Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh
Singh at National Museum, New Delhi, 2014
Born (1961-03-18) 18 March 1961 (age 63)[1]
New Delhi, India
Alma materNational Institute of Design
Known for
  • Artist
  • photographer
Notable work
  • Museum Bhavan (2013)
  • Myself Mona Ahmed (2001)
StyleDocumentary, Portrait
Awards
Websitedayanitasingh.net

Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961)[1] is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books.

Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums allowing her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from her interest in the archive, the "Museums" as she calls them, present her photographs as interconnected bodies of work that are full of both poetic and narrative possibilities.

Publishing is also a significant part of Singh's practice. She has created multiple "book-objects" – works that are concurrently books, art objects, exhibitions, and catalogues – often with the publisher Steidl. Museum Bhavan has been shown at the Hayward Gallery, London (2013), the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2014), the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2014) and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2016).

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference guard14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Dayanita Singh". Prince Claus Fund. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  3. ^ Greenberger, Alex (9 March 2022). "Dayanita Singh Wins Hasselblad Foundation's $206,500 Photography Prize". Retrieved 10 March 2022.