Rajkamal Kahlon is a Berlin-based American artist, whose multimedia practice recuperates drawing and painting as sites of aesthetic and political resistance. Kahlon received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts. She is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. In 2021, Kahlon became a professor of painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany. Kahlon’s work has been exhibited internationally in the 2012 Taipei Biennial; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. Her recent solo exhibitions include Rajkamal Kahlon: The People of the Earth at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, in 2019 and Rajkamal Kahlon: And Still I Rise at Sacramento State University Galleries, California, in 2021. Kahlon is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and residencies, including the 2019 Villa Romana Prize, the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award, the Pollock-Krasner Award, and the 2021 Hans and Lea Grundig Prize.