About

1980 – 1989
1990 – 1999
2000 – 2009

2022 A brush with…Dayanita Singh, The Art Newspaper Podcast, February
2021 Dayanita Singh, Magic Hour Podcast, May
2020 Dayanita Singh, The Nearest Truth Podcast, March
2019 The Way I See It: The Director’s Choice, BBC Radio 4, November
2017 Imagining the New Truth, BBC Radio 4, January

2024 Night Fever, Shanay Javeri, Cornerhouse, London, UK
2023 Dayanita Singh: A aventura de uma fotografa, Fundação Serralves, Porto
2023 icônes Pinault Collection, Pinault Collection, Paris
2023 17 X Artists Tribute to Letitzia Battaglia, Lang Art
2023 Soft and Weak like Water 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale
2023 Life is Art Art Is Live, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2022 Museum of Tanpura, Steidl
2022 Bawa Chairs, Steidl
2022 Pothi Khana, Steidl
2022 Museum of Dance. Mother Loves to Dance, Steidl
2022 Sea of Files, Steidl
2022 Let’s See, Steidl
2022 Dancing with my Camera, Hatje Cantz
2022 Kishori Tai, Spontaneous Books
2022 Book Building, Steidl
2021 Portrait of a House, Conversations with BV Doshi, Offset Projects
2021 Being wo[hu]man Le grandi fotografe raccontatno il mondo / The World through the eyes of the great women photographers, SilvannaEditoriale
2021 The White Review, Prestel
2020 Femmes photographes, Photo Poche & Actes Sud
2019 Zakir Hussain Maquette, Steidl
2019 Body Building, Ishara Art Foundation
2019 The Bigger Picture: Women Who Changed the Art World, Tate Publishing, London
2018 Facing India, Hatje Cantz
2018 Divine Bodies Sacred Imagery in Asian Art, Asian Art Museum San Francisco
2017 Museum Bhavan, Steidl
2017 The Photographic I: Other Pictures, Perimeter Books, Melbourne
2017 Le Spectre du Surrealisme, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2017 1001 Photographs you must see before you die, Cassell, London
2017 Artists’ Books The Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle & Colophon
2016 Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman, Prestel
2016 Masterworks of Industrial Photography, MAST Electa
2016 Museum of Machines, MAST Electa
2016 20th Biennale of Sydney The Future is Already Here – It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed, Sydney Biennale
2015 Museum of Chance, Steidl
2015 Fotographie: International Video, Mixed Media, Daimler Art Colleciton
2015 Precarious Fields, Kehrer Verlag
2015 Sleepless: The bed in history and contemporary art, Belvedere
2014 David Trigg, Eliza Williams, Jonathan Griffin, The Twenty-First Century Art Book, Phaidon, London
2014 Go Away Closer, Hayward Publishing
2014 Museum of Change, Steidl
2013 File Room, Steidl
2012 The Book of Books Documenta 13, Hatje Cantz
2011 Adventures of a Photographer, Shiseido Corporate Culture Department
2011 Paris-Delhi-Bombay…, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 Enrique Vila-Matas: Chet Baker pense a son art, Mercure de France
