15 Facts About Sarindar Dhaliwal

Sarindar Dhaliwal was born on 1953 and is a multi-media artist, born in India, raised in England, and based in Toronto.

Sarindar Dhaliwal settled down on a farm near Brampton, Ontario.

Sarindar Dhaliwal received a BFA with a concentration in sculpture at Falmouth University, Cornwall in England, then moved back to Canada where she still lives.

Sarindar Dhaliwal gained a MFA from York University, Toronto in 2003.

Sarindar Dhaliwal's work is narrative-based, exploring issues of cultural identity, and includes installation, printmaking, collage, painting and video projection.

Sarindar Dhaliwal's art tells the story of her life as a global citizen by cleverly exploring the complex relationships between memory and place, language and colour, sport and ritual, family and society, and the histories of colonialism and migration focusing on racism, conflict, and identity.

Consequently, Sarindar Dhaliwal's art is simultaneously personal and universal, defying all attempts at categorization.

In When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colors, Sarindar Dhaliwal gives names to colours: crushed raspberry, Indian summer, burnt persimmon.

Sarindar Dhaliwal's work has been exhibited around Canada since the 1980s.

Sarindar Dhaliwal has exhibited her work at many major Canadian public galleries, including The Edmonton Art Gallery and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Ontario.

Sarindar Dhaliwal is represented in the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art.

Sarindar Dhaliwal's work is in collections including Canada Council Art Bank and the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre for the Arts.

Sarindar Dhaliwal was the 2012 recipient of the Canada Council International Residency at Artspace, Sydney, Australia.

In November 2016, Sarindar Dhaliwal's work was featured as part of the Koffler Art Gallery's exhibit Yonder.

In 2023, Sarindar Dhaliwal had a solo retrospective, When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours, at the Art Gallery of Ontario.