Sumakshi singh biography

Singh lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Sumakshi Singh is an artist, curator, writer and an educator who has taught and lectured at several renowned institutions including The School of the Art.
She is an artist, curator, writer and educator who has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lectured at Oxford University and Columbia.

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Bio

Sumakshi Singh’s work traverses lines between Metaphor, Reality and Illusion and ranges from plays on space-time theories to cultural, historic and physical critiques of place, manifested in performance, installation, painting and animation. Singh’s work uses disconcerting phenomenological encounters to ask questions about permanence and transience, object and image, fact and illusion, mapping and displacement, perception and knowledge, here and there while critiquing notions of “fixed“ universes and exposing the fragile set of givens upon which meaning is constructed. The artist has an extensive practice that varies from appropriating subtle microcosmic activity, to mapping perceptual objects in spaces and interacting with them as if they were real.

Singh is an artist and an educator who has taught for several years at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lectured at Oxford University, Columbia University and The Chicago Humanities Festival among other museums and colleges. She has mentored residencies for the Victoria and Albert Museum, TheWhyNotPlace 2010 and 20

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Singh received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a BFA from Maharaja Sayajiro University, Baroda, India. She is an artist, curator, writer and educator who has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lectured at Oxford University and Columbia University among other institutions. She has mentored residencies for The Victoria and Albert Museum, TheWhyNotPlace 2010 and 2011 and curated for the Devi Art Foundation.

Her interactive installations, paintings, drawings, embroideries and sculptures have been presented in solo and curated, group gallery and museum exhibitions in Australia, India, U.K., China, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Serbia and Switzerland. Exhibition venues include The Gallery of Modern art: Queensland, Saatchi Gallery: London, Kochi Biennale: Kochi, Museum of Contemporary Art: Lyon, MAXXI Museum: Rome, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art: Pittsburgh, Aicon Contemporary: New York, Museum of Contemporary Art: Chicago, Illinois State Museum: Chicago, Kunsthaus Langenthal: Switz

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Sumakshi Singh India, b. 1980

Sumakshi Singh’s work explores themes of materiality, temporality, and the interplay between physical and ephemeral spaces. Rooted in the intimate processes of drawing and embroidery, her works engage narratives from inner landscapes — of personal memory, metaphysical and emotive experience. Her practice encompasses interactive installations, paintings, drawings, and sculptures

Singh lives and works in New Delhi, India. She earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a BFA from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India. As an educator, Singh has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oxford University, and Columbia University, among others. She has mentored residencies for the Victoria and Albert Museum, TheWhyNotPlace, and curated shows for the Devi Art Foundation.

Singh’s artworks have been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions across Australia, India, the U.K., China, the USA, Canada,