Rajkamal Kahlon

born 1974 in Auburn, CA, currently lives and works in Berlin
Villa Romana Fellow 2019

Biography

2001
Whitney Independent Study Program

1999
MFA, California College of Arts

1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1996
BA, University of California, Davis


Grants, awards and residencies

2017
Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation, Artist Grant

2016
Weltmuseum Wien, AIR

2016
Melon Visiting Artist, Newhouse Center for Humanities, Wellesley College

2012
ACLU, National Security Project, AIR

2012
Pollock Krasner Foundation Award

2012
Artist Grant, Kunstfonds Foundation

2012
Artist Grant Goethe Institute

2007
Lambent Artist Fellowship

2006
Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award

People of the Earth, 2017
70 piece wall installation with modified and detached book pages and book cover of a 1902 German anthropology book: Die Völker der Erde

Do You Know Our Names?, Untitled Portrait (gold dots), 2017, 100x75 cm, gouache and acrylic ink on archival digital print

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Staying With Trouble, Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna

2016
Blowback, OKK, Organ Kritischer Kunst, Berlin

2013
Blowback, Gallery Nature Morte, Berlin

2012
Double Vision /Doppelbilder, Rudolph Scharpf Gallery, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, D

2009
Did You Kiss the Dead Body, Catalyst Project Room, Berlin

2005
Unbound, P.P.O.W., New York

2004
Imports /Exports, Ratio 3, San Francisco


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2017
Reframing Worlds: Mobility and Gender in a Postcolonial and Feminist Perspective,
nGbk, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Precarious Art, Artificial Boundaries, Alphanova /Galerie Futura, Berlin

2016
Fevered Specters of Art, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, D
Undisciplinary Learning: The Aesthetics of Resistance, District, Berlin
Your Country Doesn´t Exist, Gallery Otok, Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, HR
Your Country Doesn´t Exist, Multimedia Center, Split, HR
Your Country Doesn´t Exist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR
In the Power of Your Care, 8th Floor Gallery, Donald and Shelley Rubenstein Foundation, New York

2015
So You Want to See, e-flux, New York
Let the Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

2014
The Theory of Color, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7, V-A-C Foundation, Moskau
Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7, 21er Haus, Vienna
Golden Estates, Meeting Points 7, Parasite, Hong Kong, CN
Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7, CIC, Cairo
Fragile Hands, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

2013
Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7, MHKA, Antwerp, BG
Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, HR
When Violence Becomes Decadent, ACC Galerie, Weimar, D

2012
Taipei Biennial: Modern Monsters/Death and Life of Fiction, Taipei Fine Art Museum
Taiwan Labor Berlin 12: Drifting, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
The Subjective Object, Grassi Museum Für Volkerkunde, Leipzig, D

2011
India is Now, Kunstverein Göttingen, D
Making Mirrors, nGbk, Berlin
Aesthetic Justice, Lambent Foundation, New York