Arpita Singh

Painter | India

Born in 1937

« Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner.. »

Born in Bangladesh, Singh is a figurative modernist, known for her surrealist creations. She attended school of Art, Delhi Polytechnic in Delhi 1954-1959. Later, she worked for Indian Government’ Cottage Industries Restoration; during which she came across many folk artists. In 1970’s her work is dominated by the Black-white abstracts. In 1980’s she painted Bengali folk paintings and soon her practise drastically incorporated oil on canvas as medium. She conveys her subjects enriched with reductionism and rhythm.

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Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner.

Painter | India

Born in 1937

Arpita Singh
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Born in Bangladesh, Singh is a figurative modernist, known for her surrealist creations. She attended school of Art, Delhi Polytechnic in Delhi 1954-1959. Later, she worked for Indian Government’ Cottage Industries Restoration; during which she came across many folk artists. In 1970’s her work is dominated by the Black-white abstracts. In 1980’s she painted Bengali folk paintings and soon her practise drastically incorporated oil on canvas as medium. She conveys her subjects enriched with reductionism and rhythm.

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Prizes
  • All-India Drawing Exhibition in Chandigarh 1981-82
  • Algeria Biennale 1987
  • Parishad Samman from the Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi 1991
Solo Exhibitions
  • Kunika Chemould Gallery, New Delhi
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • Royal Academy of Arts, Geneva
  • the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
  • Kalpana: Figurative Art in India, presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London
  • Havana Biennale
  • the Indo-Greek Cultural Exhibition in Greece
  • Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art at Grosvenor Gallery, London
  • The Root of Everything at Gallery Mementos, Bangalore
  • Modern and Contemporary Indian Art at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Publications
  • Memory Jars, New Paintings and Watercolors, exh.cat., Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, New York (2003), New York, Bose Pacia Modern,
  • Dalmia Y., “Arpita Singh : of mother goddesses and women”, in Sinha G. (ed.), Expressions & Evocations : Contemporary Women Artists of India, Bombay, Marga Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts

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