Exhibitions
CURRENT
The Goddess, The Deity and the Cyborg, Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK, to 8th September 2024. (Three paintings in group show.)
Contemporary Collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, British Museum, London, 25th April to 29th September 2024. (One drawing in group show.)
PAST
1984-85 Midland View 3.
Nottingham and Touring
1985 Three Asian Artists.
Commonwealth Institute
1985-86 Eastern Views. New Walk Museum, Leicester, and Touring
1986 Myth, Moon and Muslin
Mansfield Community Arts Centre
(Solo Exhibition)
Artists Showcase
Nottingham Castle Museum
(Solo Exhibition)
Artists in Industry
Nottingham Castle Museum and Touring
Artists in Handsworth
Ikon Gallery and Touring
1987 The Element Within
Bonington Gallery, Trent Polytechnic
Paintings by Gurminder Sikand
Sisterwrite, London
(Solo Exhibition)
Gurminder Sikand & Sutapa Biswas
Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham
Drawings by East Midlands Arts
Award Winners
Clock Yard, Derby
1988-89 Black Art: Plotting the Course
Oldham Art Gallery and Touring
1989 Avatars of Power
Flaxman Gallery,Staffordshire Polytechnic
(Solo Exhibition)
Being Here
Holden Gallery, Manchester Polytechnic
1990 Let the Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces
Herbert Art Gallery Coventry, and Touring
Arts in Town
Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich
New work on the Ramayana
Castle Museum, Nottingham
1991 Four Painters
Eastthorpe Gallery, Mirfield
1991-92 The Circular Dance
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, and Touring
1992 Paintings and Drawings by Gurminder Sikand.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
(Solo Exhibition)
Myth, Dream, and Fable
(with Paula Rego, Amanda Faulkner, Eileen Cooper)
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
Fine Material for a Dream?
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; and touring.
Taking Flight
City Art Gallery, Leicester; and the Gill Gallery, London.
Keeping It Together
Pavilion Gallery, Leeds.
The Discerning Eye
The Mall Galleries, London.
1993 Warm, Rich and Fearless
Castle Museum, Nottingham.
Samsara
Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham.
(Solo Exhibition)
1994 Wonderings in Paint
University of Nottingham.
(Solo Exhibition)
Creative Journeys
Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery.
(Solo Exhibition)
1995 Maidens, Trees and Deities
Walsall Museum and Art Gallery.
(Solo Exhibition)
Byard Gallery, Nottingham.
Derby Museum & Art Gallery
1996 Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry.
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain,
New York.
Gurminder Sikand: New Works
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
(Solo Exhibition)
1999 Paintings and fine art prints
with Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh
Blackthorn Galleries, Birkenhead
2000 Outside In. Works by Indian Artists Residing outside India
The Air Gallery, London.
2012 Palimpsest of Desire
(Solo Exhibition)
2015 The Movement of the Line
Lace Market Gallery, Nottingham.
2016 University of Nottingham summer exhibition
Djanogly Gallery, 9-23 July
2017 Breaking Boundaries
(with Sardul Gill)
Harrington Street Studios, Long Eaton
2018 See Here
Quarrylab, Nottingham
2021 The Weaver of Songs
(Solo Exhibition)
TG Gallery, Nottingham
2023 Gurminder Sikand: A Retrospective
(Solo Exhibition)
Trace Gallery, Nottingham
2023-24 RE/SISTERS. A Lens on Gender and Ecology
The Barbican, London
2023-24 Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990
Tate Britain
2024 The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg
Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK.