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Dayanita Singh
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Dayanita Singh is a photographer renowned for her elegant portraits and quiet interiors. Depicted mostly in black and white are images of urban middle and upper class families and their environments. These images capture all aspests of everyday life; from the mudane daily activities of work and rest, to the more elaborate commemorations of life and death. Moving away from the people within her frame, Singh, more recently, has begun to focus...
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Dayanita Singh is a photographer renowned for her elegant portraits and quiet interiors. Depicted mostly in black and white are images of urban middle and upper class families and their environments. These images capture all aspests of everyday life; from the mudane daily activities of work and rest, to the more elaborate commemorations of life and death. Moving away from the people within her frame, Singh, more recently, has begun to focus on the physical space which surrounds them. Her impeccable shots are an outcome of sincere observation and utmost patience.
“Dayanita's work is far from straight forward documentary, neither is it a pictorial catalogue of India's rich and famous. More specifically her family portraits would locate her in the line of Diane Arbus or even Nan Goldin. I would argue that such comparisons are simplistic and Dayanita's own development will render them redundant. Dayanita's particular quality is the enigmatic mix of ease and tension that she seems to draw out of her subject, even as she fixes them with a degree of informed objectivity that approximates the documentary style. Yet it is in the absent self that suggests that she is somehow herself within each frame…” explains curator and art critic Gayatri Sinha.
Dayanita Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961. From 1980 to 1986 she studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahemdabad, and in 1988, she completed a course in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Centre of Photography, New York. Having participated in numerous shows worldwide, Dayanita’s most recent solo endeavors include ‘Dream Villa’ at Frith Street Gallery, London; ‘Go Away Closer and Sent a Letter’ at Hermes Pace, Berlin; and ‘Sent a Letter’ at Nature Morte, Berlin, all in 2008; Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, in 2007; Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2006; and ‘Beds and Chairs’ at Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, also in 2006. Her most recent group shows include, ‘Indian Highway’ at Serpentine Gallery, London, in 2008; ‘Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony’ at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, in 2008; ‘Philosophy of the Bedroom’ at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, and the Leeds City Art Gallery, in 2007; and ‘Summer Exhibition’ at Frith Street Gallery, London, in 2006.
In 2008, Dayanita received the Prince Claus Award, Amsterdam, and the Robert Gadner Fellowship, from Harvard University, Boston.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1961
New Delhi
Education
1987-88 Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography, New York
1980-86 Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016-17 'Suitcase Museum', Bhau Daji...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016-17 'Suitcase Museum', Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2014 The Art Institute of Chicago
2013 'Go Away Closer', Hayward Gallery, London
2012 'The Adventures of a Photographer', Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2011 Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia
2011 'House of Love', The Peabody Museum, Massachusetts
2010 'Retrospective', Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam organized by MAPFRE Foundation , Madrid
2010 Sala Azca De Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid
2009 'Blue Book', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2009 'Blue Book', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2008-09 'Let You Go', Nature Morte, Berlin
2008 ‘Dream Villa’, Frith Street Gallery, London
2008 ‘Go Away Closer and Sent a Letter’, Hermes pace, Berlin
2008 ‘Sent a Letter’, Nature Morte, Berlin
2007 Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2007 Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007 Kriti Gallery, Benares
2006 Nature Morte, New Delhi
2006 ‘Beds and Chairs’, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome
2005 ‘Chairs’, Studio Guenzani, Milan; Frith Street Gallery, London; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2004 ‘Privacy’, Les Rencontres d'Arles Festival, Arles
2003 ‘Privacy’, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003 ‘Myself Mona Ahmed’, Museum fuer Indische Kunst, Berlin
2003 ‘Dayanita Singh: Image/Text (Photographs 1989–2002)’, Department of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
2002 ‘I Am As I Am, Myself Mona Ahmed’, Scalo Galerie, Zurich and New York
2002 ‘Parsees at Home’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 ‘Bombay to Goa’, Art House India, Goa
