Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh

For her, to take photos to make a book.
Books are portable museums.


Dayanita Singh doesn't think of making books as simply a medium for printing photos. I sympathize with her way of approaching books. Talking about Dayanita Singh, many of her previous publications have been produced in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, and her latest work is `Book Objects.' This work should serve as both an exhibition and a catalogue.

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Dayanita Singh（ダヤニータ・シン）
1961年、ニューデリー（インド）生まれ。アーメダバードの国立デザイン大学、ニューヨークの国際写真センター（ICP）にてドキュメンタリー写真を学ぶ。インドが抱える社会問題、とりわけセックスワーカーや児童労働、貧困などを追い続け、欧米の雑誌に掲載された。「ロンドン･タイムズ」でオールド・デリーを13年にわたって撮り続け、2001年に 『マイセルフ・モナ・アハメド』として出版。ヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ（2011年、2013年）やシドニー・ビエンナーレ（2016年）など国際展に招聘されること多数。京都国立近代美術館と東京国立近代美術館の「映画をめぐる美術－マルセル･ブロータースから始まる」展（2013～2014年）に出品。2017年には「ダヤニータ・シン インドの大きな家の美術館」展を東京都写真美術館で開催。

Born 1961 in New Delhi, India. Studied documentary photography at the National College of Design in Ahmedabad and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. His work on social issues facing India, particularly sex workers, child labor, and poverty, has been published in magazines in the U.S. and Europe. He photographed Old Delhi for the London Times for 13 years, and published his work as “My Self Mona Ahmed” in 2001. He has been invited to participate in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2011, 2013) and the Sydney Biennale (2016). She was included in the exhibitions “Art on Film: Starting with Marcel Brotas” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2013-2014); in 2017, her exhibition “Dayanita Singh: India's Big House Museum” was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Exhibitions

  • 2019 Museum of Chance at Surrounds: 11 Installations at Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2019 Dayanita Singh at Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London
  • 2019 In the Company of Artists at Hostetter Gallery, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, USA
  • 2018 Pop-Up Book Shop at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, USA
  • 2018 Time Measures and Pothi Khana at the 57th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
  • 2017 Museum Bhavan at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2016 Suitcase Museum and Kitchen Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the 20th Biennale of Sydney
  • 2016 Museum of Chance Book Object, a solo project at the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
  • 2016 Museum of Chance Book Object, a solo exhibition at the Hawa Mahal, Jaipur
  • 2015-16 Conversation Chambers Museum Bhavan, a solo exhibition at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
  • 2014 Go Away Closer a solo exhibition at Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
  • 2014 Dayanita Singh a solo exhibition at the Art Institute, Chicago
  • 2013 Go Away Closer a solo exhibition at The Hayward Gallery
  • 2013 Venice Biennale a group exhibition in the German Pavilion, Venice
  • 2012 File Museum a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
  • 2012 Monuments of Knowledge, a solo exhibition at King’s India Institute, KCL, London
  • 2012 a solo exhibition at Nature Morte, New Delhi
  • 2011 a group exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale
  • 2010 a touring solo exhibition at Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam; Mapfre Foundation, Madrid
  • 2009 Indian Highway, a touring group exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London; Astrup Museum, Oslo
  • 2008 Dream Villa, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
  • 2005 Chairs, a solo exhibition at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
  • 2003 Privacy, a solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2003 Homelessness, a group exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich