure the competence of bodies and their capacity to ‘find their way’.” (‘The Orient and Other Others’ Queer Phenomenology 2006). Navigating across disciplines and pedagogies—from ethnographic, historic and anthropological to the domestic and matriarchal—Katki’s practice looks toward generating deeper understandings of affective material. His work tends to pose questions around conditions such as hybridity, particularly through embodiments that have been subject to rupture.

While investigative acts of gathering and conservation run throughout Katki’s nearly decade-long art practice, his writing contextualises the repurposing of historic material through ongoing engagements with storied narratives and biomythography. Both practices examine the historic and the personal, using gestures which survey the nature of (our) relationships with sites and embodiments.

Katki's work has been exhibited across Oceania, Asia, North America and Europe. Selections of his writing have been published in Matters, Art News, Art Now, Art Paper, The Pantograph Punch, Elle Magazine, Turbine | Kapohau, Drain Magazine and Scroll. Katki's work is held in various public and private collections internationally.

In Aotearoa New Zealand Areez Katki is represented by Tim Melville Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and by McLeavey Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

In India he is represented by Tarq Gallery, Mumbai.

Areez Katki is currently the artist in residence at Tylee House for the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui/Wanganui, where he will reside until July 2023.