Siri Kaur is an artist and photographer who examines identities that occupy dualities, diversity, and contradiction, with a rigorous eye for the photographic quality of magic. Originally from Maine, Kaur is currently based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and an MA and a BA from Smith College. Shows have included the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Aperture Foundation, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Camera Club of New York. Her pictures and exhibitions have been featured in Artforum, Art ltd., Art Practical, Artillery, Double Blind Magazine, Flaunt, Granta, The Los Angeles Times, Musee Magazine, The New Yorker, Purple, Wallpaper, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She was an associate professor of fine arts at Otis College of Art and Design from 2007-2018 and currently teaches at UCLA.
