Navjeet Kaur

Navjeet Kaur (b. 1993, Detroit, MI). is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, writer, and emerging curator based in Detroit, MI. 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 currently serves as an Arts Program Coordinator with community based nonprofit organization, Women of Banglatown. Previously, she worked closely with curators for the Womxnhouse exhibition in Detroit as an Artist in Residence. Kaur’s work has also been selected for exhibitions internationally, in British Columbia, Canada and London, England. 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. Kaur’s work and writing has been featured in Riverwise Detroit, EcoArtSpace’s Earthkeepers Handbook, Weaving our Stories an Anthology, and Real Art Detroit. She currently works as a full-time educator and leads workshops with organizations that advocate for BIPOC communities. 

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.