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Manjot Kaur’s (1989, India) drawings, paintings, and time-based media attempt to decolonize the sovereignty of ecology and women’s bodies. Her practice intersects the boundaries of speculative fiction, archetypal allegories, and precarious ecologies to push back against the centering of human as a protagonist and move toward a thinking that eradicates the hierarchy of being. Hailing from the rich tradition of Indian Miniature, the intimate paintings in gouache and watercolor on paper hybridize old narrations with new identities, conveying questions of relationality, reciprocity, and mutuality within natural, ancestral, and human worlds.
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Manjot Kaur at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, China | Group exhibition 'Green Snake: women-centred ecologies'
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Green Snake: Women-centered ecologies
she depicts a world of female deities living together as and among animals in a natural world full of unfamiliar beauty. The paintings are so painstakingly precise and immaculate while still otherworldly that the mythological realm opens up on the pages in front of you. The interconnectedness of human and animal, natural and mythological lies at the heart of these paintings and many of the works in the show, reminding us that this modern moment of dualisms, rapid development, and distance and dominance over nature wasn’t our species' only way of living as humans in the world.
Manjot Kaur
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In museum collection:
FRAC
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Casa Masaccio centro per l'arte contemporanea
Government Museum and Art Gallery
Lalit Kala Akademi (National Academy of Art)
Lalit Kala Akademi Chandigarh (State Academy of Art)
Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art)
Bhau Daji Lad Museum
In corporate collection:
TellusArt Sweden
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Manjot Kaur graduated from Government College of Art in Chandigarh (IN, 2006). She completed an artist in residence at Jan van Eyck Academie (NL, 2021), and a number of residencies in India, Italy and Switzerland. In 2023 Manjot will be a Visiting Artist Fellow at Harvard University in the USA. In 2022, she received a grant from Experimenter Gallery in India. Past exhibitions of Manjot Kaur include a.o. India Art Fair (IN), Apre Art House, (IN), A Tale of A Tub (NL), AAIE Center for Contemporary Art (IT), Nature Morte (IN), Tensta Konsthall (SE), Surrey Art Gallery (CA), Bikaner House (IN), Garage Rotterdam (NL), Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (IN), Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea (IT). Her work is in the collections at a.o. Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea (IT), Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh (IT), National Academy of Art in New Delhi (IT), State Academy of Art in Chandigarh (IN), Tellusart (SE) and a growing number of private collection in India, Sweden, Netherlands, USA and Austria.
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Born in 1989, Ludhiana, IN
Education
Jan van Eyck Academie | Post Academie for Art, Design and Reflection | Maastricht (NL) | 2020-2021
Government College of Art, Panjab University | MFA in Painting | University Gold Medal with Distinction | Chandigarh (IN) | 2010-2012
Government College of Art, Panjab University | BFA in Painting | Chandigarh (IN) | 2006-2010
Exhibitions
2024
Art Dubai | solo presentation | Gallery Latitude | Dubai, UAE
Cape Town Art Fair | solo presentation | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, NL
2023
Art Mumbai | Gallery Latitude 28 | Mumbai, IN
Green Snake: women-centred ecologies | Tai Kwun | curated by Kathryn Weirs | Hong Kong, CN
Becoming Earths | with Anouk Kruithof & Elisa Strinna | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, NL
India Art Fair | Gallery Latitude 28 | New Delhi, IN
Futur Proche | Apre Art House in collaboration with The Upside Space | Mumbai, IN
2022
Where Shall We Plant the Placenta? | curated by Julia Geerlings | A Tale of a Tub | Rotterdam, NL
Roads and Rivers-Meandering Stories of India | AAIE Center for Contemporary Art | Rome, IT
Who Will Speak: Me? You? Or Nobody? | Apparao Gallery | Chennai, IN
Non-Fungible Speculation | curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi | Nature Morte | New Delhi, IN
Hurting and Healing - Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage | curated by Charles Esche | Tensta Konsthall | Stockholm, SE
The World Awaits You Like A Garden | curatorial note by Sugata Ray | Gallery Latitude 28 | New Delhi, IN
The Pool of Memories | interactive installation | Surrey Art Gallery | British Columbia, CA
Kunstenfestival | Aardenburg, NL
2021
Garden State | curated by Fadwa Naamna | Garage Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL
Terrain Offline | Bikaner House | New Delhi, IN
SBK Sprouts Young Talents | SBK, Kunstuitleen & Galerie | Amsterdam, NL
