Rajkamal Kahlon

Rajkamal Kahlon recuperates drawing and painting as sights of aesthetic and political resistance. The lingering specter of colonialism and the aesthetics of ethnography are continually brought into focus through her use of interruption and collage.

Kahlon’s work has been exhibited internationally including the Taipei Biennale (Taiwan), Beirut Art Center, CICI (Egypt), Labin Industrial Biennial (Croatia), MUHKA (Belgium), MOMA (Poland), MuAC (Mexico) Weltmuseum Wien (Austria), e-flux Gallery (NY), P.P.O.W. (NY), Ratio 3 (CA), Apex Art (NY), and Artist Space (NY), among others.

Kahlon has received numerous grants, including a Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation Artist Grant, a Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, a Kunstfonds Foundation Artist Grant, a Goethe Institute Artist Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award, among others.

Kahlon has been an artist-in-residence at Weltmuseum Wien (Austria), the ACLU National Security Project, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI), among others.

Kahlon attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School and Painting and Sculpture. She received her BA from University of California, Davis, and her MFA from California College of Art.