2010 House of Love, Peabody Museum Press
2010 Dream Villa, Steidl
2010 Dayanita Singh, T.F. Editores, S.L.C.
2009 Blue Book, Steidl
2009 Au Féminin Women Photographing Women 1849–2009, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
2009 Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London
2008 Sent a Letter, Steidl
2008 Exquisite Shadows, SAGE, Paris
2007 Go Away Closer, Steidl, Germany
2007 The Genius of Photography How Photography Has Changed Our Lives, Quadrille Publishing Limited
2006 The Eighth Square. Gender Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig
2005 Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, published in conjunction with the exhibition
2005 Chairs, Steidl, Germany
2004 Dayanita Singh: I am as I am, IKON
2003 Privacy, Steidl, Germany
2001 Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Verlag, Zurich, New York
1998 Kali For Women,
1986 Zakir Hussain, Himalayan books, New Delhi

2024 India Art Fair 2024 Announces Highlights, arts & collections, 12 January
2024 The best of photography at India Art Fair 2024, Hindustan Times, 6 February
2024 Dr Arshiya Manoor Lokhandwala, 15th edition of India Art Fair sends message that moment for art and design has arrived for India, The Week, 7 February
2024 Explore 24 unique artistic perspectives at Noida’s latest exhibition, Architect and Interiors India, 8 February
2024 Lee Carter, Mumbai Collector Sangita Jindal on Her Sprawling New Contemporary Art Center in Ancient Hampi, Artnet, 13 February
2024 Ranjana, Dave, “Parallel Cities” distils the complexity of urban experience, stir world, 21 February
2024 Nuriyah Johar, AD Small Spaces: This artist’s 800-square-foot Pune home is a charming repository of nostalgia, Architectural Digest, 1 March
2024 Alanksha Kamath, Restauranteur Samyukta Nair’s home is a tranquil oasis in the heart of London’s Mayfair, Architectural Digest, 14 March
2024 Listening now, The New Indian Express, 14 April
2024 London Gallery Weekend 2024: the best shows for photography fans, Art Newspaper, 29 May
2024 Everything to see at London Gallery Weekend 2024, Wallpaper*, 31 May
2024 Sale Berning Sawa, Grace Jones shakes her bones! Great moments in art-dark photography, The Guardian, 1 June
2024 June Book Bag; from a book od night photography to the latest installment of the Andy Warhol catalogue raisonné, Art Newspaper
2024 June 2024: 5 Exhibitions to See, Hundred Heroines, 5 June
2024 Light Finds a Way – Dayanita Singh, Arttaca, 27 June
2024 Weekly News Roundup: September 2024, ArtAsiaPacific, 6 June
2023 A Captivating Exhibit Opens At Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai, About Her, January
2023 10 Ways to Kickstart Your Year in the Artworld, ArtReview, 4 January
2023 Alasdair Foster, Dayanita Singh: Cabinets of Curiosity, Talking Pictures, 14 January
2023 Siddhartha Mitter, Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography, The New York Times, 19 January
2023 AD Staff, In photos: A rare glimpse into the private lift of BV Doshi, Architectural Digest, 27 January
2023 The 14th Gwangju Biennale announces final artist list, ArtReview, 7 February
2023 Sharanya, The Remains of the Day: Re-tracing Archival Art through Dayanita Singh and Ali Kazim, Wasafari, 21 February
2023 Vanessa Peterson, Interview: Ahead of a survey opening at MUDAM Luxembourg this month, Dayanita Singh, speaks to Vanessa Peterson about photography, mentors and liberation, Frieze, May
2023 Dayanita Singh, Dancing with my Camera, e-flux Announcements, 3 May
2023 Diya J Verma, 20 contemporary artists share their perspectives on time, Harper’s Bazaar, 7 June
2023 Basel’s Schaulager Takes Key Video and Film Installations ‘Out of the Box’ and Into Its Galleries, Artnews, 13 June
2023 Dayanita Singh’s Museum Bhavan, Outlook, 24 June
2023 Democratic and Accessible Museums: A Discussion With Dayanita Singh and Anjani Kumar Singh, Outlook, 25 June
2023 Abhik Bhattacharya, Can The Museum Space Be Democratised?, Outlook, 3 July
2023 Suryanandini Narain, Examining Various Facets of Photography in the South Asian Context, The Wire, 27 July
