Silver Eye

Siri Kaur’s Sistermoon interweaves intimate family portraits with magical visions of the natural world, exploring shifting relationships between selfhood, kinship, and time.

For thirty years, Kaur collaborated with her youngest sister, Simran, who is both her muse and the exhibition’s central figure. Other family members appear at key moments, from a snapshot of her parents’ wedding in 1976 to portraits of her father at home in Vermont and her young son at rest and play. These multigenerational family portraits are juxtaposed with elemental forces of nature, evoking matrilineal power and interconnected cycles of life and renewal.

Kaur’s photographic practice blurs the boundaries between artist and subject, portraiture and self-portraiture. Drawing on Kaur and Simran’s experiences of adolescence and womanhood, the work raises broader questions: How does photography shape the relationship between artist and muse? What does it mean to grow up in a culture that objectifies women? And what does it mean to truly look at another person, and to be looked at in return?

This first extensive presentation of Sistermoon includes never-before-published photographs. Siri Kaur’s Sistermoon (VOID, 2025) is available from Silver Eye.

Participating Artist

1. Siri Kaur is an artist and photographer who examines identities that occupy dualities, diversity, and contradiction, with a rigorous eye for the photographic quality of magic. She received her MFA from The California Institute of the Arts, and an MA and a BA from Smith College. Kaur’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Blythe Projects, Cohen Gallery, and Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; at 99¢ Plus, New York; at the Vermont Center for Photography, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Group shows include those at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Riverside Art Museum, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Aperture Foundation, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Camera Club of New York, among others. Kaur’s work has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, Granta, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She was a Professor of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design from 2007-2018 and currently teaches at UCLA. Kaur’s book Sistermoon was published by Photo Void in Fall 2025.