works
Jagdeep Raina
Holding onto you, 2023
embroidery on muslin
21,5 x 15,5 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Footprints left a gold dusty shadow, 2024
mixed media on paper
59 x 76 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Melting into the light, 2024
mixed media on paper
59 x 76 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Come back to life, 2024
mixed media on paper
76 x 59 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Kashmiri birds, 2020
Embroidery on muslin
35,6 x 25,4 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Adorned in her Mango shaped choga, 2023
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
91,44 x 101,6 cm
Jagdeep Raina
The last bits of thread, 2023
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
101,6 x 91,44 cm
Jagdeep Raina, Towards the valley, exhibition view
(photo Aurélien Mole)
Jagdeep Raina
The edge, 2023
Embroidery on muslin
30,48 x 17,78 cm
(photo Aurélien Mole)
Jagdeep Raina
Beautiful weaver, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, Kashmiri Ambi on Cotton
50,8 x 20,3 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Boundless, 2023
Embroidery on muslin
33 x 18 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Inderjeet, stay with her, 2020
Embroidery on muslin
55,9 x 22,9 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Good Luck, 2023
mixed media on paper
101,6 x 66,04 cm
Jagdeep Raina
Madame Rivière, 2023
mix media on paper
127 x 127 cm
(photo Aurélien Mole)
Jagdeep Raina
Josephine, 2023
mix media on paper
127 x 127 cm
(photo Aurélien Mole)
I WILL DREAM OF PEACE, 2022
Cotton and silk thread, muslin, natural hand dyed cotton fabric
35.56 x 25.4 cm
SHE LONGS FOR KASHMIR, 2022
Cotton and silk thread, muslin, natural hand dyed cotton fabric
54 x 25 cm
KHALSA QUEERS, 2021
mixed media on paper, sewn fabric quilt
76.2cm x 106.68cm
TRACES OF SOFT EAST LONDON, 2021
mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
76.2 x 81.3 cm
biography
Jagdeep Raina was born in 1991 in Guelph (Ontario, Canada) and currently lives in New York City (NY, USA).
In 2020, he was awarded a Paul Mellon Fellowship at Yale University and entered a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The same year, he received the prestigious Sobey Art Award. Between 2021 et 2023, he was a Core Program Fellow with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Jagdeep Raina has exhibited at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2021); Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2021); Textile Museum, Toronto (2021); Soft Opening, London (2020); (Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis (2019); Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph (2019); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2019); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2018); Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2018); RISD Museum of Art, Providence (2017); Humber Galleries, Toronto (2017); Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown (2017); Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); and Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston (2016).
In 2023, he exhibited for the first time in Paris at the galerie anne barrault with “Towards the valley”. In April 2024, he was in residence at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, as part of the Nancy B. Negley Artists Residency Program. A solo show is currently dedicated to his work at the Art Gallery of Burlington (ON, Canada).
Pluridisciplinary artist, Jagdeep Raina works with textile, drawing, writing, ceramics, 35mm film and video animation. He utilizes the archive in order to explore historical memory. His multi-media practice seeks to identify the residue left behind by the human touch, and its restorative potential.
The plurality of history is one of the main subject of Jagdeep Raina's work. Originally from the Kashmir region, his family emigrated to Canada in the 1960s because of the political climate. By focusing on various textile techniques (Kashmiri embroidery, Punjabi embroidery, shawls, phulkari), Jagdeep Raina reconnects with and revives an ancestral heritage that is now disappearing.
Solo exhibitions
2024
2023
Towards the valley | Galerie anne barrault – Paris
Beautiful Zameen, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State
University, Bakersfield, USA
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
2022
Beautiful Zameen, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2021-22
Chase, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto; Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph; Peel Art Gallery and Museum, Brampton, Canada
Hardeep Pandhal and Jagdeep Raina, Jhaveri Contemporary,
Mumbai, India
Jagdeep Raina: Bonds, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, USA
Memories Gave Birth to Hope, Soft Opening, London, UK
2020
Memories Gave Birth to Hope, Soft Opening at Picadilly Circus
Station, London, UK
2019
I promise, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada Daytimers, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, USA
Chase, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada 2013 Jagdeep Raina, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibitions
2025
2024
2023
The World That belongs to Us, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West midlands, UK
Memory is the Seamstress, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Who lit the fire?, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA
Piecework, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Drawing on Our History, Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG), Ottawa, Canada
2022
Future of Work: Letters from the Land and Water, Curated by
Simranpreet Anand and Srimoyee Mitra, Workers Arts and Heritage
Centre, Hamilton, Canada
Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, USA
2021
Drawing Room Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
Greater Toronto Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
Dūje Pāse Toñ (From the Other Side): Arts Across the Border, From
the Two Punjabs, The Reach, Abbotsford, Canada
2020
As the snail takes the shape of its shell, The Plumb Artist Run
Centre, Toronto, Canada
myselves, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2019 Cinch, Antenna Works, New Orleans, USA
denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body, Grice
Bench, Los Angeles, USA
2018-20
Vision Exchange, Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (itinerary: Art Museum at the University of Toronto; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Mckenzie Art Gallery, Regina; The National Gullery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada)
2018
Futures, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
2017
Un/Settled, RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Into you: On the Edge, Humber Galleries, Toronto, Canada Fellows Group Show, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, USA
2016
11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Washashore, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, USA London Summer Intensive, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK Don’t call me when you are rich and famous. Call me when you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, USA
RISD MFA Painting 2016, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, USA Sotto, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, Canada
2015
Image Landscapes, Gelman Gallery, RISD, Providence, USA
Half Master, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, USA (Curated by Nera Lerner)
Goonj, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada
A Myriad Marginalia, RISD Museum, Providence, USA
2014
UFO Hunters, Sol Keffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, USA
Collections
Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, USA Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Grants and residencies
Residencies
2024 Residency Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France
2021-23 Core Program Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA
2022 MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire, USA
2021 Paul Melon Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2019 Beaconhouse National University: South Asian Canadian Histories Association Residency, Lahore, Pakistan
2019 Wormfarm Institute Fellowship, Reedsberg, USA
2017 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, USA Skowhegan/RISD Matching Fellowship
2016 The London Intensive Residency: Camden Arts Centre & Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2016 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Richard Florsheim Visual Arts Fellowship, Provincetown, USA
2012 Advanced Painting Intensive Program, Columbia University, Paris, France
Grants
2020 Sobey Art Award Recipient, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2020 Craft Project Grant: Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, CA
2019 Melissa Levin Emerging Artist Award, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, CA
2019 Jane Graham Memorial Award, Guelph Arts Council, Guelph, CA
2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Nominee, New York, USA
2016 International Residencies Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2014 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
press
exhibitions
Upcoming exhibitions
- The Three-Legged Cat
Istanbul Biennal
Curated by: Christine Tohmé
20 September - 23 November 2025