Navjeet Kaur

Navjeet Kaur is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, writer, and emerging curator. Kaur’s practice explores the harmony and chaos which exists within the body, spirit, and the earth. Her body sculptures take form as the earthly elements embodied as ancestors whom she pieces together to create reimagined stories and places of belonging.

Kaur previously served as the Arts Program Coordinator at Women of Banglatown, a community-based nonprofit organization. She also worked closely with curators as an Artist in Residence for the Womxnhouse exhibition in Detroit. Her work has been featured in international exhibitions, including in Brampton and British Columbia, Canada (CA), as well as London, England (UK). Kaur’s work and writing has been featured in Riverwise Detroit, EcoArtSpace’s Earthkeepers Handbook, Weaving our Stories an Anthology, and Real Art Detroit.

Kaur completed her MA in Communication and Media Studies at Oakland University, and her BFA in Painting and BA in Communication Studies from Wayne State University. Her graduate studies focused on her art practice in connection with her grandparents' story of becoming refugees as an aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. While completing this research, Kaur began to teach in Detroit Public Schools, collaborating with Detroit artists, and partnering with local organizations where students were impacted by experiences similar to those of her family. As a first generation Sikh-Punjabi woman, she has learned to pave her own path in the arts and continues to do that for the artists she works with.