Ayesha Singh New Delhi, India, b.1990
Ayesha Singh (b. 1990, New Delhi, India) is an artist whose practice investigates built architecture as a site where power, politics, identity, and memory intersect. She considers architectural spaces as embedded within nation-building, migration, and displacement, while also functioning as loci of aspiration, desire, and belief. Through research-driven, participatory interventions, Singh unpacks processes of alteration and erasure enacted through construction, restoration, and destruction. Her practice spans sculpture, video, participatory performance, kinetic works, scaffold-based public installations, sculptural line drawings, and graphite on paper.
Singh received her MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has exhibited internationally at institutions and major platforms including the Singapore Biennale (2025), Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney (2024), NMACC, Mumbai (2024), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2023), The Wolfsonian, Miami (2023), Van Gogh House, London (2022–2023), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2021), Palazzo Madama, Turin (2021), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017), and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2017).
Her work is held in public collections including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Burger Collection, Hong Kong, MAP Bengaluru, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and The Partition Museum, New Delhi. Awards and residencies include the Lui Shimming Art Foundation Grant (2024), Cross-Hatchings Residency (PICA & Khoj, 2023), Van Gogh House Residency (2022), and Emerging Artist of the Year, India Today (2020). Nature Morte has presented two solo exhibitions of her works—Within Contradiction (2021) and Monumental Turns (2023)—with a third scheduled for 2026.
She currently lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Selected Artworks
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Subterranean Inversion: Structures of Forgetting, Mayla Bagh Jhalra (Stepwell), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN (supported by the Public Arts Trust India and RMZ Foundation)
Skewed Histories I and Site Lines, India Art Fair Facade, solo project, New Delhi, IN
2023
Monumental Turns, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2022
Continuous Coexistences II, inaugural permanent public commission, Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Fragments of Anticipated Nostalgia, text by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Dimensions Variable, Miami, USA
2021
Within Contradiction, text by Vidisha Aggarwal, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2019
It was Never Concrete, curated by Anushka Rajendan, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2017
Ghost Lines, curated by Reha Sodhi, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India
Stone, Paper, Pillar, solo show, The Gujral Foundation, New Delhi, India
2016
As You Can See, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2023
Ingredients of Encounters, performance gathering with Jyothidas K.V. at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India
Ingredients of Encounters, residency project with Jyothidas K.V., Van Gogh House London, UK
2022
Provisional Obstruction (Little Haiti II), in collaboration with Misael Soto, Dimensions Variable, Miami, USA
Ingredients of Encounters: Recipes of Reciprocations, residency project with Jyothidas K.V.,Van Gogh House London, UK
inversion incision immateriality, in collaboration with Abhimanyu Dalal, supported by Shrine Empire and Space Studio Baroda, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2021
Provisional Obstruction (Miami Beach), in collaboration with misael soto, The Catalina, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Capital Formation/No Exit Nation, in collaboration with Jyothidas K.V., Dimensions Variable, Miami, USA
2019
Provisional Obstruction (Little Haiti), in collaboration with Misael Soto, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, USA
Capital Formation/No Exit Nation, performance and ephemera in collaboration with Jyothidas K.V., Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2017
Provisional Obstruction (Pilsen), in collaboration with Misael Soto, Acre Projects, Chicago, USA
Group Exhibitions
2025
Pure Intention, curated by Duncan Bass, Hsu Fang-Tze, Ong Puay Khim, and Selene Yap, Singapore Biennale, Singapore. Supported by Tanoto Art Foundation.
