Ina Kaur is a native of New Delhi, India, and currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in printmaking and ceramics and serves as Curator of Creative Practice at the Newcomb Art Museum, where she leads community-centered initiatives. Her practice extends beyond the studio into pedagogy and curatorial work, grounded in responsive and socially engaged cultural practices. Kaur has exhibited nationally and internationally and has presented lectures and workshops sharing her research across the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies and continues to expand her practice through material exploration and community engagement.
My studio practice responds to the human condition within entangled social, political, and ecological crises. I navigate layered histories of colonialism, migration, patriarchy, and environmental precarity through my lived experience as an outsider and as a woman. Working across intimate, impressionistic mediums including printmaking, ceramics, and performance, I explore belonging, survival, and the fragile persistence of being. Materials and processes become metaphor, with earth as body and form as testimony. Drawing from postcolonial theory, hydrofeminism, oral histories, and embodied knowledge, I develop a personal vocabulary that resists assigned identities while examining systems of displacement. My work asks how we remain present, here and elsewhere, within unstable landscapes of home, climate, and self.
