10 Facts About Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh was born on 18 March 1961 and is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book.

Dayanita Singh studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and later Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Dayanita Singh started her career in photojournalism and retired in the late 1990s.

Dream Villa was produced during her Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography given annually by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; Dayanita Singh was its second recipient in 2008.

The "book-object" medium has allowed Dayanita Singh to explore her interest in the poetic and narrative possibility of sequence and re-sequence, allowing her to create photographic patterns while simultaneously disrupting them.

Dayanita Singh has created and displayed a series of mobile museums, giving her the space to constantly sequence, edit, and archive her images.

Each holds 70 to 140 photographs that Dayanita Singh rearranges for each show so that only a portion of the photos or parts of each images are visible at any given time, capitalizing on the interconnected and fluid capacity of her work while allowing ample opportunity for evolving narratives and interpretations.

Dayanita Singh's works have been presented at the German pavilion in the Venice Biennale.

In 2014, at the National Museum, New Delhi, Dayanita Singh built the Book Museum using her publications File Room and Privacy as well as her mother's book, Nony Dayanita Singh: The Archivist.

Dayanita Singh served as a Jury Member for the Serendipity Arles Grant 2020.