Sarindar Dhaliwal

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Nationality Canadian Name Sarindar Dhaliwal		Education York University

Full Name Sarindar Dhaliwal Born 1953 Punjab, India Books Sarindar Dhaliwal: Record Keeping, Of Mudlarkers and Measurers

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Sarindar Dhaliwal (born 1953) is a Canadian multi-media artist, based in Toronto. She was born in the Punjab, and grew up in Southall, London. She received a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth University, Cornwall (1978), then moved to Canada where she still lives. She gained a MA from York University, Toronto in 2003.

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Career

Dhaliwal's work is narrative based, exploring issues of cultural identity, and includes installation, printmaking, collage, painting and video projection.Much of Dhaliwal's work deals with memory- specifically childhood memories.

Exhibitions

Dhaliwal has exhibited her work at many major Canadian public galleries, including The Edmonton Art Gallery (Alberta) and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Ontario. She is represented in the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art.An exhibition of her work, 'Record Keeping', toured the UK in 2004, showing at John Hansard Gallery (Southampton), Oriel Mostyn Gallery (Wales), Canada House Gallery (London), and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Ontario). Her work is in collections including Canada Council Art Bank and the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre for the Arts.

Dhaliwal's most recent solo shows were in 2013 at 'A Space Gallery', an artist-led space in Toronto; Galerie Deste in Montreal (2010) and the Robert Langen Art Gallery in Waterloo (2012). In 2011 she participated in exhibitions in Stony Plain, Alberta, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Reach, Abbotsford both in British Columbia and at the Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi, India. Sarindar Dhaliwal was the 2012 recipient of the Canada Council International Residency at Artspace, Sydney, Australia.

In November 2016, Dhaliwal's work was featured as part of the Koffler Art Gallery's exhibit Yonder. The show dealt with work surrounding the Canadian immigrant experience.

List of Solo Exhibitions

1983 - Images de St. Pierre et Michelon, Le Centre Français, Kingston, Ont.

1984 - Des fruits et des triangles, Le Chambre Blance, Quebec City, Que.

1985 - Recent Works, Kingston Public Library, Kingston, Ont.

1987 - St. Lawrence College Gallery, Kingston, Ont.

1989 - Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ont.

1989 - Art Noise, Kingston, Ont.

List of Selected Group Exhibitions

1985 - Artforms, Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery, Kitchener, Ont.

1985 - Rodnam Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ont.

1985 - A Change in the Weather, K.A.A.I. Gallery, Kingston, Ont. (2 person show)

Awards

1983 - Aprons (installation), MacDonald Park, Kingston, Ont.

1983 - Ministry of Culture Artist in the Community Award

1982, 1984 - Ontario Arts Council, Artist in the Schools Programme

1983-1986 - Ontario Arts Council, Materials Assistance Grant

1987 - Canada Council, Explorations Grant

Life

Sarindar Dhaliwal was born in 1953, in the Punjab region of India, and moved with her family to London, England at the age of three. At the age fifteen, she was moved again to an area near Carleton Place, Ontario. Finding it challenging to adapt to small town life, she worked to be able to buy a trip back to London, where she stayed for a year. When Dhaliwal returned to Kingston, Ontario, she took courses in weaving and batik, while sharing living space with art students from Queen's University.