Gaurii S Kumaar

Gaurii Kumaar is a Dallas-based artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation, whose practice is rooted in her upbringing in India and a sustained engagement with caste, gender, and cultural memory. From her studio in the Tin District of West Dallas, she extends this inquiry beyond the gallery through therapeutic art and yoga workshops at the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas, the National Mall in Washington, DC, and through the City of Frisco’s Cultural Affairs Master Plan — bringing the same questions of belonging and inherited identity that animate her studio work into direct contact with community.

Kumar has exhibited at the Amarillo Art Museum Biennial, the Smithsonian-affiliated Irving Arts Center, and Craighead Green Gallery, and presented work at the Texas Vignette Art Fair, curated by Maggie Adler. In 2025–2026, she mounted a major solo at the Eisemann Center Art Gallery and presented Golden Ancestry, her first solo exhibition with James Harris Gallery, Dallas. She is a recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant, a DMA McDermott Fellow, and a finalist for the Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant.

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, Great...