Dayanita SINGH
Dayanita Singh’s art uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to photographic images. Her recent work, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, is a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from Singh’s interest in the archive, the museums present her photographs as interconnected bodies of work that are replete with both poetic and narrative possibilities.
Publishing is also a significant part of the artist’s practice: in her books, often made in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, she experiments with alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs. Here, Singh’s latest is the “book-object,” a work that is concurrently a book, an art object, an exhibition and a catalogue. This work, also developing from the artist’s interest in the poetic and narrative possibility of sequence and re-sequence, allows Singh to both create photographic sequence and also simultaneously disrupt it.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 - Dayanita Singh at Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London
2019 - In the Company of Artists at Hostetter Gallery, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, USA
2018 - Pop-Up Book Shop at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, USA
2018 - Time Measures and Pothi Khana at the 57th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
2017 - Museum Bhavan at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - Suitcase Museum and Kitchen Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the 20th Biennale of Sydney
2016 - Museum of Chance Book Object, a solo project at the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2016 - Museum of Chance Book Object, a solo exhibition at the Hawa Mahal, Jaipur
2015-16 - Conversation Chambers Museum Bhavan, a solo exhibition at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2014 - Go Away Closer a solo exhibition at Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2014 - Dayanita Singh a solo exhibition at the Art Institute, Chicago
2013 - Go Away Closer a solo exhibition at The Hayward Gallery
2013 - Venice Biennale a group exhibition in the German Pavilion, Venice
2012 - File Museum a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
2012 - Monuments of Knowledge, a solo exhibition at King’s India Institute, KCL, London
2012 - a solo exhibition at Nature Morte, New Delhi
2011 - a group exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale
2010 - a touring solo exhibition at Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam; Mapfre Foundation, Madrid
2009 - Indian Highway, a touring group exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London; Astrup Museum, Oslo
2008 - Dream Villa, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
2005 - Chairs, a solo exhibition at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2003 - Privacy, a solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2003 - Homelessness, a group exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
