Sarindar Dhaliwal

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Sarindar Dhaliwal
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Sarindar Dhaliwal

1953
Punjab, India
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Sarindar Dhaliwal (born 1953) is a multi-media artist, born in India, raised in England, and based in Toronto. [1]

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Biography

Dhaliwal was born in Punjab, and moved with her family to England at the age of four and grew up in Southall, London. [2] At the age of fifteen, she migrated again with her family to Canada. She settled down on a farm near Brampton, Ontario. Finding it challenging to adapt to small-town life, she worked to save up for a trip back to London, where she stayed for a year.

She received a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth University, Cornwall in England (1978), then moved back to Canada where she still lives. [3] She gained a MA from York University, Toronto in 2003. [1] Subsequently, she earned a Ph.D in Cultural Studies from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. [1]

Dhaliwal's Art

Dhaliwal's work is narrative-based, exploring issues of cultural identity, and includes installation, printmaking, collage, painting and video projection. Much of Dhaliwal's work deals with memory – specifically childhood memories. [4] Dhaliwal's art tells the story of her life as a global citizen by cleverly exploring the complex relationships between memory and place, language and colour, sport and ritual, family and society, and the histories of colonialism and migration focusing on racism, conflict, and identity. Consequently, Dhaliwal's art is simultaneously personal and universal, defying all attempts at categorization. [5] [6]

the green fairy story book (bookwork with table, 2010) [6] is influenced by Dhaliwal's love of colour which she developed in childhood from reading fairy stories in colourful books at the library. Southall:Childplay (chromira print, 2009) covers an entire wall with her own collection of coloured pencils, which she used to play with. In When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colors (mixed media on graph paper, 2010), Dhaliwal gives names to colours: crushed raspberry, Indian summer, burnt persimmon. Dhaliwal's love of colour is also evident in the glowing colours of 28 ambassador cars (chromira print, 2010) driving around an island of text. [5] [6]

It was Dhaliwal's own lived experience of racism that nurtured her love of colour. However, all colors are equal for her. In Corner Flags and Corner Shops (mixed media installation, 2013) depicting a racist incidence even on the soccer field, she paints in multicoloured butterflies on white paper, to point out that colours are natural and racism is not a part of nature. [5] [6]

Dhaliwal's videowork olive, almond and mustard (2010) depicts her childhood memory of growing up in Britain having her long black hair washed with white yoghurt and oiled and braided by her mother. This piece moves back and forth from India to Britain with nursery rhymes, Bollywood film music, English pop songs and BBC Radio news describing her immigrant childhood in Great Britain. [5] [6]

The cartographer's mistake: the Radcliffe Line (chromira print, 2012) depicts the partition of the Indian subcontinent in Marigold flowers. Marigolds are traditionally a symbol of welcome but here they set the country afire. In 1947, Cyril Radcliffe was charged with carving up the subcontinent into 2 countries on the basis of religion: India and Pakistan. Even today, people are still writing and talking about the nightmare of partition. [5] [6]

Exhibitions

Dhaliwal's work has been exhibited around Canada since the 1980s. [7] Dhaliwal has exhibited her work at many major Canadian public galleries, including The Edmonton Art Gallery and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Ontario. She is represented in the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. [8] An exhibition of her work, 'Record Keeping', toured Britain in 2004, showing at the John Hansard Gallery (Southampton), Oriel Mostyn Gallery (Wales)and at Canada House Gallery (London). Her work is in collections including Canada Council Art Bank and the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre for the Arts.

Dhaliwal's most recent solo shows were in 2013 at A Space Gallery, an artist-led space in Toronto [9] and at the Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey, BC; Gallerie Deste in Montreal (2010) and the Robert Langen Art Gallery in Waterloo (2012). In 2011 she participated in exhibitions in Stony Plain, Alberta, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Reach, Abbotsford both in British Columbia and at the Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi, India. Sarindar Dhaliwal was the 2012 recipient of the Canada Council International Residency at Artspace, Sydney, Australia. [10]

In November 2016, Dhaliwal's work was featured as part of the Koffler Art Gallery's exhibit Yonder. [11] This exhibition dealt with work surrounding the Canadian immigrant experience. [12]

In 2023, Dhaliwal had a solo retrospective, When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. [13]

List of solo exhibitions

List of selected group exhibitions

Awards

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