2023 Natalia Pikna, Singh’s unique vision on display in Dancing with my Camera, Luxembourg Times, 4 August
2023 Shreya Agrawal, ‘Photography is no longer male-dominated, especially among the younger generation’: Dayanita Singh, Indian Express, 19 August
2023 Zahra Amiruddin, Photographer Dayanita Singh opens up her incredible archives to the Bienal São Paulo, Vogue India, 14 September
2023 Marko Gluhaich, ‘Various Earths’: On the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Frieze, 15 September
2023 Chokita Paul, Chemould Prescott Road’s ongoing exhibit reinterprets personal memories, Indian Express, 16 November
2023 From Roe Ethridge’s Hazy Florals to Otto Steinert’s Experiments in Light: See What’s in Store at Leitz Photographica Auctions November Sale, Artnet, 18 November
2023 Immerse yourself into the world of 21 different perspectives at Delhi’s group exhibition, Architect and Interiors, 20 November
2023 Power 100 Dayanita Singh, Artreview, 2 December
2023 CheMoulding: Futuring – Part II opens in Mumbai, Artdaily, 3 December
2023 Chloe Stead, The Top Ten Shows in Europe in 2023, Frieze, 15 December
2022 Power 100, Art Review, December
2022 Vivek Menezes, The luminescence of Dayanita Singh – the first South Asian to win the Hasselblad award, the premier honour in the field of photography, GQ, December
2022 Sarah Hucal, Photographer Dayanita Singh wins 2022 Hasselblad Award, DW, October
2022 Tausif Noor, In the Studio: Dayanita Singh’s New Conception of Photography, Art in America, July
2022 Orhan Pamuk, “Images you can smell”–novelist Orhan Pamuk on Dayanita Singh’s mesmerising photos of India’s disintegrating archives, The Guardian, June
2022 Frances Arnold, Dayanita Singh’s “Dancing with My Camera”, Art Asia Pacific, June
2022 Hannah Abel-Hirsch, Dayanita Singh: “When I photographed with the Hasselblad, I’d call it my third breast”, The British Journal of Photography, April
2022 Duncan Ballantyne-Way, Dayanita Singh: “Photography was my ticket to freedom”, ExBerliner, April
2022 Rukminee Guha Thakurta, It’s Anything but B&W, Designyatra, March
2022 Ben Luke, A Brush With…, The Art Newspaper, March
2022 Alex Greenberger, Dayanita Singh Wins Hasselblad Foundation’s $206,500 Photography Prize, ARTnews, March
2022 Kristina Foster, Photographer Dayanita Singh: ‘I don’t like the way art gets frozen in a gallery’, Financial Times, March
2022 Daisy Woodward, Spring Has Sprung: Brilliant Things To Do in March, AnOther Magazine, March
2021 Interview: Dayanita Singh, The White Review, July
2021 Gauri Kelkar, Dayanita Singh gives compelling structure to architectural photos at Art Basel OVR, Architectural Digest, March
2021 Tim Adams, The big picture: jumping for joy in a girls’ ashram, The Guardian, January
2020 Skye Arundhati Thomas, Myself Mona Ahmed: Revisiting Dayanita Singh’s Landmark Photobook, Frieze, October
2019 Holland Cotter, MoMA Reboots with ‘Modernism Plus’, The New York Times, October
2019 Anna Brady and Kabir Jhala, Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend, The Art Newspaper, September
2019 Liz Jobey, Thinking outside the book, FT Magazine, September
2019 Fi Churchman, Dayanita Singh: Nothing is static’, ArtReview, September
2019 Sakshi Lakhotia, MoMA, New York: Dayanita Singh’s Museum of Chance finds a brand new home, Architectural Digest, May
2019 John Cornachio, MoMA exhibit looks back on twenty years of watershed installations, The Architect’s Newspaper, May
2019 Chanpreet Khunara, The Chennai Photo Biennale goes beyond just images – it focuses on our relationship with photography, Scroll.in, March
2019 Mimi Yiu, Building Subjects of Light: Tavares Strachan and Dayanita Singh, Storyboard, January
2019 Nicolas Linnert, Dayanita Singh, Callicoon Fine Arts, Artforum, January
2018 Diane Smyth, A hundred photographic heroines, British Journal of Photography, December
2018 Grant Johnson, Interview with Dayanita Singh, Artforum, November
2018 James Estrin, The Photo Book as Art Object, The New York Times, October
2018 Shanaz Siganporia, When a friendship cuts across class and generation, Vogue India, August
