Dayanita Singh
'I gather hundreds of photographs, edit them ruthlessly and then sequence them. By then the form presents itself.'
Dayanita Singh (b. 1961, New Delhi) uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to images. Her recent works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be 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. Museum of Chance (2013), for instance, may at one moment exist as two immense pillars while at another it could fold out into flat screens, transforming into a single room in which visitors may sit at tables and converse. Recently, the museums have evolved into the singular pillar form, consisting of five cubes that can pack flat, accompanied by a stool. The modular design of Bawa Rocks (2021) allows for the rearrangement of the stackable cubes and the swapping of photographs. The images themselves reflect Singh’s love of the architecture of Geoffrey Bawa (1919–2013): ‘I went to [Bawa’s] Kandalama Hotel and I recognised it. I recognised the aesthetic, knew the light’. Singh has continued to reconceptualise architecture in a new series of Montages, which seamlessly splice together images from diverse spaces to create phantastic yet plausible settings.
Publishing is also a significant part of the artist’s practice: in her books, often published without text, Singh extends her experiments on alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs. She says, ‘the book is at the heart of my work. To me, the exhibition is the catalogue of the works in the book’.
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London Gallery Weekend
31 May–2 June 2024 31 May 2024Frith Street Gallery is delighted to participate in the fourth edition of London Gallery Weekend. A new exhibition of work by Dayanita Singh will be...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Artist Talk | The Photographers' Gallery, London 14 May 2024Book Signing | The Photographers' Gallery Bookshop Tuesday 14 May 2024, 5.30–6.30pm Dayanita Singh will be signing a selection of her publications at The Photographers'...Read more -
Dayanita Singh & Urs Stahel
Artist Talk: MAST Bologna 22 Nov 2023Out of the box | Stories from the portable museum Wednesday 22 November 2023, 6.30pm Dayanita Singh will be in conversation with Urs Stahel sharing...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Dancing with my Camera: Serralves, Porto 16 Nov 202316 November 2023–3 March 2024 Public Opening | 16 November 2023 Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera will open at its fourth and final touring...Read more
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Dayanita Singh & Dr. Mario Kramer
Artist Talk: Schaulager Laurenz Foundation, Basel 5 Nov 2023Sunday 5 November 2023 | 12 p.m. Schaulager Laurenz Foundation, Basel Dayanita Singh will be participating in an artist talk as part of the...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
35th Bienal de São Paulo 6 Sep 20236 September–10 December 2023 The Bienal de São Paulo has announced a partial list of artists that will take part in its upcoming 35th edition,...Read more -
Tacita Dean & Dayanita Singh
Out of the Box at Schaulager Laurenz Foundation 10 Jun 202310 June–19 November 2023 Including work by Tacita Dean and Dayanita Singh Schaulager will present a major group exhibition to celebrate 20 years of the...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Dancing with my Camera at Mudam, Luxembourg 12 May 202312 May–10 September 2023 11 May | Public Opening 7–11 pm Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera will open at its third touring venue at...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
Gwangju Biennale 7 Apr 20237 April–9 July 2023 Dayanita Singh has been announced among the first participating artists chosen for the 14th Gwangju Biennale, soft and weak like water....Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Dancing with my Camera at Villa Stuck, Munich 20 Oct 202220 October 2022–19 March 2023 Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera is now open at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich – the second touring venue of...Read more -
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Sea of Files at Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg 15 Oct 202215 October 2022–22 January 2023 The photographer Dayanita Singh is the 2022 Hasselblad Award recipient. The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Book Building – Performing the Book at Kunsthaus Göttingen, Germany 25 Jun 202218 June–25 September 2022 Under the title printing futures, Kunsthaus Göttingen presents ten international artists as a partner project of documenta fifteen, who deal with...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
Book Signing and Lecture at Gropius Bau, Berlin 25 Jun 2022Lecture by Kajri Jain and Book Signing with Dayanita Singh Gropius Bau, Cinema (Lower Ground Floor) | Saturday 25 June, 2022 Lecture 3pm-4pm CEST, Book...Read more -
Anna Barriball & Dayanita Singh
Group Exhibition at 601 Artspace, New York 11 Jun 2022Slippage Until 31 August 2022 Borrowing from the fields of literature, psychology, and architecture, Slippage addresses ideas about indecision, privacy, home, and other states of...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Dancing with my Camera at Gropius Bau, Berlin 18 Mar 202218 March–7 August 2022 Opening Day | 17 March 13.00–22:00 The Gropius Bau is pleased to present Dancing with my Camera, the first major survey...Read more -
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Hasselblad Award 2022 8 Mar 2022Congratulations to Dayanita Singh who has been awarded the 2022 Hasselblad Award. Dayanita Singh lives in New Delhi and is the first laureate from South...Read more
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Words and Images
