Rajkamal Kahlon will be artist in residence at Weltmuseum Wien in January and February 2016. Her project proposal was selected out of 78 excellent applications by an expert jury.
Rajkamal Kahlon is an American artist and educator based in Berlin, Germany. Kahlon's drawings, paintings and performative installations use overlapping strategies of critical aesthetics and absurdist humor to interrupt the pedagogical function of texts and images found within historical and contemporary colonial archives.
Kahlon received her MFA from the California College of Art and is a past participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her projects have been exhibited in biennials, museums and foundations in North America, Europe and Asia, including the 2012 Taipei Biennial, Meeting Points 7, Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, (MHKA), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City (MUAC), Museum of Modern Art,Warsaw, Wilhelm Hack Museum, NGBK, Queens Museum of Art, Artists' Space, White Box and Apex Art. Kahlon is the recipient of a Stiftung Kunstfonds Artist Grant, a Goethe Institute Grant, a Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, and a Lambent Project Grant. Kahlon is the past recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award and a Lambent Artist Fellowship.
http://www.rajkamalkahlon.com/
Dates for a public presentation tba.
WHEN:January + February 2016
Organized by: Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna (AT)
artist talk: February 11, 2016
LOCATION ARTIST TALK: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