2001 ‘I Am as I Am’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2001 ‘Empty Spaces’, Frith Street Gallery, London
2000 ‘Dayanita Singh’, Stockholm
2000 ‘Dayanita Singh’, Brussels
2000 ‘Demello Vado’, Saligao Institute, Goa
1999 ‘Family Portraits’, Studio Guenzani, Milan
1998 ‘Another India’, Crealde School of Art Orlando
1998 ‘Family Portraits’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
1997 ‘Images from the 90's’, Scalo, Zurich
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Seven Contemporaries', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2013 'Poses and Views', Nature Morte, Berlin
2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2011-12 'Serial Pursuits', Nature Morte, Berlin
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'Metropolis', The New Art Gallery Walsall
2010 'After the Volcano', Frith Street Gallery, London
2010 'Black and White', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2009 'Detour', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2009 'India 3: New Delhi- Republic of Illusions', Galerie Krinzinger, Wein
2008 'Fault Lines', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 ‘Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony’, (showing: Nagaur Fort and Sistine Chapel), Peabody Essex Museum
2007 ‘Philosophy of the Bedroom’, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York (touring to Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, and Leeds City Art Gallery)
2006 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Frith Street Gallery, London
2005 ‘Presence’, Sepia International, New York
2004 ‘Positive Lives’, Hong Kong Central Library, Hongkong, China
2004 ‘Summer Show’, Frith Street Gallery, London
2004 ‘Ten Commandments’, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2003 ‘Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2003 ‘Pinakotek der Moderne’, Munich 'Architecture of Homelessness
2003 ‘The Family’, Windsor Gallery, Florida
2002 ‘Red Light’, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney
2002 ‘Kapital und Karma’, Aktuelle Positionen indischer Kunst, Kunsthalle, Wien
2002 ‘Bollywood: Das indische Kino und die Schweiz’, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
2002 ‘Banaras: The Luminous City’, Asia Society, New York
2002 ‘Photo Sphere’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2000 ‘Century Cit’, Tate Modern, London
1999 ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’, New York
1999 ‘Indian Art’, Sydney
1999 ‘Inferno and Paradiso’, Umea Museum, Sweden
1999 ‘Worlds of Work: Images of the South’, Musée d’ethnographie, Geneva
1998 ‘Black and White: 50 Years and the Indian Woman’, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai
1998 ‘Canon Top Ten Photographers’, New Delhi, Mumbai
1998 ‘La Filature’, Mulhouse France
1998 ‘Another India’, Crealdé School of Art, Orlando, Florida
1997-99 ‘India: A Celebration of Independence’, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Knoxville, Museum of Art; Chicago Cultural Center; Royal Festival Hall, London; National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, Mumbai; Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata; Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
1997 ‘India: A Contemporary View’, Asian Arts Museum San Francisco
1997 ‘Out of India’, Queens Museum of Art, New York
1995 ‘So Many Worlds: Photographs from DU Magazine’, Holderbank, Aargau, Switzerland
Joint Exhibitions
2011 'La Vie En Rose', with Yuan Yuan at Sakshi Gallery, Taipei
1999 Dayanita Singh and Manisha Parekh, Milan
Participations
2012-13 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'Art & Stars & Cars: The Daimler Art Collection', Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart
2011 'Illuminations', part of Venice Biennale, Italy
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2010 'Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh', Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2009 ‘Art Basel’, Switzerland presented by Nature Morte / Bose Pacia
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain presented by Bose Pacia/ Nature Morte
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2008 ‘Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art’, Italy
2008 ‘The 7th Gwangju Biennale: A Year in Exhibitions’, South Korea
2007 Les Rencontres D'Arles Photographie, Arles
2006 ‘Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960’, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2006 ‘The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2005-07 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Queens Museum of Art and the Asia Society, New York; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2005 ‘Die Zehn Gebote’, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dreseden, Germany
2004 ‘Rencontres de la photographie Arles 2004’, France
2002 ‘Bombay to Goa’, Kalaghoda Festival, Mumbai
1999 ‘Venice Photo Biennale’, Venice
Honours and Awards
2008 Prince Claus Award, by the Government of The Netherlands
2008 Robert Gardner Fellowship, Harvard University
2008 Prince Claus Award, by the Government of The Netherlands
2008 Robert Gardner Fellowship, Harvard University
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