Online Viewing Room 25 Jan 202225 January–27 February 2022 To mark Shilpa Gupta’s links to language and poetry, exemplified by her large-scale sound installation For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Artist Talk at Minneapolis Institute of Art, Online 9 Dec 2021Virtual Arnold Newman Lecture on Photography & New Media: Dayanita Singh Thursday 9 December, 2021 12pm – 1pm CST / 6pm–7pm GMT This is a...Read more -
Raqs Media Collection
Hungry for Time at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria 9 Oct 2021Group Exhibition Hungry For Time An Invitation To Epistemic Disobedience With Raqs Media Collective, In The Art Collections Of The Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Artist Talk at International Center of Photography, Online 29 Sep 2021Wednesday 29 September 2021, 1–2pm EST / 6–7pm BST For the first Fall 2021 ICP Talks, Dayanita Singh will discuss the place of editions within...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
Book Release at Portrait of a House, Conversations with BV Doshi 26 Aug 2021Portrait of a House, Conversations with BV Doshi by Dayanita Singh. Hardcover, 1st Edition, 2021. English, 152 pages. Released to coincide with the 94th birthday...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
Artist Talk at MoMA, Online 29 Jun 2021Tuesday 29 June, 9.30–EST / 14.30–15.30 BST MoMA post Presents: Photographer Dayanita Singh in Conversation with Sean Anderson. The ongoing COVID crisis in India has...Read more -
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Artist Talk at SF MoMA, Online 3 Jun 2021Thursday 3 June, 6pm (PDT) SF MoMA, Virtual Event Dayanita Singh on Life, Photography, and Dreams of 'Portable Museums' Dayanita Singh is joined in conversation...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
17 May - 29 Jun 2024 Golden SquareFrith Street Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Dayanita Singh. Over the last 40 years Singh has created pioneering works that cross genres, explore the...Read more -
Gallery Summer Show
Portrait 7 Jul - 11 Aug 2023 Golden SquareFrith Street Gallery presents Portrait, an exhibition of works by gallery artists considering the contemporary portrait through a range of perspectives and mediums. From sensitive images of loved ones to...Read more -
Summer Viewing
7 Jul - 7 Aug 2020 Golden SquareWe are delighted to announce that after a period of Covid-induced closure, the gallery reopens to the public on Tuesday 7 July. Visit us at Golden Square for a summer...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
20 Sep - 9 Nov 2019 Golden SquareHer recent works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from Singh's...Read more -
Summer Breeze 6 Jul - 11 Aug 2017 Soho Square, Golden SquareThe works at Golden Square reveal how the notion of body is imbued with multiple meanings, including recurring bodies of artwork, or bodies of human subjects themselves. An analyst, an...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
Museum of Shedding 18 Nov 2016 - 13 Jan 2017 Golden SquareFor Dayanita Singh photography is simply a starting point rather than an end in itself. Her work constantly pushes the boundaries of the form, examining how we might exhibit and...Read more -
Silver
17 Oct - 17 Dec 2014 Soho SquareSince opening, Frith Street Gallery has emerged as one of the art world’s most interesting forces, instrumental in developing the careers of internationally renowned figures as well as supporting those...Read more -
Dayanita Singh
File Museum 22 Nov 2012 - 26 Jan 2013 Golden SquareThis show features a single structure composed of 140 photographs. The structure may be presented in a number of different configurations according to its situation and is, in many ways,...Read more -
After the Volcano: A Summer Show of Gallery Artists 3 Jul - 14 Aug 2010 Golden SquareAfter the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists features work by 14 gallery artists: Massimo Bartolini, John Riddy, Anna Barriball, Dayanita Singh, Dorothy Cross, Bridget Smith, Tacita Dean, Juan...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
Dream Villa 7 Nov - 20 Dec 2008 Golden SquareKnown for her captivating photographs of the less obvious side of Indian society Dayanita Singh’s images range from the life of a Delhi eunuch to portraits of upper middle class...Read more -
Summer Show
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Chairs 1 Jun - 4 Aug 2005 Soho SquareHere she began to photograph the Museum’s collection and was drawn mainly to chairs – making studies of these objects as though they were the people she would have photographed...Read more -
Summer Show
6 Jul - 9 Sep 2004 Soho SquareTacita Dean, Dayanita Singh, Callum Innes, Giuseppe PenoneRead more -
Summer Show
27 Jun - 8 Aug 2002 Soho SquareFiona Banner, Dorothy Cross, Tacita Dean, Bernard Frize, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Cornelia Parker, John Riddy, Dayanita Singh, Bridget Smith and Annelies StrbaRead more -
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Empty Spaces 20 Sep - 9 Nov 2001 Soho SquareHer recent exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham showed the interior world of the Anandamayi Ashram, India’s only ashram for girls on the banks of the Ganges in Benares. In October...Read more
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Dayanita Singh
Sea of Files Dayanita Singh, 2022Hardback / Clothbound, 156 pagesRead more
Publisher: Co-published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen and the Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, 2022
ISBN: 978-3-96999-154-1
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Book Building 2022Hardback, 136 pagesRead more
Publisher: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2022
ISBN: 978-3-95829-908-5
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Dancing with my Camera 2022Paperback, 248 pagesRead more
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2022
ISBN: 978-7757-5175-9
Dimensions: 24 x 18 cm