Which Side Are You On?

Rajkamal Kahlon (b. 1974, Auburn, CA) is an American artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Kahlon received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis, CA, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. She is an alumna of Skowhegan and the Whitney ISP and is a professor of painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany. Kahlon has held solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Gallery Wedding, Berlin, Germany; P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany; and Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany; among others. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Stadtmuseum Dresden, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Artists Space, New York, NY; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia; among others. She has been awarded the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize, Villa Romana Prize, Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award, Pollock Krasner Award, and has completed residencies and fellowships at American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Security Project, New York, NY; Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; and Newhouse Center for Humanities, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; among others.