Gut Feelings Meri Jaan by Jasleen Kaur
Jasleen Kaur (b.1986 Pollokshields, Glasgow) lives and works in London, UK. Solo exhibitions include Boomerang, Hollybush Gardens, London; Alter Altar, Tramway, Glasgow (2023); Flesh ‘n’ Blood, Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2021); Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, Touchstones Rochdale (2021) and Be Like Teflon, Glasgow Women’s Library (2019). Kaur is the winner of the 2024 Turner Prize, and the 2021 Paul Hamlyn Artist Award. In 2025, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Glasgow School of Art.
Selected group exhibitions include The Three Legged Cat, 18th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Maybe we could both belong, Den Frie, Copenhagen; PUSH THE LIMITS 2, Merz Foundation, Turin; Who Wants Flowers When They Are Dead?, The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead; Lives Less Ordinary, Two Temple Place, London (all 2025); Imagining Otherwise, Primary, Nottingham; CLASSifications, Aspex, Portsmouth; Reluctant Gravities, Hollybush Gardens, London (2024); Not new, otherwise, Build Hollywood, Glasgow (2023); A Tall Order!, Touchstones, Rochdale (2023); My Body is a temple of Gloom, Wellcome Collection, London (2021); Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2019); The Driver’s Seat, Cubitt Gallery, London (2018); This is Water, MIMA, Middlesbrough (2018); Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2017). In 2019 her book Be Like Teflon was co-published by Glasgow Women’s Library and Dent-De-Leone.
Her work is held in public collections including Arts Council Collection, UK; Crafts Council Collection, London, UK; Fenix Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Government Arts Collection, UK; The University of Warwick Art Collection, UK; Touchstones Rochdale, UK and National Galleries of Scotland, UK.