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.
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. This Kind of Face, 99¢ Plus, New York, NY Rob and Heather and Chris and Otto and Koral…, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT 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, 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.