Sunroop Kaur
Visual Artist

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Sunroop Kaur (b. 1997, Calgary, AB) holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019). Kaur is an interdisciplinary artist currently working in between Vancouver and Northern California. Her practice employs Eastern + Western iconography to decontextualize cultural materials and create spaces that reclaim/subvert South Asian narratives. Kaur is also interested in creating relics for the future, the work is heavily anchored by her interest in the materiality of time. Using cultural hybridity as a lens, Kaur is able to translate the struggles of a lived experience while allowing for the synthesis of critical spaces and generative dialogue within the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora. The use of mediums such as textile/embroidery allows her work to serve as a distillation of familial and community history, through which she counteracts the legacies of colonial violence and theft. She hopes her work is a restorative force that can facilitate reconciliation and healing for her community.

Kaur has recently completed a public art project “Mohr” funded by the City of Vancouver (2023) for the Punjabi Market Collective. She participated in a residency at 836M gallery that evolved into a performance-based piece with “Ensemble for Nonlinear Time” for Frieze Los Angeles (2023). Kaur has also worked on a number of notable site-specific commissions including a mural project for The State of California’s “Your Actions Save Lives” campaign titled Basant (Spring); Stockton (2021), “Immaterial Triad; Lapis Lazuli” public art installation, Cedar Street Gallery; Berkeley (2021) “Platforms 2020: Public Works” public art campaign; work was installed at bus shelters around Vancouver (2020), and a collaborative mural project “Taike-Sye’yə™” for Vancouver Mural Festival, which centered around the tragic Komagata Maru Episode, Vancouver (2019).