Simranpreet Anand is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural worker creating and working between the traditional territories of the Kalapuya people (Eugene, OR) and the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo peoples (Surrey, BC). Informed by family and community, her artistic practice engages materials and concepts drawn from Punjab and the Punjabi diaspora while attending to their histories, circulation, and the seen/unseen labour held within them. She gives particular care to material culture, ancestral craft practice(s), archival histories and their disruption by colonialism and neoliberal capitalism.
Anand’s artistic and scholarly work is built on archival, ethnographic, and material research alongside community engagement. Notable projects include her touring exhibition sheeshe ‘ch tharer | a crack in the mirror (The Reach Gallery; Peel Art Museum; Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria), Foreign Dreams (Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, 2024), and Living with the Eternal (Stamps Gallery, 2024; Polygon Gallery, 2026). Her published work on Sikh visual culture appears in Sikh Formations (2026). For her artistic and community-based work, Anand has been the recipient of awards including the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award (2021), the Philip B Lind Prize (2022), and the 2024 MLK Spirit Award at the University of Michigan.
Anand holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Michigan, and a BFA with Honours from the University of British Columbia. She is Visual Arts Faculty at Lane Community College in Eugene, OR where she spends her free time as an active member of the Eugene Climbers of Color.