Manjot Kaur
Manjot Kaur was born in 1989 in Ludhiana, India.
She lives and works between Vancouver and Chandigarh.
Her drawings, paintings, and time-based media attempt to de-patriarchize women’s bodies and celebrate the soverignty of nature. Kaur cross-pollinates ancient mythologies and histories to reflect on the relationship between humans and more than humans. Her works delve deep into intimate worlds encompassing the anthropology of wonder and awe, proposing narratives that imagine a multi-species future, by responding to ecological grief and loneliness through acts of care and kinship.
Manjot Kaur’s work has been presented in many exhibitions internationally: The Drawing Room, London (2025); Radius CCA, Delft (2025); Rijswijk Museum, Netherlands (2024); Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (2024); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2023); Latitude 28, New Delhi (2022, 2023); A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2022); AAIE Center for Contemporary Art, Rome (2022); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2022); Garage Rotterdam (2021); Jan Van Eycke Academie, Maastricht (2021); Punjab State Academy of Art, Chandigarh (2018, 2019); Museo Casa Masaccio, Italy (2018); among others.
She has received prestigious grants and fellowships such as the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University (2023); the Sustaina India Fellowship at CEEW (2022). She has been an artist in residence at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2020-21); 1, Shanthiroad, Bangalore (2019); Unidee, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy (2018).
