A selection of recent works by Kiranjot Kaur
Figure 1: Current solo public art project for the City of Nanaimo, titled Histogram Histories, installed in June 2025. Histogram Histories is a dynamic hanging installation representing graphs tracing the change in seven metrics across the City of Nanaimo through time, installed in the atrium of the Oliver Woods Community Centre. Lightweight fabric cylinders representing the metrics hang in a series of sculptural ‘graphs’, affording visitors multiple viewpoints and changing perspectives, wherein they experience the selected statistical data in visually-arresting artistic form. More information available at https://kiranjotart.com/histogram-histories/
Figure 2: Recent solo exhibition at the Chilliwack Museum & Archives. Painting titled The Hands that Braid. Acrylic on canvas, 54”x48”, 2025.
More information available at https://kiranjotart.com/the-hands-that-braid/
Figure 3: Recent solo exhibition at the Chilliwack Museum & Archives. Sculpture titled Through Fingers. Plaster, wood panel, wires, parandia, silk, trims, 16”x12”x12”, 2025.
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Figure 4: Recent solo exhibition at the Chilliwack Museum & Archives. Hanging Installation titled Pritam’s Braids. Silk scraps, trims, gota, parandia, 2025.
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Figure 5: Mural completed as a mentee team artist under the direction of mentor, Chantelle Trainor-Matties, as part of the City of Abbotsford and the Reach’s CITI/SEEN project in September 2024. Located in downtown Abbotsford. The design was developed as a collaborative effort, with direction and final design decisions made by the mentoring artist. More information available at: https://youtu.be/GWbjsEu56N0?si=r9H6LvioSEYMXXo0
Figure 6: Things, Utility Box Wrap Design for the City of Surrey, Hand drawn using ink on paper and coloured digitally, 2023
Figure 7: Playground Sign Digital Illustration design from 2024, Surrey Centre Elementary
Figure 8: “Heera” original handmade artwork with marker on paper, re-envisioned here as a mural concept. Speaking to the potential diamonds we allow to slip through our fingers as time goes on. Inspired by a shabad from Sikh scripture.
Figure 9: (From a previous submission to the City of Surrey, 2025) With a goal to represent this vibrant community, I propose to paint murals that celebrate playfulness and joy in common activities and sites, and evoke a sense of ownership and familiarity with the artwork. The illustrative style appears as “stickers” inspired by the loving practice of applying stickers to commonly used objects such as water bottles, laptops, backpacks and more. My proposed design intends to spark a little bit of cheer while visitors pass by or sit to rest throughout their busy days. I want viewers of the paintings to feel the street itself belongs to them. Subject matter for the images includes diverse representation of residents, recognizable places, local animals and plants, and depictions of local business offerings (e.g. cuisine, services, etc.) but I remain open to feedback and suggestions for specific image inclusion.
Figure 11: (From a previous submission to the City of Surrey, 2024) A nature-themed mural concept for an outdoor washroom facility and multi-purpose room featuring local flora.
Figure 12: (From a previous submission to the City of Surrey) Commemorative pin design concept.
Figure 13: (From a previous submission to the City of Surrey, 2025) “Through Generations.” Preliminary concept for an outdoor metal washroom gate design. This design aims to honour the natural and urban environment, and contribute to cultural vibrancy in the community. It tells the story of how nature inspires people to connect through community with care and playfulness and features a phulkari pattern technique that uses “stitches” to represent natural forms, both as a use of a traditional Panjabi art form in a contemporary practice and also as a representation of how small individual parts come together as part of a whole. The “stitches” would be suitable for the laser cut panels. The proposed design is an image of a local tree that grows up into the sky and down into a connective root system, surrounded by birds, representing the continuous story of people and nature using care through the generations to nurture life.
Figure 14: (From a previous submission to the City of Surrey, 2025) “Even in the Wind.” Preliminary concept design for a laser cut panel at an outdoor washroom facility. I proposed a depiction of trees dancing together in the wind, while exhibiting a phenomenon where their branches do not cross or interfere with one another, inspiring us to care for one another, through playful and thoughtful interactions.
Figure 15: Mural Design concept. Digital painting. 2025.
Figure 16: Sample illustration from Sangeet and the Missing Beat. Marker and ink on paper. 2022.
Figure 17: Poster design. Digital. 2025.
Figure 18: Ful 1, from the series Sovereign Elevations, acrylic on wood panel, 12”x16”, 2020. Sovereign Elevations was featured as part of the Des Pardes group show at the Reach Gallery, the un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing group show at the Surrey Art Gallery, a group show at Mackin House, a solo show at Place des Arts and a solo show at the Silk Purse Art Gallery.
Figure 19: The Departed, acrylic on plywood, 16”x20,” 2018
Figure 20: Rani Haar en Toille, 16”x20”, ink and polymer clay on paper. 2025.
Figure 21: Surajmukhi, 12″x16″ Acrylic on wood panel, from the series, “Darshan.” Darshan, the name of my maternal grandmother, from Panjabi, translating as “a vision of Divinity”. The artworks, which are a series of portraits of women began as an anonymous identity and have continued as a celebration of maternal lineage and melanin-rich women.
Figure 21: 24″x36″ Acrylic on canvas, 2025.
Kiranjot Kaur 