Open Studios | Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht, NL
VAICA 2 | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum | Mumbai, IN
2019
Paradoxically Absurd | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
2018
Entropic | Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea | San Giovanni Valdarno, IT
Annual Art Exhibition | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
Open Studio | Khoj International Artists’ Association | New Delhi, IN
Emergent Geographies - Open Studios | Unidee-Cittadellarte | Fondazione Pistoletto | Biella, IT
2017
Annual Art Exhibition | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
Open Secret | Interactive Performance (16 hrs) | Punjab Arts Initiative | Mohali, IN
Annual Art Exhibition | Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi | Chandigarh, IN
2016
Cairotronica | International Symposium of Electronic and New Media Arts | Cairo, EGY
2013
Locating the Mind | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
2012
Annual Art Exhibition | Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi | Chandigarh, IN
Awards / Scholarships / Fellowships
2023 Sustaina India Fellowship | Foundation Thukral and Tagra, and The Council on Energy, Environment and Water
2023 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge (US) | Visiting Fellowship
2022 Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (IN) | Generator Art Production Fund
2018-2019 Annual Award | Punjab Lalit Akademi, Chandigarh (IN)
2018 Stand-alone overseas artist residency at Unidee, Citadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto (IT) | Inlaks scholarship
2017 Chandigarh Lalit Akademi, Chandigarh (IN) | Sohan Qadri Fellowship
2017 HT Youth Forum conducted by Hindustan Times (IN) | 30 under 30 Award
2012-2017 Chandigarh Lalit Akademi, Chandigarh (IN) | Annual Award
2012 Panjab University, Chandigarh (IN) | University Gold Medal in MFA
2011 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh (IN) | F. N. Souza Scholarship
Artist Residencies
2020 Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2020 Blurring Boundaries | Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation & Avid Learning (IN)
2019 1 Shanthiroad studio/gallery | Bangalore (IN)
2018 Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea | San Giovanni Valdarno (IT) | across-institutional programme with Clark House Initiative | Mumbai (IN)
2018 Unidee-Cittadellarte | Fondazione Pistoletto | Biella (IT)
2018 Peers 2018 — Khoj | New Delhi (IN)
2016 Gram Art Project | funded by FICA | vill.Paradsingha | Madhya Pradesh (IN)
Lectures / Art Talks / Workshop
2023 South Asian Art Through Nature Narratives, Spring Visiting Artist Fellowship | Lecture presentation at exhibition Launch | The Lakshmi Mittal and family South Asia Institute, Harvard University | Cambridge (US)
2022 The Tree That Grew Out of My Womb | Hybrid lecture performance with Asha Karami, Marie Caye, and Ruby Hoette | In collaboration with Jan van Eyck Academie, Rijksakademie, the Saastamoinen Foundation, and the Academy of Fine Arts Finland
2022 Artist Talk | School of Creative Arts | Fraser Valley University | Abbotsford (CA)
2021 Conundrum of Desire | video performance | Urgency Intensive: Intergovernmental Panel on Art and Climate Change | curated by Bruno Alves de Almeida & Inga Lace | Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2021 Artist Talk | Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2018 Artist Talk | Thompson River University | Kamloops (CA)
Collections
FRAC Collections (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) | FR
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art | IN
Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea | IT
Government Museum and Art Gallery | IN
Personal Collection of Art Historian Prof. B. N. Goswamy | IN
Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi (National Academy of Art) | IN
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art) | IN
Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art) | IN
Tellusart | SE
Various private collections
Education
Jan van Eyck Academie | Post Academie for Art, Design and Reflection | Maastricht (NL) | 2020-2021
Government College of Art, Panjab University | MFA in Painting | University Gold Medal with Distinction | Chandigarh (IN) | 2010-2012
Government College of Art, Panjab University | BFA in Painting | Chandigarh (IN) | 2006-2010
Exhibitions
2024
Art Dubai | solo presentation | Gallery Latitude | Dubai, UAE
Cape Town Art Fair | solo presentation | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, NL
2023
Art Mumbai | Gallery Latitude 28 | Mumbai, IN
Green Snake: women-centred ecologies | Tai Kwun | curated by Kathryn Weirs | Hong Kong, CN
Becoming Earths | with Anouk Kruithof & Elisa Strinna | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, NL
India Art Fair | Gallery Latitude 28 | New Delhi, IN
Futur Proche | Apre Art House in collaboration with The Upside Space | Mumbai, IN
2022
Where Shall We Plant the Placenta? | curated by Julia Geerlings | A Tale of a Tub | Rotterdam, NL
