Ayesha Singh (born in New Delhi, India), completed her MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (2013.) Through an interdisciplinary practice that lays emphasis on movement and displacement; Singh questions social hierarchies, political agendas and subconscious value systems placed on ornamentation, design and material in architectural pastiches that construct our cities and homes.
Singh has exhibited solo shows and projects at Little Haiti (public project) with support from BFI Miami and Oolite Arts(2020); Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India(2019); The Gujral Foundation, New Delhi, India(2017); Mumbai Art Room, India(2017); and Acre Projects, Chicago, USA(2017). Singh has participated in several group shows internationally including recently at Bikaner House with Nature Morte, New Delhi, India(2020); Inaugural Edition of the Sculpture Park at CEPT University, Gujrat, India(2019); The Sculpture Park Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK(2017); Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India (2017); Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, USA(2017); Casa de Dona Gisele, Curitiba, Brazil(2015); and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK(2014).
Singh has been recently awarded the “Emerging Artist Award” from India Today in 2020, and was named under the “Forbes India 30under30 Special Mentions” list in 2019. She has won the “Ellies Creator Award” from the Art Centre/South Florida, USA; the “Civil Society Institute Fellowship” at Vermont Studio Centre, USA; and the “Science & Culture Initiative Grant” from the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. Her work has been published in Art Review, Hyperallergic, Architectural Digest, Art India Magazine, Domus, Stir, Cosmopolitan, Elle India, Elle Décor and Femina magazine, to name a few.