Jagdeep Raina

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Jagdeep Raina (b. 1991, Guelph, Ontario, Canada) has an interdisciplinary practice that spans textile, drawing, writing, ceramics, 35mm film and video animation, Jagdeep Raina 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.

Raina is currently a Fellow at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and was previously a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University, a recipient of the 2020 Sobey Art Award, and a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his BFA from Western University in 2013, his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. He has exhibited internationally at the Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris; Todd Madigan Art Gallery at California State University, Bakersfield; Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; Museum of Contemporary Art; Textile Museum, Toronto; Soft Opening, London; (Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis; Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph; Cooper Cole, Toronto; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Humber Galleries, Toronto; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown; Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); and Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, amongst others.  His works can be found in the permanent collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Guelph. Raina lives and works in Houston, Texas, USA.

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Floral Coat

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Jagdeep Raina – Floral Coat, 2022

Mixed media on paper

50" X 63"
127cm X 160.02cm

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Quiet Kinships

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Jagdeep Raina – Quiet Kinships, 2022

Mixed media on paper

22" X 30"
55.88cm X 76.2cm

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The Garment of Shapes and Angles

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Jagdeep Raina – The Garment of Shapes and Angles, 2022

Mixed media on paper

31" X 23.5"
78.74cm X 59.69cm

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Silk Diamonds

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Jagdeep Raina – Silk Diamonds, 2022

Mixed media on paper

31" X 23.5"
78.74cm X 59.69cm

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We deserve to live

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Jagdeep Raina – We deserve to live, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

18" X 9"
45.72cm X 22.86cm

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Mrs Malhotra

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Jagdeep Raina – Mrs Malhotra, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

30" X 9"
76.2cm X 22.86cm

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Two Rivers

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Jagdeep Raina – Two Rivers, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

20" X 18"
50.8cm X 45.72cm

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The lost meadow

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Jagdeep Raina – The lost meadow, 2023

Embroidered tapestry

11.5" X 3"
29.21cm X 7.62cm

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Window by the sea

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Jagdeep Raina – Window by the sea, 2023

Embroidered tapestry

7" X 5"
17.78cm X 12.7cm

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She travels softly through the seven gates as her garden croons for her

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Jagdeep Raina – She travels softly through the seven gates as her garden croons for her, 2022

Silk and cotton embroidered tapestry

26" X 17"
66.04cm X 43.18cm

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Nargis

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Jagdeep Raina – Nargis, 2022

Embroidered tapestry, kashmiri embroidered sozni on natural dye muslin

7" X 6"
17.78cm X 15.24cm

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I Will Dream of Peace

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Jagdeep Raina – I Will Dream of Peace, 2022

Embroidered tapestry, kashmiri embroidered ambi on natural dye Muslin

14" X 11"
35.56cm X 27.94cm

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Lady of the Lake

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Jagdeep Raina – Lady of the Lake, 2022

17" X 9"
43.18cm X 22.86cm

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In This Lake of Bones

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Jagdeep Raina – In This Lake of Bones, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

26.5" X 10"
67.31cm X 25.4cm

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Protector

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Jagdeep Raina – Protector, 2022

Mixed media on paper

72" X 50.25"
182.88cm X 127.63cm

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Inheritance

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Jagdeep Raina – Inheritance, 2022

Mixed media on paper

50" X 58"
127cm X 147.32cm

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What She Told Me

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Jagdeep Raina – What She Told Me, 2022

Mixed media on paper

38.25" X 40"
97.15cm X 101.6cm

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Everything Left Unsaid at the Libby Leshgold Gallery

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Everything Left Unsaid at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, 2023

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The Great Divide

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Jagdeep Raina – The Great Divide, 2022

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border

76" X 27"
193.04cm X 68.58cm

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Moon Garden Punjabi Birds

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Jagdeep Raina – Moon Garden Punjabi Birds, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

27" X 10"
68.58cm X 25.4cm

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Gorgeous Farmer

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Jagdeep Raina – Gorgeous Farmer, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

19" X 16"
48.26cm X 40.64cm

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Punjabi Pesticide Suicides

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Jagdeep Raina – Punjabi Pesticide Suicides, 2022

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

15" X 19"
38.1cm X 48.26cm

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These are corpses in the rivers of Punjab

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Jagdeep Raina – These are corpses in the rivers of Punjab, 2021

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

13" X 24"
33.02cm X 60.96cm

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Let me taste purple silk monsoons in these Bathinda fields

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Jagdeep Raina – Let me taste purple silk monsoons in these Bathinda fields, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, sainchi phulkari border on muslin

18" X 20"
45.72cm X 50.8cm

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Chemical cotton hands

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Jagdeep Raina – Chemical cotton hands, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

16" X 7"
40.64cm X 17.78cm

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Blood Money

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Jagdeep Raina – Blood Money, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

18" X 20"
45.72cm X 50.8cm

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Delicate Grief

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Jagdeep Raina – Delicate Grief, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

14.5" X 5"
36.83cm X 12.7cm

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Remember how my grandmother spun her wooden charkha? Remember how she spun your soft, supple cotton into luxurious thread?

