Dayanita Singh
Born 1961, New Delhi, India
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 1987-88 Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography, New York
1980-86 Visual Communication from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“House of Love”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
"Adventures of a Photographer"- Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
”Dayanita Singh”- Museum of Art, Bogota
“House of Love”- Peabody Museum, Boston
2010
”Dream Villa”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
”Retrospective”- Mapfre Foundation, Madrid
“Dayanita Singh”- Huis Marseille Museum, Amsterdam
2009
”Blue Book”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
”Blue Book”- Gallery Mirchandani, Steinruecke, Mumbai
2008
”Ladies of Calcutta”- Bose Pacia Gallery, Calcutta
”Sent a Letter”- Satram Das Jewelers, Calcutta
”Sent a Letter”- Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
”Sent a Letter”- National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
”Sent a Letter”- Hermes traveling show, New York, Berlin
“Go Away Closer”- Hermes traveling show, New York, Berlin
”Dream Villa”- Frith Street Gallery, London
”Let You Go”- Nature Morte, Berlin
2007
”Go Away Closer”- Kriti Gallery, Banaras
”Go Away Closer”- Gallery Mirchandani, Steinruecke, Mumbai
”Beds and Chairs”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
”Go Away Closer”- Rencontres-arles, Arles
2006
”Beds and Chairs”- Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome
”Go Away Closer”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005
”Chairs”- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
”Chairs”- Frith Street Gallery, London
”Chairs”- Studio Guenzani, Milan
2004
”Privacy”- Rencontres-arles, Arles
2003
“Privacy”- National Gallery In Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
”Myself Mona Ahmed”- Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin
”Image/Text”- Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
2002
”I am as I am & Myself Mona Ahmed”- Scalo Gallery, Zurich
”Parsees at Home”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
”Bombay to Goa”- Kalaghoda Festival, Mumbai
”Bombay to Goa”- Art House India, Goa
2001
”Empty Spaces”- Frith Street Gallery, London
2000
”Demello Vado”- Saligao Institute, Goa
”I am as I am”- Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
”Dayanita Singh”- Gallery Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
”Dayanita Singh”-Tempo Festival, Stockholm
1999
”Mona Darling”- Venezia Immagine, Venice
”Family Portraits”- Studio Guenzani, Milan
1998
”Family Portraits”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
1997
”Images from the 90s”- Scalo Gallery, Zurich
Group Exhibitions
2012
"10th parallel north. Contemporary Photography from India and South America"- Ex Ospedale Sant Agostino, Modena
2011
"Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India"- Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
"Indian Highway IV"- Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France
“Indian Highway V”- MAXXI Museum, Rome
“Illumination”- Venice Biennale, Venice
“Paris Delhi Bombay”- Pompidou Centre, Paris
“Face Contact”- Photo Espania, Madrid
“Contact”- Museum of Contemporary art, Toronto
2010
“After the Volcano”- Frith Street Gallery, London
“Black & White”- Gallery Mirchandani, Steinruecke, Mumbai
Today Museum, Beijing
2009
“Detour”- Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai
“India 3 New Delhi, Republic of Illusions”- Gallery Krinzinger, Wein
2008
”Fault Lines”- Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
”Blue Series”- Manifesta 7, Bolzano
”Go Away Closer”- Gwangju Biennale
”Indian Highway”- Serpentine Gallery, London
2007
”Horn Please”- Kunst Museum, Berne
“Go Away Closer/ Sent a Letter”- Rencontres D Arles Photographic festival
2007
”Private/Corporate”- Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin
Aparanta, Goa
2006
”Sub-Contingent”- Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
”The Eighth Square”- Ludwig Museum, Cologne
”Cities in Transition”- Travelling Public Exhibition, New York, Boston, Hartford
2005
”Presence”- Sepia International, New York
”Edge of Desire”- Asia Society, New York
2004
”Ten Commandments”- Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
”Edge of Desire”- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
“Privacy”- Rencontres D Arles Photographic Festival
2003
”Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit”- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
”The Family”- Windsor Gallery, Florida
2002
”Red Light”- Australian Center for Photography, Sydney
”Kapital und Karma”- Aktuelle Positionen indischer Kunst, Kunsthalle
”Bollywood”- Das indische Kino und die Schweiz, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
”Banaras: The Luminous City”- Asia Society, New York
”Photo Sphere”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2000
”Century City”- Tate Modern, London
1999
”Another Girl, Another Planet”- Greenberg Gallery, New York
”Inferno and Paradiso”- BildMuseet Umea, Sweden
”Worlds of Work Images of the South”- Musée d'ethnographie, Geneva
1998
”Another India”- Crealdé School of Art, Orlando
”La Filature”- Mulhouse, France
1997
”India - A Contemporary View”- Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco
”India - A Celebration of Independence 1947-1997”- Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
”Out of India, Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora”- Queens Museum of Art, New York
1995
“So Many Worlds”- Photographs from DU Magazine, Holderbank
Awards / Reviews
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge 2008
Prince Claus Award, Netherlands 2008
Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge 2008
Andreas Frank Foundation Grant, Switzerland 1997
Public Collections
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Books
Dayanita Singh: House of Love, Radius books & Peabody Museum Press 2011
Dayanita Singh: Penguin Studio & Fundacao, Mafpre 2010
Dayanita Singh: Dream Villa, Steidl, Germany 2010
Dayanita Singh: Blue Book, Steidl, Germany 2009
Dayanita Singh: Sent a Letter, Steidl, Germany 2008
Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer, Steidl, Germany 2007
Dayanita Singh: Chair, Steidl, Germany 2005
Dayanita Singh: Privacy, Steidl, Germany 2003
Dayanita Singh: Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Verlag, Zurich/New York 2001
Dayanita Singh: Zakir Hussain. Himalayan books, New Delhi 1986