Mallika Taneja lives and works out of New Delhi, India. Through performances, installations, and curatorial work, she explores questions of gender, solidarity, pleasure, rest, and remembering. She is particularly interested in exploring political possibilities of performative assembly and the role songs play in drawing/moving and gathering people, places, and things. 

Some of her works and collaborative projects include Be Careful, Allegedly, Rest of the Struggle, Zanana ka Zamana, and Sex Chat Room. She won the ZKB Acknowledgment Prize for 'Be Careful' in 2015, the ZKB Patronage Prize for 'Allegedly' in 2021, and the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Award for ‘Do You Know This Song?’ in 2024.

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Mallika initiated Women Walk at Midnight, a practice of women walking at night time in their cities, in 2016 and has since then been building the practice and leading the Delhi chapter. She has also been initiating and incubating walks and chapters of the practice globally.