
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.
Jagdeep Raina
Floral Coat
Jagdeep Raina – Floral Coat, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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Jagdeep Raina
Quiet Kinships
Jagdeep Raina – Quiet Kinships, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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The Garment of Shapes and Angles
Jagdeep Raina – The Garment of Shapes and Angles, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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Silk Diamonds
Jagdeep Raina – Silk Diamonds, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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We deserve to live
Jagdeep Raina – We deserve to live, 2022
Embroidered tapestry
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Mrs Malhotra
Jagdeep Raina – Mrs Malhotra, 2022
Embroidered tapestry
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Two Rivers
Jagdeep Raina – Two Rivers, 2022
Embroidered tapestry
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The lost meadow
Jagdeep Raina – The lost meadow, 2023
Embroidered tapestry
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Window by the sea
Jagdeep Raina – Window by the sea, 2023
Embroidered tapestry
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She travels softly through the seven gates as her garden croons for her
Jagdeep Raina – She travels softly through the seven gates as her garden croons for her, 2022
Silk and cotton embroidered tapestry
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Nargis
Jagdeep Raina – Nargis, 2022
Embroidered tapestry, kashmiri embroidered sozni on natural dye muslin
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I Will Dream of Peace
Jagdeep Raina – I Will Dream of Peace, 2022
Embroidered tapestry, kashmiri embroidered ambi on natural dye Muslin
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Jagdeep Raina
Lady of the Lake
Jagdeep Raina – Lady of the Lake, 2022
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In This Lake of Bones
Jagdeep Raina – In This Lake of Bones, 2022
Embroidered tapestry
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Protector
Jagdeep Raina – Protector, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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Jagdeep Raina
Inheritance
Jagdeep Raina – Inheritance, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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What She Told Me
Jagdeep Raina – What She Told Me, 2022
Mixed media on paper
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Everything Left Unsaid at the Libby Leshgold Gallery
Everything Left Unsaid at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, 2023
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The Great Divide
Jagdeep Raina – The Great Divide, 2022
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border
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Jagdeep Raina
Moon Garden Punjabi Birds
Jagdeep Raina – Moon Garden Punjabi Birds, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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Gorgeous Farmer
Jagdeep Raina – Gorgeous Farmer, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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Punjabi Pesticide Suicides
Jagdeep Raina – Punjabi Pesticide Suicides, 2022
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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These are corpses in the rivers of Punjab
Jagdeep Raina – These are corpses in the rivers of Punjab, 2021
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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Let me taste purple silk monsoons in these Bathinda fields
Jagdeep Raina – Let me taste purple silk monsoons in these Bathinda fields, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, sainchi phulkari border on muslin
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Chemical cotton hands
Jagdeep Raina – Chemical cotton hands, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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Blood Money
Jagdeep Raina – Blood Money, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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Delicate Grief
Jagdeep Raina – Delicate Grief, 2020
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border on muslin
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Remember how my grandmother spun her wooden charkha? Remember how she spun your soft, supple cotton into luxurious thread?
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
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Spirit in The Village Fields
Jagdeep Raina – Spirit in The Village Fields, 2022
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
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Those old roads
Jagdeep Raina – Those old roads, 2022
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
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When i became immortal by the clay stove
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
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Say hello when you see me
Jagdeep Raina – Say hello when you see me, 2022
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
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The only sound left
Jagdeep Raina – The only sound left, 2022
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
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River Lovers
Jagdeep Raina – River Lovers, 2022
Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted, binded into a quilt
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I Will Love You Forever
Jagdeep Raina – I Will Love You Forever, 2022
Graphite on paper
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Villages Lives
Jagdeep Raina – Villages Lives, 2022
Graphite on paper
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Sickening Winged Eyeliner
Jagdeep Raina – Sickening Winged Eyeliner, 2020
Mixed media on paper
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Shakila on the broadway
Jagdeep Raina – Shakila on the broadway, 2020
Mixed media on paper and embroidery on silk
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Shushmaji’s record collection at spice radio
Jagdeep Raina – Shushmaji’s record collection at spice radio, 2015
Mixed media on paper
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Jagdeep Raina
Soft Opening, Piccadilly Circus Station
Jagdeep Raina – Soft Opening, Piccadilly Circus Station, 2017
Mixed Media on Paper
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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
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
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Standing in front of you now, one wonders the sheer magnificance and grace in which you pioneered our history
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
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Factory Grind
Jagdeep Raina – Factory Grind, 2016
Mixed media
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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
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
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Attentions mates! Why is our paki nationality not an outdated concept?
Jagdeep Raina – Attentions mates! Why is our paki nationality not an outdated concept?, 2017
Mixed media on paper
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To stand there and smile
Jagdeep Raina – To stand there and smile, 2016
Mixed media on paper