Siri Kaur
Siri Kaur is an artist and photographer who examines identities that occupy dualities, diversity, and contradiction, with a rigorous eye for the photographic quality of magic. She received her MFA from The California Institute of the Arts, and an MA and a BA from Smith College. Kaur’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Blythe Projects, Cohen Gallery, and Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; at 99¢ Plus, New York; at the Vermont Center for Photography, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Group shows include those at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Aperture Foundation, the Portland Museum of Art, the Camera Club of New York, the Torrance Museum of Art, and the Museum of Photographic Arts, among others. Kaur’s work has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She was a Professor of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design from 2007-2018. In 2014 Leroy Press published Kaur’s first monograph, This Kind of Face, that documented the world of celebrity impersonators. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Solo exhibitions
- SHE TELLS ALL, Eric Buterbaugh Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
- Upper Layers, El Clasificado, Los Angeles, CA and Venice, Italy, 2019
- Crow’s Field, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, 2018
- Urban Lights: 10th Anniversary Portraits, Art Catalogs LACMA, Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
- Crow’s Field, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,2017.
- This Kind of Face, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015.
- They Live in Caves, Blythe Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2013.
- Know Me for the First Time, Blythe Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2013.
- Field Trip, 3001 Gallery, Roski School of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2013.
- More Than or Equal to Half of the Whole, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 2013.
- I too was in Arcadia, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
- Cruiserweight, D300 Gallery, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA, 2007.
- The Collectors, L-Shape Gallery, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA, 2006.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
- Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
- A Secret, River Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Berlin, Germany
- Every Woman Biennial, Bendix Building, Los Angele
- Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
- Keeping up with the Gagosians, El Clasificado, Los Angeles, CA
- Super Radiance, The Nook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack Modern, Durham, NC
- Covers, The Bloke, Pasadena, CA, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- A Forest: Cathy Ackers, Annie Buckley, Anita Bunn, Siri Kaur, 2A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- From Her, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Los Angeles, CA
- Influenced by the Sun, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Staking Claim: The California Triennial of Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
- Falling From Great Heights: Siri Kaur, John Knuth, Heather Rasmussen, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Out of Thin Air, LAX, Los Angeles, CA
- Siri Kaur, Soo Kim, and Christina Ondrus, Woodbury University Gallery, Hollywood, CA
- Pissed Elegance, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Cosmic Prom, Vortex Immersion Dome, Los Angeles, CA
- Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Too True, POST, Los Angeles, CA
- Nuove Opere, U-Skill Gallery, Rome, Italy
- The Series, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
- Fuck Pretty, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Redefining Hollywood, The Factory at Fabrik Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
- Play Time, See Line Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Sing Me to Sleep, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Curious Silence, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA
- 2011 Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
- trait Revealed, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
- See-Thru, Gallery 825 and The Icon, Los Angeles, CA
- Altimetry, curated by Mark Steven Greenfield, Terminal 1, LAX and Los Angeles
- Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Contemporary Art RUHR Projects, Ruhr, Germany
- Outside the Project, curated by Jess Minckley, RAID Projects and Light & Wire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
- A Million Little Pictures, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA & New York, NY
- Curious Silence, curated by Renee Martin & Heather Rasmussen, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Perspective, curated by Paula Tognarelli, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
- More with Less, curated by Kristina Newhouse & Robert Brander Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
- Truth or Dare, curated by Craig Krull, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
- In the Bedroom, curated by Marty Weiss, Meter Gallery, New York, NY
- Members Only, curated by Keith Carter, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
- Everyone’s a Curator, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Conventions and Attitudes, curated by Karen Atkinson, Trade & Row, Los Angeles, CA
- Projection, curated by Maria Jenson, Salon Oblique, Santa Monica, CA
- All In, curated by Lorraine Molina, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
- My Buddy, UCLA Wight Biennial, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- You are Beautiful, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- For Ever, curated by Eungie Joo, 915 Mateo, Los Angeles, CA
- Making Meaning, curated by Howard Fox, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
- Mid-Residency Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
- Open Show, curated by Ann Philbin, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
- I Would Be You, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon
- Photography Now, curated by Natasha Lunn, 401 Projects & Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, NY & Woodstock, NY
- NOW, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
- Nothing to See Here, curated by Walead Beshty, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA
- New Photography, Riverside Metropolitan Art Museum, Riverside, CA
- Beauty, Women in Photography International, New York, NY
- In Focus: Photography Techniques and Trends, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
- Photography Now, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
- The Image is the Message, DreamBox Photo Gallery, Chicago, IL
- National Women’s Show, Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, MD
- Virtual*Visual, Women in Photography International, New York, NY/ Los Angeles, CA
Collections
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
- National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
- University of Maine Art Museum, Orono, ME
- Washington Gallery of Photography, Washington, D.C.
Awards & Grants
- COLA Grant Artist Portraits, 12 portraits for COLA grants catalog, 2012
- Center for Cultural Innovation/ Durfee Grant, 2011
- Portland Museum of Art Biennial Purchase Prize, 2006
- California Institute of the Arts Merit Scholarship, 2006
Residencies
- Bakery Photographic Collective, Westbrook, ME, 2009
Publications as Author
- “This Kind of Face,”.
- “Tanja Hollander: A Photographer’s Attempt to Photograph 687 Facebook Friends,” Feature Shoot, June 20, 2013.
- “Heather Rasmussen: Photographer Recreates Disasters and Accidents Involving Shipping Containers,” Feature Shoot, June 24, 2013.
- “Know Me for the First Time,”.
- “Siri Kaur,” in 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Mark Bessire, ed., : 64-65.
- “Do You Want to Make a Picture Book?,” Words Without Pictures, Alex Klein, ed. : 172-174.
- “Il Sogno del Paradiso Terrestre: Il Poema Pastorale e il Giardino nel Rinascimento Italiano,”.
Academic Appointments
- 2014-2018 Associate Professor, Fine Arts and Foundation Programs, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- 2010-2014 Assistant Professor, Fine Arts and Foundation Programs, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007-2010 Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art and Foundation Programs, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- 2005-2007 Teaching Assistant, Foundation Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA