Dayanita Singh

Photography
January 6 - February 9, 2008
Kolkata

Education
1987-88 Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, International Center of Photography, New York
1980-86 Visual Communication, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

Exhibitions

2007
"Go Away Closer", Kriti Gallery, Banaras (solo)
"Go Away Closer", Gallerie Steinruecke + Mirchandani, Bombay (solo)
"Beds and Chairs", Gallery Chemould, Bombay (solo)
"Private/Corporate", Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin


2006
"Beds and Chairs", Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome (solo)
"Go Away Closer", Nature Morte, New Delhi (solo)
"Sub-Contingent", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
"The Eighth Square", Ludwig Museum, Cologne
"Cities in Transition", NYC, Boston Hartford

2005
"Chairs", Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (solo)
"Chairs", Frith Street Gallery, London (solo)
"Chairs", Studio Guenzani, Milan (solo)
"Presence", Sepia International, New York
"Edge of Desire", Asia Society, New York

2004
"Privacy", Rencontres-Arles, Arles (solo)
"Ten Commandments", Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
"Edge of Desire", Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

2003
"Dayanita Singh: Privacy", National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (solo)
"Myself Mona Ahmed", Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin (solo)
"Dayanita Singh: Image/Text (Photographs 1989-2002)", Department of Art and Aesthetics, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi (solo)
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
"The Family", Windsor Gallery, Florida

2001
"Empty Spaces", Frith Street Gallery, London (solo)

2002
"Red Light", Australian Center for Photography, Sydney
"Kapital und Karma, Aktuelle Positionen indischer Kunst", Kunsthalle, Wien
"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
"Demello Vado", Saligao Institute, Goa (solo)
"I am as I am", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (solo)
"Dayanita Singh", Gallery Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (solo)
"Dayanita Singh", Tempo Festival, Stockholm (solo)
"Century City", Tate Modern, London

1999
"Mona Darling", Venezia imagine, Venice (solo)
"Family Portraits", Studio Guenzani, Milan (solo)
"Another Girl, Another Planet", Greenberg Gallery, New York
"Inferno and Paradiso", BildMuseet Umeå, Sweden
"Worlds of Work – Images of the south", Musée d'ethnographie, Geneva


1998
"Family Portraits", Nature Morte, New Delhi (solo)
"Another India", Crealdé School of Art, Orlando, Florida
"La Filature", Mulhouse, France


1997
"Images from the 90s", Scalo Galerie, Zurich (solo)
"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, Aargau, Switzerland