Siri Kaur is an artist/photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, where she also serves as Associate Professor at Otis College of Art and Design. She received an MFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts in 2007, an MA in Italian Studies in 2001 from Smith College/Universita’ di Firenze, Florence, Italy, and BA in Comparative Literature from Smith College in 1998. Kaur was the recipient of the Portland Museum of Art Biennial Purchase Prize in 2011. She regularly exhibits and has had solo shows at Blythe Projects and USC’s 3001 galleries in Los Angeles, and group shows at the Torrance Museum of Art, California Institute of Technology, and UCLA’s Wight Biennial. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum , art ltd. , The L.A. Times , and The Washington Post , and is housed in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the University of Maine.
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 (catalog), 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 (with Kate Johnson), Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 2013.I too was in Arcadia , Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, 2008Cruiserweight , D300 Gallery, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA, 2007.The Collectors , L-Shape Gallery, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA, 2006.2014
INFOCUS: Self-Published Photobooks , Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZOf the Afternoon , Darnley Gallery, London, UKSummer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
99¢ Plus! , 99¢ Plus, New York, NY24/7 (still life), Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CAA Forest: Cathy Ackers, Annie Buckley, Anita Bunn, Siri Kaur, 2A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From Her, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Influenced by the Sun , Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CAStaking Claim: The California Triennial of Photography , Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CAFalling From Great Heights : Siri Kaur, John Knuth, Heather Rasmussen, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CAOut of Thin Air , LAX, Los Angeles, CA2012
Siri Kaur, Soo Kim, and Christina Ondrus, Woodbury University Gallery, Hollywood, CA
2011
Pissed Elegance , Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CACosmic Prom , Vortex Immersion Dome, Los Angeles, CAChain Letter , Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CAToo True , POST, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)Nuove Opere , U-Skill Gallery, Rome, ItalyThe Series , The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CAFuck Pretty , Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CARedefining Hollywood , The Factory at Fabrik Magazine, Los Angeles, CAPlay Time , See Line Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CASing Me to Sleep , Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CACurious Silence , Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA (catalog)2011 Biennial , Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)2010
(Por)trait Revealed , RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CASee-Thru , Gallery 825 and The Icon, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)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 (catalog)
Exalted One, curated by Sam Lee, Gallery 825, 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
2008
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
2007
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
2006
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
2006
NOW, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2005
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
2004
Virtual*Visual, Women in Photography International, New York, NY/ Los Angeles, CA
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.
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
Bakery Photographic Collective, Westbrook, ME, 2009