2018 Aveek Sen, Dayanita Singh, Aperture, Summer
2018 Bilal Qureshi, This Photographer Wants to Put A Museum in Your Pocket, National Public Radio, April
2017 Elizabeth Roberts, Beyond Boundaries, Black & White Photography, March
2017 Deborah Schultz, Dayanita Singh: Museum of Shedding, Art Monthly, February
2017 Carolina Mostert, Dayanita Singh: Museum of Shedding, This Is Tomorrow, January
2016 Cleo Roberts, Museum of Shedding, Dayanita Singh, ArtAsiaPacific, December
2016 Amandas Ong, Dayanita Singh: “If I Could Describe a Photograph Entirely in Words, Why Bother Making It?” Apollo Magazine, November
2016 Rachel Spence, The Drama of Dayanita Singh’s Art, FT Weekend, November
2016 S Prasannarajan, How The Book Has Become a Museum Piece – For Its Own Good, Open Magazine, February
2015 Somak Ghoshal, Dayanita Singh: At Home in her Meta-Museum, Open Magazine, December
2014 Chris Dercon, The Little Museum, Parkett Art, December
2014 Shanay Jhaveri, Time Travel, Parkett Art, December
2014 James Lingwood, At Rest, In Motion, Parkett Art, December
2014 Go Away Closer – Dayanita Singh at the MMK in Frankfurt, DB ArtMag, September
2014 Geoff Dyer, Now We Can See: Geoff Dyer on Dayanita Singh, Better Photography, August
2014 Naveena Vijayan, Music and Madness Frozen in Celluloid, The New Indian Express, July
2014 Elizabeth Mathew, Where images do the talking, The Hindu Business Line, July
2014 Saraswathy Nagarajan, Images of conversations, The Hindu, July
2014 Sudeep Sen, Mouldering Papers Are Us, Outlook, July
2014 Shougat Dasgupta, A panegyric to paper, Blink, July
2014 Georgina Maddox, Indian artists get ‘archive fever’, look to the past to find the future, Scroll.in, June
2014 Reema Gehi, Relative value: Life in a square frame, Mumbai Mirror, April
2014 Indrajit Hazra, Inside rooms with Dayanita where paper is made flesh, The Sunday Guardian, April
2014 S. Priyadershini, On a blank page, once again, The Hindu, April
2014 Reema Gehi, Relative value: Life in a square frame, The Mumbai Mirror, April
2014 Kingshuk Niyogy, Interview: Dayanita Singh, Time Out Delhi, April
2014 Amrita Dutta, Following the Paper Trail, The Indian Express, April
2014 Avantika Bhuyan, An elegy to paper, Business Standard, March
2013 Monisha Rajesh, The Worlds of Dayanita Singh, New York Times, October
2013 Mark Hudson, Dayanita Singh interview, The Telegraph, October
2013 Zebra Jumabhoy, ‘Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer”, Artforum, October
2013 Sue Steward, Inspired visions of Indian life, The Evening Standard, October
2013 Theresa Malone, My best shot – Dayanita Singh, The Guardian, October
2013 Francis Hodgson, Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer – review, The Financial Times, October
2013 WSJ Staff, Dayanita Singh, a Retrospective, The Wall Street Journal, October
2013 Sarah Kent, Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer, Hayward Gallery, The Art Desk, October
2013 Dayanita Singh. Go Away Closer, Wall Street Journal, August
2013 Milena Tomic, Dayanita Singh, Art in America, April
2013 Rachel Spence, Infinite Possibilities, The Financial Times, April
2012 Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark, Exhibitionist: The week’s art shows in pictures, The Guardian Guide, November
2012 Emilia Terracciano, Monuments of Knowledge, Modern Painters, July/August
2012 Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Shot Story, The Times of India – The Crest Edition, January
2011 Pick of the week, Hindustan Times, December
2011 Kumar K. G. Pramod, Picture Perfect, India Today, December
2011 Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, Prose as pictures, The Hindu, December
2011 Anindita Ghose, An insomniac’s guide to photography, livemint.com, December
2011 Janice Pariat, A Novel Short Story, Open Gallery, December
2011 Mark Feeney, Here, there, and everywhere, The Boston Globe, March
2010 Sunil Gupta, Dayanita Singh: A Ticket to Freedom, Deutsche Bank – Art Mag, September
2010 Sabeena Gadihoke, The ongoing life of images, The Calcutta Telegraph, August
