Twelve artists across three generations consider the architecture of intimacy — how rooms, gardens, and the spaces between bodies become vessels for memory.
Reena Kallat, The Hyphenated Room (II), 2026.
Mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Pyar Foundation.
Group exhibition · incl. Tejas Virs, Knox Kronenberg + 10 artists
Tejas Vir & Knox Kronenberg · Two-person exhibition
Tejas Vir · Photography
Knox Kronenberg · Photography
Annual Commission
Pyar — Punjabi and Hindi for love — is the founding principle of this institution. We hold that to give serious attention to art is itself an act of love: a discipline of looking, listening, and time.
Established in 2026 by Singh Capital, the Pyar Foundation is an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to contemporary art and ideas. Our programme spans solo and group exhibitions, an annual architectural commission, residencies, a public-access library, and a growing collection focused on South Asia and its diasporas in dialogue with the wider contemporary world.
We work slowly. We commission deeply. We believe in the gallery as a place where attention can still be given freely, and given well.
Each year, the Foundation commissions a major new work and an architectural pavilion. We resource artists to make what could not otherwise be made.
A focused collection of contemporary art across painting, sculpture, photography, film, and installation — held in public trust and shown often.
Lectures, performances, screenings, and the Pyar Reading Room — a research library and quiet space open to all visitors without appointment.
Free school programmes, a teen council, university partnerships, and an artist-in-residence programme that brings practitioners into sustained conversation with our communities.
Founder & President
Chanmeet Narang founded the Pyar Foundation in 2026 as an independent institution for contemporary art. Her vision centres on the role of attention in contemporary life — the gallery as a place to slow down, look closely, and be in honest conversation with the present moment.
A principal of Singh Capital, Narang has built the Foundation around a deceptively simple premise: that to give serious time to art is itself a form of love. That premise is the test the Foundation applies to its exhibitions, its commissions, and its public programmes.
"We named the Foundation after the simplest word we know. We wanted that simplicity to be the test for everything we do."
The Pyar Foundation is a non-profit institution founded by Chanmeet Narang and endowed by Singh Capital. While Singh Capital provides the Foundation's endowment, the institution operates with full curatorial and programmatic independence under the direction of its Board of Trustees.
Bharti Kher
Tejas Virs
Nasreen Mohamedi
Knox Kronenberg
On thresholds, borders, and the architecture of belonging.
A commissioned composition for vibraphone and 12 voices, performed in the North Pavilion.
Open studio for children and accompanying adults, led by artist Astha Butail.
A conversation on the writings of Berger and Sontag, with curator-in-residence Diya Mehta.
Late opening with curator-led tours, music, and a reception in the courtyard.
The Pyar Foundation
1700 N Quincy Street
Arlington, Virginia 22207
United States
Members give the Pyar Foundation the freedom to commission ambitiously, programme without compromise, and keep certain doors — the Reading Room, our school programmes, our Thursday evenings — open to everyone.
All membership and giving directly supports the artists we commission and the programmes we offer to the public. The Pyar Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution.
Free admission for one. Early access to programme tickets.
Free admission for two. Members-only previews and salons.
Curator-led tours, studio visits, and the annual Patrons' Dinner.
Direct support of the annual commission and the artists at its centre. Recognition in commissioning credits.
By invitation. A small group of donors shaping the Foundation's first decade.
