Dayanita Singh
*1961 in New Delhi, IND.
Solo exhibitions:
2012
File Museum, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Dayanita Singh / The Adventures of a Photographer, Bildmuseet, Umea University, SE
Monuments of Knowledge, Photographs by Dayanita Singh, Kings College London, UK
House of Love, Nature Morte, New Delhi, IND
2011
Adventures of a Photographer, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, JP
House of Love, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Museum of Art, Bogota, CO
2010
Dayanita Singh, Huis Marseille Museum fotografie, Amsterdam, NL
Dayanita Singh, Mapfre Foundation, Madrid, ES
Dream Villa, Nature Morte, New Delhi, IND
2009
Blue Book, Nature Morte, New Delhi, IND
Blue Book, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Bombay, IND
2008
Let You Go, Nature Morte, Berlin, DE
Dream Villa, Frith Street Gallery, London, IND
Sent a Letter, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, IND
Sent a Letter, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, IND
Ladies of Calcutta, Bose Pacia Gallery, Calcutta, IND
2007
Go Away Closer, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, IND
Beds and Chairs, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, IND
Go Away Closer, Kriti Gallery, Benares, IND
Go Away Closer, Rencontres-arles. Arles, FR
2006
Go Away Closer, Nature Morte, India, IND
Beds and Chairs, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, IT
2005
Chairs, Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT
Chairs, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Chairs, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2004
Privacy, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, FR
2003
Privacy, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
Myself Mona Ahmed, Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin, DE
Dayanita Singh: Image/Text (Photographs 1989–2002), Department of Art and Aesthetics Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, IND
2002
I am as I am, Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Galerie, Zurich, CH and New York, USA
Parsees at Home, Gallery Chemould, Bombay, IND
Bombay to Goa, Kalaghoda Festival, Bombay, IND
Bombay to Goa, Art House India, Goa, IND
2001
I am as I am, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Empty Spaces, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
2000
Dayanita Singh, Stockholm, SE
Dayanita Singh, Brussels, BE
Demello Vado, Saligao Institute, Goa, IND
1999
Venice Photo Biennale, Venice, IT
Family Portraits, Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT
1998
Another India, Crealde School of Art Orlando, USA
Family Portraits Nature Morte, New Delhi, IND
1997
Images from the 90′s. Scalo, Zurich, CH
Selected group shows:
2013
German Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
2012
Street, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2011
Indian Highway, The National Museum of XXI Art, Rome, IT
ILLUMInations, Arsenale, 54th Venice Biennale, IT
Paris – Delhi – Bombay…India through the eyes of Indian and French Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival: Dynamic Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CDN
Indian Highway, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, FR
2010
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, PK
and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, travelling to Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2009
Au Féminin, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, FR
Vases, Arden and Anstruther, UK
Indian Highway, Astrup Museum, Oslo, NO
2008
Indian Highway Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
The Home and the World, Hermes Store, New York, USA/Paris, FR/Berlin, DE
The photograph, painted posed and of the moment, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, IND
Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, Peabody Essex Museum, USA
Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, IT
The 7th Gwangju Biennale: A Year in exhibitions, South Korea, KR
2007
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Arles, FR
Private/Corporate , Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin, DE
Horn Please, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, CH
2006
Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London
Das Achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re, Rebaudengo, Turin,
Cities in Transition, NYC, Boston Hartford
2005 – 07
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Queens Museum of Art and the Asia Society, New York, USA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MEX; MARCO, Monterrey Mexico, MEX; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, IND; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, IND
2005
Presence, Sepia International, New York, USA
2004
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Ten Commandments, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, DE
2003
Architecture of Homelessness, Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich, DE
The Family, Windsor Gallery, Florida, USA
2002
Red Light, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, AU
Kapital und Karma. Aktuelle Positionen indischer Kunst, Kunsthalle, Wien, AT
Bollywood – Das indische Kino und die Schweiz, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, CH
Banaras: The Luminous City, Asia Society, New York, USA
Photo Sphere, Nature Morte, New Delhi, IND
2000
CenturyCity Tate Modern, London, UK
1999
Another Girl, Another Planet, New York, USA
Indian Art, Sydney, AU
Dayanita Singh and Manisha Parekh, Milan, IT
Inferno and Paradiso,Umea Museum, Sweden, SE
Worlds of Work – images of the south, Musée d’ethnographie, Geneva, CH
1998
Black and White – 50 Years and the Indian Woman, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, IND
Canon Top Ten Photographers, Delhi, Bombay, IND
La Filature, Mulhouse France, FR
Another India, Crealdé School of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
1997-1999
India – a Celebration of Independence: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia, USA
Museum of Fine Arts; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Knoxville, Museum of Art; Chicago Cultural Center; Royal Festival Hall London. NGMA; Delhi, IND
NGMA Bombay, Victoria Memorial Calcutta, Lalit Kala, Madras, IND
1997
India – A Contemporary View, Asian Arts Museum San Francisco, USA
Out of India. Queens Museum of Art. New York, USA
1995
So many worlds – Photographs from DU Magazine, Holderbank, Aargau, CH
Selected awards:
2008
Prince Claus Award, Amsterdam Robert Gardner Fellowship, Harvard University, USA
Another India, Crealdé School of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
Selected bibliography:
Dayanita Singh: Adventures of a Photographer, Shiseido Corporate CultureDepartment, 2011
Dayanita Singh: House of Love, Peabody Museum Press, 2011
Dayanita Singh: Dream Villa, Steidl, 2010
Dayanita Singh: Blue Book, Steidl, 2009
Dayanita Singh: Sent a Letter, Steidl, 2008
Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer, Steidl, 2007
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, published in conjunction with the exhibition
Dayanita Singh: Chairs, Steidl, 2005
Dayanita Singh: Privacy, Steidl, 2003
Dayanita Singh: Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Verlag, 2001
Dayanita Singh: Zakir Hussain. Himalayan books, 1986