2010 Susan Hapgood, Dayanita Singh, Art in America, June/July
2010 Aveek Sen, Night Watch – Tales of the Unexpected, The Calcutta Telegraph, March
2010 Bharati Chaturvedi, Feeling Blue, Business Standard, February
2009 Brian Dillon, Dayanita Singh: Dream Villa, Aperture, Summer
2009 Emilia Terracciano, Exhibition Review: Indian Highway, Art Monthly, February
2009 Skye Sherwin, Exhibition Review: Indian Highway, Art Review
2008 Soumitra Das, Only Class I am Familiar With, The Telegraph Calcutta, January
2007 Maria Louis, Myself, Dayanita Singh, Verve March
2007 Jane Rankin – Reid, the Ah-Ha Nudge, Tehelka, January
2007 Aveek Sen, A Distance of One’s Own – Dayanita Singh’s ‘Go Away Closer’, The Telegraph Calcutta, January
2007 S. Kalidas, Binary Frames, India Today, January
2006 Photography Explores Changing Cities in UTC public Arts Project – Cities in Transition, United Technologies, 18 September
2005 Sarah Kent, Dayanita Singh, Time Out London, July
2005 Joyce Cohen, Rearranging the furniture, Art New England, June-July
2005 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Presents Chairs, artdaily.com, April
2005 Jeffrey Gantz, Gender benders? ‘Cars at the MFA, ‘Chairs’ at the Gardner, The Boston Phoenix, April
2005 Marina Veronica, Dayanita Singh: Chairs, artsMEDIA, March-April
2005 Holland Cotter, Objects of Repose and Remembrance, The New York Times, March
2005 Rebecca Wilson, The imprint of the past, ArtReview, February
2005 Christine Temin, Gardner ‘Chairs’ for seeing, not sitting, The Boston Globe, February
2005 Alison Beard, Celebrating cherished chairs, Financial Times, February
2005 Joanne Silver, Gardner Stands Up for ‘Chairs’, Boston Herald, February
2003 Nancy Adajania, Poised at Thresholds, Art India, Vol. 8, Issue 1
2003 Peter Nagy, Dayanita Singh; The Expanded Inspiration, Visual Art. The India Habitat Center’s Art Journal, vol. III, March/April
2002 Geeta Doctor, Doing it her way, The Hindu, October
2002 Shohini Ghosh, The Sameness of the Queer, Biblio, vol. VII, No. 5/6, May/June
2001 Sally O’Reilly, Dayanita Singh, Time Out, October
2001 Oliver Bennett, Shades of Glory, The Independent, October
2001 Women’s work, Dayanita Singh’s exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Blueprint, April
2001 Terry Grimley, ‘Looking at Things in Black and White’, Metro (West Midlands)
2001 Emma Safe, ‘Take a Fresh Look’, Metro (West Midlands), April
2001 Illustrations, ‘The Independent: Review’, The Independent, March
2001 Alternative and Compelling New Angle on Benares, Leicester Mercury, April
2001 Sonia Faleiro, Demello Vado. Eternity in monochrome, India Today, January
1999 Ken Light, Witness to our times. Working lives of Documentary photographers, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1999 Shuma Raha, Shooting from the Heart, Telegraph, February
1998 Bandeep Singh, Portraits by a Lady, India Today, January
1998 Sabena Gadihoke, Three women and a camera, film by Sabena Gadihoke, Production: Doordarshan
1997 India – A Celebration of Independence. 1947–1997, Aperture, New York

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, USA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Deutsche Bank
Hermes, Paris, France
Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston, MA
Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE
Mead Art Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Photography MoCP, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Museum für Moderne Kunst, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, NY, USA
National Centre for Visual Arts, CNAP, France
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, USA
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tate Gallery, London, UK

2022 Hasselblad Award
2018 International Center of Photography Infinity Award, Artist’s Book: Museum Bhavan
2017 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, PhotoBook of the Year: Museum Bhavan
2014 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2008 Prince Claus Award, Amsterdam
2008 Robert Gardner Fellowship, Harvard University
1997 Andreas Frank Foundation grant