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News – Dayanita Singh

  • DAYANITA SINGH AND RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE

    DAYANITA SINGH AND RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE

    Paris-Delhi-Bombay
    Centre Pompidou
    25 May - 19 September 2011

    This major exhibition will explore Indian society through the eyes of Indian and French artists. The fruit of an unprecedented Franco-Indian collaboration, _Paris-Delhi-Bombay_ is intended to promote communication between the two cultures, establishing new and lasting links. 

    The exhibition includes images from Dayanita Singh’s photographic project _House of Love_ as well as a specially commissioned film piece by Raqs Media Collective inspired by Jacques Rancière’s book La nuit des prolétaires

  • Dayanita Singh at the Venice Biennale

    Dayanita Singh at the Venice Biennale

    Singh’s work _Dream Villa Slide Show_ will be shown as part of the official exhibition _Illuminations_ at the Arsenale. This will be accompanied by a new body of work entitled _File Room_ which will comprise of approximately 40 black and white photographs. 

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    Dayanita Singh

    Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia
    23 February - 24 May 2011

    This mid career retrospective exhibition contains over 100 works which trace Singh’s practice from 1989 until the present. The exhibition includes many of Singh’s most well know series such as _I am as I Am_, _Myself Mona Ahmed_, _Go Away Closer_, _Dream Villa_ and _Blue Book_. The exhibition is travelling from MAPFRE in Spain and Huis Marseille in France.

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    DAYANITA SINGH

    MAPFRE Foundation, Madrid, Spain
    20 January - 2 May 2010

    This mid career retrospective exhibition contains over 100 works which trace Singh’s practice from 1989 until the present. The exhibition includes many of Singh’s most well know series such as I am as I Am, Myself Mona Ahmed, Go Away Closer, Dream Villa and Blue Book.

    Dayanita Singh’s work is also included in Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a group exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, 21 January - 11 April 2010. The exhibition will travel to the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, in June.

  • DAYANITA SINGH RECEIVES 2008 PRINCE CLAUS AWARD

    DAYANITA SINGH RECEIVES 2008 PRINCE CLAUS AWARD

    Dayanita Singh is one of eleven recipients of this year’s award which focused on the theme of the human Body. Singh was awarded for the outstanding quality of her images, for providing a complex and well-articulated view of contemporary India, and for introducing a new aesthetic into Indian photography.

    Singh’s work will also be included in Indian Highway, a group exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, 10 December 2008 - 22 February 2009. Exhibition travelling to Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway.

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    Dayanita Singh

    Manifesta 7
    19 July - 2 November 2008

    Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art will be hosted by the Trentino - South Tyrol Region. For the first time it will take place in Italy and will stretch across an entire regional territory - one hundred and fifty kilometres of crossroads of different cultures and intersecting traditions, rich in historical monuments and in sites of industrial archeology. It involves four cities which together create a single connecting route along the Brenner axis between the north and south of Europe: Fortezza (Bressanone), ex-Alumix factory in Bolzano, the Palazzo delle Poste in Trento, Manifattura Tabacchi and ex-Peterlini factory in Rovereto.

    Singh also takes part in Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, a group exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA, 26 April - 14 September 2008