Meet Russna Kaur at this month’s ArtTalk. Confederation Centre Art Gallery is supporting an artist-in-residence for the month of June with Annandale Artist Residency.

Born in Brampton, ON, Russna Kaur is a painter living and working in Vancouver, BC. She is the recipient of the Takao Tanabe Painting Prize and the IDEA Art Award. She has exhibited works nationally at institutions including the Kamloops Art Gallery; Remai Modern in Saskatoon, SK; Vancouver Art Gallery; Audain Art Museum in Whistler, BC; College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, and internationally at Galerie Isa in Mumbai, India, and Gajah Gallery in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She has an upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of Burlington, ON.

She was commissioned to create public artwork for the Translink Art Columns in the City of Richmond, BC; Boren Banner Series at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives in Brampton, ON. Upcoming public art commissions include the Square Nine Developments in Burnaby, BC.

Kaur completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Waterloo and a Master of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Burrard Arts Foundation in Vancouver, the Centrum Emerging Artist Residency in Port Townsend, WA, an Independent Artist Residency in Los Angeles, CA, and the Wassaic Project in New York.

Kaur’s work is held in numerous private, corporate and institutional collections including the TD Bank Collection, RBC Art Collection, Audain Art Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Surrey Art Gallery, and the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.

Russna will deliver an ArtTalk at Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Thursday, June 19 at 7 p.m. where she will give a presentation about her work and be available for questions and conservations. This event is free and open to the public.

Photo credit: Wassaic Project