2024
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, Australia
Splinter Puncture Silver Spall, curated by Phalguni Guliani, Tri Art and Culture, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
Bellyache, curated by Shristi Sainani, Conflictorium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN
What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago, curated by Shelly Bahl, South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL, USA
Liminal Gaps, solo project, Curated by Mafalda Millies Kahane, Roya Sachs and Elizabeth Edelman Sachs( TRIADIC), NMACC, Mumbai, IN
Network Cultures, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Parallel Cities, organized by Instituto Italiano di Cultura, New Delhi, IN
Parallel Cities II, curated by Andrea Anastasio, Nature Morte, Mumbai, IN
2023
Bridge Deconstruction, organized by misael soto, The Wolfsonian, Miami, USA
South Asian Art, Islamic Art and Antiquities, curated by Dr. Ainsley M. Cameron, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, curated by Dhwani Gudka, The Eight Foundation, Noida, India
2022
Amdavad Art - é - Summit, Hutheesingh Art Gallery via Petal Foundation, Gujarat, India
Ornament and Crime, curated by Noor Bhangu, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Infinite Reminders, curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
Artist As Translator, Karachi Biennale, as a part of a global work organized by Second Practice, Pakistan
Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter, Ornamenting Relation, curated by Noor Bhangu, The
Blackwood, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
the problem is, a human is only this big, text by Gabriel Santamarina (MX), curated by Yeah
Totally Ltd, digital exhibition on, first at Way Out East Gallery, University East London, UK
TAKE editions, TAKE On Art, IAF, New Delhi, India
Manicured Techniques, Nature Morte, curated by Peter Nagy, New Delhi, India
2021
Disruptive Confluences, Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, curated by Myna
Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Turin, Italy
Maximum Minimum, Artissima via Nature Morte, Turin, Italy
Provisional Obstruction- Postcard on Collaboration, invitation by Eternal Networks, Terrain
Biennale, Chicago, USA
Capital Formation/No Exit Nation, Dimensions Variable, Miami, USA
Hungry for Time. An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective, in the Art
Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Markers of Time & Space, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, Delhi, India
DCAW- Nature Morte, Bikaner House, Delhi, India
Spatial Dialogues, exhibition text by Sarovar Zaidi, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2020
All Is Not Lost, Sakshi Gallery, curated by Saloni Doshi, Mumbai, India
Four Flags, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
Partition, Migration, Identity and Memory, Fundraiser for the realisation and expansion of the
Partition Museum, organised by Art Alive Gallery, Amritsar, Punjab, India
In-Touch Edition 2, Nature Morte, website exhibition on www.artintouch.in
To Balm and Cajole, Nature Morte, website exhibition on www.artintouch.in
The Idea of the Acrobat, Bikaner House, hosted by Nature Morte, curated by Peter Nagy, New Delhi, India
India Art Fair, presented by Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2019
Inaugural Edition of the Sculpture Park at CEPT University in collaboration with the Gujral
Foundation, curated by Reha Sodhi, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India
Slow, presented by Shrine Empire, curated by Anushka Rajendran, IAF, New Delhi, India
The Future is Here: Art and Technology, Bajaj Gallery, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala,
Mumbai, India
2018
Edition Two, The Sculpture Park Jaipur, curated by Peter Nagy, Rajasthan, India (December 2018-
July 2020)
Encounter Asia – Multi-vision, Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Museum, curated by
Huang Du and Yu Ke, supported by China National Arts Fund, Chongqing, China
Post Show, curated by Misael Soto, Target (State Street, Chicago), USA
Capital Formation, organized by Cat Bluemke, Comfort Station, Chicago, USA
2017
Occasional Geometries, curated by Rana Begum, supported by The Arts Council, Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, UK
Windows, curated by Amrita and Priya Jhaveri, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India
New Blood, curated by Maria Luisa Conlon, Frederikke Christensen, Misael Soto and Lindsey
Thornton, Links Hall, Chicago, USA
Rise from the Rubble: Fundraiser for Mexico and Puerto Rico, organized by Mev Luna, Emilio
Rojas and Nicolás Rodríguez Melo, Chicago Artist Coalition, USA
Rumbles in the Playpen, curated by Tarini Sethi, India International Center, New Delhi, India
The India Story, Space at 9/2, curated by Anahita Kayan, Kolkata, India
Not in My Name, EXPO Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Sadie Woods,
Chicago, USA
Shifting the Center, curated by Adia Sykes and Lindsay Allison Hutchens, Sullivan Galleries,
Chicago, USA
The Biography of a Thing, curated by Lan Tuazon, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Trace, curated by Sarojini Lewis, School of Arts and Aesthetics Gallery, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India
Cit·i·zen, curated by Pia Singh, School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL, USA
2016
India Art Fair, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, Exhibit 320’s booth, New Delhi, India
As You Can See, solo project, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
2015
Delhi Photo Festival, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi, India
Twenty Twenty, curated by Sakhshi Mahajan, The Portret Project, New Delhi, India
Home, curated by Paola de Ramos, Casa de Dona Gisele, Curitiba, Brazil, SA
Grounded, Curated by Kanika Anand, Garden of the Five Senses, New Delhi, India
2014
Make/Do, curated by Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, GallerySke, New Delhi, India
Image|Object|Image: New Modes of Representation, ‘Notes’ publications, University of
Cambridge, UK
Enter13, curated by Irini Papadimitriou, Waterman’s Gallery, London, UK
2013
Dovetail, India-UK Creatives Collective, The Hidden Gallery, New Delhi, India
Slade Degree Show, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
Group Show, The Central Gallery, Reading University, Reading, UK