Harmanpreet Randhawa

I am an artist and artist-curator working across drawing, performance, sculpture, writing, and curation. Informed by material semiotics, postcolonial thought, and lived experience, my practice gestures at the limits of dominant Western knowledge systems, particularly the ways they render other ways of knowing and being irrational or illegible. Attending to the complex relationships between language/words, culture, knowledge, identity, and the body, my work advances a mode of narration that values pluralism, abstraction and opacity, resisting linear and readily visible forms of meaning.

Most recently, I performed Atte di chiri (Sparrow of dough) at Grand Union, Birmingham. Previously, I curated The Hole in the Whole at Eastside Projects, a group exhibition featuring Ashkan Sepahvand, Valerie Asiimwe Amani, and Phoebe Collings James. I was a Creative-in-Residence at Modern Art Oxford as part of their Boundary Encounters programme. In 2024, I was commissioned by Performing Borders to write a creative response to Fierce Festival. My writing has also appeared in the Art Review Oxford.