I Will Meet You Yet Again: Contemporary Sikh Art

January 28–May 26, 2024

I Will Meet You Yet Again invites a fresh look at the history and vitality of the Sikh culture through paintings, posters, tapestries, and multimedia installations. A hybrid array of material approaches reflect personal and gendered perspectives on the history of the community and its visual expressions. The works on view inform a Sikh understanding of “home,” as told through the eyes of Sikh and non-Sikh artists. Their narratives find inspiration in holy scriptures, legacies of persecution and protest, and the entwined forces of home and longing at play throughout the Sikh community’s struggle for existence.

Explore the virtual exhibition below:

PRESS RELEASE: I Will Meet You Yet Again: Contemporary Sikh Art

Participating artists
Arpana Caur, Kanwal Dhaliwal, Gauri Gill, Bholla Javed, Rupy Kaloti, Harleen Kaur, Keerat Kaur, Manjot Kaur, Sunroop Kaur, Gurjote S. Sethi, Nisha K. Sethi, Avtar Singh, The Singh Twins, Parm Singh, Sarabjit Singh, Sukhpreet Singh, Sumeet Singh, Rupy C. Tut, and Saira Wasim

Credits
This exhibition is organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and curated by Sonia Dhami, president of Art & Tolerance, trustee of The Sikh Foundation, and managing editor of the Sikh Research Journal; and Syona Puliady, curator of textiles of the Eastern Hemisphere at the Fowler Museum.

Major support is provided by the Lilly Endowment Inc. and The Sikh Foundation. Additional generous funding comes from the Fay Bettye Green Fund to Commission New Work, Fowler Contemporary Council Fund, and the Five Rivers Foundation/Khanuja Family. Educational programming is made possible by Lilly Endowment Inc, as part of the Fowler initiative, Engaging Lived Religion.

Image: Saira Wasim (b. 1975, Lahore, Pakistan), On Road to Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib, 2023; gouache and gold on wasli paper; Courtesy of the artist and the Khanuja Collection