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{{Short description|Contemporary Indian artist (born 1989)}}
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| birth_place = Ludhiana
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| occupation = Visual artist
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| website = {{url|www.kaurmanjot.com}}
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'''Manjot Kaur''' (born 1989) is a contemporary Indian artist, who lives and works in [[Chandigarh]].<ref name="Heart of the Matter">{{Cite news|url=http://epaper.indianexpress.com/1140966/Chandigarh/March-19,-2017#page/25/3|title=Heart of the Matter|date=2017-03-19|work=epaper.indianexpress.com.com/|language=en}}</ref> She is currently artist in residence at [[Jan van Eyck Academie]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Participants 2020-2021 |url=https://www.janvaneyck.nl/participants/manjot-kaur/ |website=www.janvaneyck.nl |publisher=Jan Van Eyck Academie}}</ref> [[Maastricht, Netherlands]] for the year 2020–2021.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoskote |first1=Ranjit |title=In 'Blurring Boundaries' virtual studio, traditional art practices reimagined for the Covid-19 era |url=https://scroll.in/article/976290/in-blurring-boundaries-virtual-studio-traditional-art-practices-reimagined-for-the-covid-19-era |website=scroll.in |access-date=21 October 2020}}</ref>

== About ==
She completed her BFA and MFA (University Gold Medal)<ref name="30 under 30" /> in the field of Painting from [[Government College of Arts, Chandigarh]], in 2010 and 2012 respectively. Her mediums range from drawing to video, interactive performance, land art and installation.<ref>{{cite news|title=For art's sake|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/life-style/for-art-s-sake/480250.html|access-date=11 Oct 2017|agency=The Tribune}}</ref>

== Practice ==
Her practice builds between the socio-political realities<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brökelmann |first1=Nele |title=How to become we-beings A long-term vision for art, cultural workers and the climate crisis at the JVE |url=https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/42936_how_to_become_we_beings_a_long_term_vision_for_art_cultural_workers_and_the_climate_crisis_at_the_jve |website=www.metropolism.com |publisher=Metropolis M |access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref> and the sovereignty of nature. Her work is an interface between science, nature, perception, abstraction, and scale inciting a discourse on the social, cultural and personal issues, through the careful representation of objects and narratives rooted in temporal, ephemeral, and entropy.<ref name=":0" /> She is profoundly concerned with abstraction and how abstraction can be political in its edge.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoskote |first1=Ranjit |title=Art in the Covidocene Age |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMG_QqVI2A0&t=2779s |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=Avid Learning |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref>

== Biography ==
She is the recipient of scholarship by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, New Delhi for a stand-alone residency in [[Cittadellarte|Unidee, Cittadellarte]] Fondazione Pistolleto,<ref>[http://www.cittadellarte.it/ Fondazione Pistolleto]</ref> Italy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/life-style/what-makes-us-what-we-are/675734.html|title=What makes us what we are?|last=Singh|first=Nonika|date=30 October 2018|work=The Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/supplement/story/20180924-footloose-for-art-1339979-2018-09-14|title=Footloose for art|date=14 September 2018|first=Sukant Deepak|last=Punjab|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> She has received professional Category Annual Award, [[Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi]] (State Academy of Art), Chandigarh, India, 2018;<ref>{{cite news|title=Lalit Kala Akademi announces eight winners for its annual art exhibition|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/lalit-kala-akademi-announces-eight-winners-for-its-annual-art-exhibition/articleshow/63214312.cms|access-date=8 March 2018|agency=Times of India|publisher=Times of India}}</ref> Sohan Qadri Fellowship, [[Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi ]](State Academy of Art), Chandigarh, India 2017;<ref>{{cite news|title=Manjot Kaur wins Sohan Qadri fellowship|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/manjot-kaur-wins-sohan-qadri-fellowship/story-92PCaFdI1Zg6dZnEC1HbVN.html|access-date=9 Oct 2017|agency=Hindustan Times|publisher=Hindustan Times}}</ref> Professional and Student Category Annual Award, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art), Chandigarh, India, 2017<ref>{{cite news|title=Painting Dreams : Laurels for professional and budding tricity artists|url=https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-chandigarh-city/20170214/281887298061201|access-date=14 Feb 2017|agency=Hindustan Times}}</ref> and 2012,<ref>{{cite news|title=Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi rewards artistic talent at Annual Art Exhibition 2012|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/chandigarh/Chandigarh-Lalit-Kala-Akademi-rewards-artistic-talent-at-Annual-Art-Exhibition-2012/articleshow/17965169.cms|access-date=24 Mar 2014|agency=Times of India}}</ref> respectively and Scholarship to Young Artists, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art), Chandigarh, India in 2011.<ref name="Heart of the Matter"/> She was chosen by Hindustan Times as one of the Top 30 under 30 young achievers in 2017.<ref name="30 under 30">{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/ht-youth-forum-2017-manjot-kaur-among-top-30-under-30/story-wvBQXQTvfpluGa9rBloWyM.html|title=HT Youth Forum 2017: Manjot Kaur among Top 30 Under 30|date=2017-05-23|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=2018-04-16|language=en}}</ref>

She has been an artist in residence at [[Cittadellarte|Unidee, Citadellarte]] – Fondazione Pistolleto,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=106&hl=it|title=UNIDEE - Università delle Idee {{!}} UNIDEE Residencies - Fall 2018|website=cittadellarte.it|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> Italy for the year 2018 on full scholarship by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, New Delhi;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.inlaksfoundation.org/art/overseas/unidee/|title=UNIDEE – Inlaks|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno (Italy)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.casamasaccio.it/manjot-kaur/|title=Manjot Kaur / ɛnˈtrɒpɪk / 8 dicembre 2018 - 7 gennaio 2019|last=Masaccio|first=Casa|date=2018-12-03|website=CASA MASACCIO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> – a cross-institutional program with Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India; Khoj International Artists’ Association – Peers18, New Delhi;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inlaksshivdasanifoundationblog.org/home/2018/7/18/khoj-peers-2018|title=Khoj Peers 2018|website=Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> Mythos – Land Art Biel/Bienne, Switzerland 2017;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://landartkosta.blogspot.com/2017/09/lartbb-17-mythos-manjot-kaur.html|title=KARDO KOSTA: LARTBB 17 -MYTHOS- MANJOT KAUR|last=Kosta|first=Kardo|date=2017-09-12|website=KARDO KOSTA|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> Gram Art Project - funded by FICA, India 2016; Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, India 2015; Global Nomadic Art Project, India 2015.

Her works are in the collection of Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea,<ref>[http://www.casamasaccio.it/en/ Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea]</ref> San Giovanni Valdarno (Italy), Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India, Personal collection Prof. [[B. N. Goswamy]], India and Tellusart, Sweden.

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[[Category:Artists from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Punjabi people]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:Artists from Chandigarh]]
[[Category:Indian installation artists]]
[[Category:Indian video artists]]
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