Russna Kaur (b. 1991, Brampton, Ontario) is a painter currently living and working in Richmond, British Columbia. Kaur completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Waterloo (2013) and a Master of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019).
Is the recipient of the Takao Tanabe Painting Prize (2020) and the IDEA Art Award (2020). She was awarded the Gathie Falk Visual Arts Scholarship (2019), the University Women’s Club of Vancouver Graduate Scholarship (2017), and an Audain Faculty of Art Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2018).
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Burrard Arts Foundation (2020) in Vancouver and received the Centrum Emerging Artist Residency (2020) in Port Townsend, Washington.Has exhibited works nationally at institutions including the Remai Modern (2023), Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (2022), and Kamloops Art Gallery (2021).
She was commissioned to create work for the Boren Banner Series at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2021), and has shown internationally in Mumbai, IN (2023). Russna Kaur’s work is held in numerous collections including the RBC Art Collection, Audain Art Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Surrey Art Gallery, and the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.