Gaurii S Kumaar

Kumaar explores themes of belonging and inherited rituals through her multidisciplinary practices, including painting, sculpture, and art mindfulness workshops. Her spiritual dedication to addressing gender inheritance and caste disparities is expressed through unsaid, repressed words in asemic mark-making within psychological, abstract, and iconographic fantastical landscapes that resonate universally. By integrating these creative channels, Kumaar invites audiences to engage deeply with and connect personally to these overarching themes.


As an art educator and Yoga and breathwork instructor, Kumaar creates and leads therapeutic yoga and art workshops for organizations such as the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas, the National Mall in Washington, DC, and the Community Art Meditative Murals project at The Other Art Fair.

Working out of her studio in the Tin District of West Dallas, Kumaar has shown her work at notable venues including the Amarillo Art Museum biennial, the Latino Arts Center in Dallas, and the Smithsonian-affiliated Irving Arts Center. In 2025, Kumaar received a Dallas Museum of Art Dozier Travel Grant, was a finalist for the Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant, appeared in the juried show New Texas Talent a...

Bachelor's in Architecture, Pune University, India 2002.
Masters in Landscape Architecture, UT Arlington, TX 2005. Additional Studies in Visual Communication from the UT Arlington, TX 2010.

PUBLICATIONS

2025 Published in the Paper City Magazine (Print Edition)
2025 Featured in Glasstire for my painting, Vibrating Ink, in the Texas Vignette Group Show.
2025 Acknowledged by Glasstire for winning DMA's Travel Grant.
2022 Featured in the Art Section of the Dallas Morning News
2022 Featured in Plano Style Magazine
2022 Featured in Dallas Weekly
2022 Interview on 979beat Radio
2022 Art Show featured in Dallas Morning News Print
2021 Article in D Magazine

Solo Exhibitions + Art Fairs & Festivals

* 2026 Solo Exhibition, James Harris Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2025 Solo Exhibition ‘Guided by Legacy’, Eisemann Center Art Gallery, Richardson, TX
* 2025 The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX
* 2025 "Vibrating Ink" at The Cove, McKinney, TX
* 2025 The permanent collection at the Frisco Heritage Museum features the 'Community Keys Piano Project'.
* 2024 "Vibrating Ink" at The Cove, McKinney, TX
* 2024 Arts in Bloom Art Festival, McKinney, TX
* 2024 Artscape Dallas Arboretum Art Festival, TX
* 2023 Arts in Bloom Art Festival, McKinney, TX
* 2022 Solo Exhibition ‘Ancient Hymns’, The Gallery at Collin College, Plano, TX
* 2022 Featured Artist led a Community Art Meditative Mural along with an Art Show at the International Art Fair – The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX
* 2022 Solo Exhibition ‘Ancient Hymns’, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
* 2021 Solo Exhibition ‘Ice and Fire’, Canvas Hotel, Dallas, TX
* 2021 Solo Exhibition (Grant Recipient) ‘Ancient Hymns’, Mesquite Arts Center, TX
* 2021 International Art Fair – The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX
* 2020 Essence of Being, Artist in Residence, Serendipity Labs, Hall Park, Frisco, TX

Group Exhibitions
2026

* 39th Materials: Hard + Soft + Digital Exhibition, G...