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Jagdeep Raina – Remember how my grandmother spun her wooden charkha? Remember how she spun your soft, supple cotton into luxurious thread?, 2020

Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin

22" X 24"
55.88cm X 60.96cm

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Spirit in The Village Fields

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Jagdeep Raina – Spirit in The Village Fields, 2022

Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt

32.4" X 39"
82.3cm X 99.06cm

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Jagdeep Raina

Those old roads

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Jagdeep Raina – Those old roads, 2022

Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt

31.4" X 39.4"
79.76cm X 100.08cm

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Jagdeep Raina

When i became immortal by the clay stove

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Jagdeep Raina – When i became immortal by the clay stove, 2022

Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt

31" X 39.1"
78.74cm X 99.31cm

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Say hello when you see me

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Jagdeep Raina – Say hello when you see me, 2022

Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt

31" X 39.1"
78.74cm X 99.31cm

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The only sound left

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Jagdeep Raina – The only sound left, 2022

Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt

32" X 39"
81.28cm X 99.06cm

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River Lovers

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Jagdeep Raina – River Lovers, 2022

Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt

31.6" X 40"
80.26cm X 101.6cm

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I Will Love You Forever

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Jagdeep Raina – I Will Love You Forever, 2022

Graphite on paper

73" X 50"
185.42cm X 127cm

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Villages Lives

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Jagdeep Raina – Villages Lives, 2022

Graphite on paper

31" X 23.5"
78.74cm X 59.69cm

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Sickening Winged Eyeliner

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Jagdeep Raina – Sickening Winged Eyeliner, 2020

Mixed media on paper

26" X 40"
66.04cm X 101.6cm

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Shakila on the broadway

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Jagdeep Raina – Shakila on the broadway, 2020

Mixed media on paper and embroidery on silk

38" X 40"
96.52cm X 101.6cm

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Shushmaji’s record collection at spice radio

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Jagdeep Raina – Shushmaji’s record collection at spice radio, 2015

Mixed media on paper

50" X 60"
127cm X 152.4cm

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Soft Opening, Piccadilly Circus Station

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Jagdeep Raina – Soft Opening, Piccadilly Circus Station, 2017

Mixed Media on Paper

44" X 60"
111.76cm X 152.4cm

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And I’m standing here in awe, tasting the labour, this hardfelt labour to allow us to see the beauty of your ecological Mississauga-Punjabi baghs humbly grow Part II

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Jagdeep Raina – And I’m standing here in awe, tasting the labour, this hardfelt labour to allow us to see the beauty of your ecological Mississauga-Punjabi baghs humbly grow Part II, 2019

Mixed media on paper

26" X 40"
66.04cm X 101.6cm

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Standing in front of you now, one wonders the sheer magnificance and grace in which you pioneered our history

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Jagdeep Raina – Standing in front of you now, one wonders the sheer magnificance and grace in which you pioneered our history, 2017

Mixed media on paper

30" X 22"
76.2cm X 55.88cm

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Factory Grind

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Jagdeep Raina – Factory Grind, 2016

Mixed media

26" X 40"
66.04cm X 101.6cm

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Dear Kala Preet, you heart-wrenchingly poured your heart out for us. From girls on their bikes in 1988 to young youth in 2016, you are still here

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Jagdeep Raina – Dear Kala Preet, you heart-wrenchingly poured your heart out for us. From girls on their bikes in 1988 to young youth in 2016, you are still here, 2016

Mixed media on paper

22" X 30"
55.88cm X 76.2cm

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Attentions mates! Why is our paki nationality not an outdated concept?

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Jagdeep Raina – Attentions mates! Why is our paki nationality not an outdated concept?, 2017

Mixed media on paper

22" X 30"
55.88cm X 76.2cm

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To stand there and smile

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Jagdeep Raina – To stand there and smile, 2016

Mixed media on paper

22" X 30"
55.88cm X 76.2cm

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Phiran

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Jagdeep Raina – Phiran, 2019

Embroidered tapestry and Punjabi phulkari border on muslin

20" X 18"
50.8cm X 45.72cm

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Paradise Lost

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Jagdeep Raina – Paradise Lost, 2019

Embroidered tapestry and Punjabi phulkari border on muslin

18" X 30"
45.72cm X 76.2cm