Ayesha Singh

Ayesha Singh (b. 1990, New Delhi, India) is an artist whose practice responds to architecture and urban space as sites where power, politics, identity, and memory intersect. Her work questions dominant narratives embedded in the built environment, examining how architecture participates in nation-building, migration, displacement, and the shaping of aspiration and belief.

Informed by personal experiences of loss and displacement from her childhood home, Singh’s research-driven practice explores the historical and social contexts of space, with particular attention to gaps in cultural histories that have long excluded women.

Her multidisciplinary practice spans participatory performance with poetry, kinetic sculpture, video, scaffold-based public installations, sculptural line drawings, and graphite works on paper. Singh received her MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA in Sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art.

She has exhibited internationally at major institutions and platforms including the Singapore Biennale; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK; Sculpture by the Sea, Australia; Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; The Wolfsonian, USA; Van Gogh House, UK; Palazzo Madama, Italy; and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Museum, China.

Her work is held in public collections including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Burger Collection, MAP Bengaluru, The Partition Museum, and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Awards and residencies include the Lui Shimming Art Foundation Grant (2024), Cross-Hatchings Residency (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art & Khoj, 2024), and the Van Gogh House Residency (2022). Nature Morte has presented two solo exhibitions of her work (2021 and 2023).

She currently lives and works in New Delhi.