Roads and Rivers-Meandering Stories of India | AAIE Center for Contemporary Art | Rome, IT
Who Will Speak: Me? You? Or Nobody? | Apparao Gallery | Chennai, IN
Non-Fungible Speculation | curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi | Nature Morte | New Delhi, IN
Hurting and Healing - Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage | curated by Charles Esche | Tensta Konsthall | Stockholm, SE
The World Awaits You Like A Garden | curatorial note by Sugata Ray | Gallery Latitude 28 | New Delhi, IN
The Pool of Memories | interactive installation | Surrey Art Gallery | British Columbia, CA
Kunstenfestival | Aardenburg, NL
2021
Garden State | curated by Fadwa Naamna | Garage Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL
Terrain Offline | Bikaner House | New Delhi, IN
SBK Sprouts Young Talents | SBK, Kunstuitleen & Galerie | Amsterdam, NL
Open Studios | Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht, NL
VAICA 2 | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum | Mumbai, IN
2019
Paradoxically Absurd | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
2018
Entropic | Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea | San Giovanni Valdarno, IT
Annual Art Exhibition | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
Open Studio | Khoj International Artists’ Association | New Delhi, IN
Emergent Geographies - Open Studios | Unidee-Cittadellarte | Fondazione Pistoletto | Biella, IT
2017
Annual Art Exhibition | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
Open Secret | Interactive Performance (16 hrs) | Punjab Arts Initiative | Mohali, IN
Annual Art Exhibition | Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi | Chandigarh, IN
2016
Cairotronica | International Symposium of Electronic and New Media Arts | Cairo, EGY
2013
Locating the Mind | Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery | Chandigarh, IN
2012
Annual Art Exhibition | Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi | Chandigarh, IN
Awards / Scholarships / Fellowships
2023 Sustaina India Fellowship | Foundation Thukral and Tagra, and The Council on Energy, Environment and Water
2023 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge (US) | Visiting Fellowship
2022 Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (IN) | Generator Art Production Fund
2018-2019 Annual Award | Punjab Lalit Akademi, Chandigarh (IN)
2018 Stand-alone overseas artist residency at Unidee, Citadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto (IT) | Inlaks scholarship
2017 Chandigarh Lalit Akademi, Chandigarh (IN) | Sohan Qadri Fellowship
2017 HT Youth Forum conducted by Hindustan Times (IN) | 30 under 30 Award
2012-2017 Chandigarh Lalit Akademi, Chandigarh (IN) | Annual Award
2012 Panjab University, Chandigarh (IN) | University Gold Medal in MFA
2011 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh (IN) | F. N. Souza Scholarship
Artist Residencies
2020 Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2020 Blurring Boundaries | Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation & Avid Learning (IN)
2019 1 Shanthiroad studio/gallery | Bangalore (IN)
2018 Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea | San Giovanni Valdarno (IT) | across-institutional programme with Clark House Initiative | Mumbai (IN)
2018 Unidee-Cittadellarte | Fondazione Pistoletto | Biella (IT)
2018 Peers 2018 — Khoj | New Delhi (IN)
2016 Gram Art Project | funded by FICA | vill.Paradsingha | Madhya Pradesh (IN)
Lectures / Art Talks / Workshop
2023 South Asian Art Through Nature Narratives, Spring Visiting Artist Fellowship | Lecture presentation at exhibition Launch | The Lakshmi Mittal and family South Asia Institute, Harvard University | Cambridge (US)
2022 The Tree That Grew Out of My Womb | Hybrid lecture performance with Asha Karami, Marie Caye, and Ruby Hoette | In collaboration with Jan van Eyck Academie, Rijksakademie, the Saastamoinen Foundation, and the Academy of Fine Arts Finland
2022 Artist Talk | School of Creative Arts | Fraser Valley University | Abbotsford (CA)
2021 Conundrum of Desire | video performance | Urgency Intensive: Intergovernmental Panel on Art and Climate Change | curated by Bruno Alves de Almeida & Inga Lace | Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2021 Artist Talk | Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2018 Artist Talk | Thompson River University | Kamloops (CA)
Collections
FRAC Collections (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) | FR
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art | IN
Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea | IT
Government Museum and Art Gallery | IN
Personal Collection of Art Historian Prof. B. N. Goswamy | IN
Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi (National Academy of Art) | IN
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art) | IN
Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art) | IN
Tellusart | SE
Various private collections
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