Arpita Singh

(b.1937, West Bengal, lives in New Delhi)

Arpita Singh obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic. In the five decades of her career as an artist, Arpita Singh’s language has acquired a distinctive edge. She playfully fuses reality and fantasy to create a unique idiom that is at once child-like, naïve, and yet highly sophisticated in its basic idea, emotional quotient and potent structure.

Since her first solo exhibition in 1972 at Kunika Chemould Gallery, New Delhi, Singh’s work has been featured regularly in shows of Indian art held in the country and internationally. Through the 1980s, Singh along with artists Nilima Sheikh, Nalini Malani and Madhvi Parekh held a series of self-organized exhibitions, working with watercolours, and foregrounding gender as an operative category in their art practice.

Apart from solo exhibitions at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Bose Pacia, New York, D C Moore Gallery, New York, Art Heritage, New Delhi and Chemould Gallery, Bombay, Singh has been part of prestigious international exhibitions as well. These include shows at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1982; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1986; Asia Society, New York, 1996; among others. She has also participated in the 3rd and 4th Triennials in New Delhi; the 1987 Havana Biennale and 1987 Algeria Biennale and the Indo-Greek Cultural Exhibition in Greece in 1984. More recently, her works have been exhibited at Peabody Essex Museum, Massacusetts, 2013; Cleveland Institute of Art, 2013; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, 2013; Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, 2008-09; Brandies University, Boston, 2007; Kunstsmuseum Bern, 2007;  Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2012 and and Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993.