Ayesha Singh’s (b. New Delhi, India) works question dominant perspectives embedded in our understanding of history, embodied by architecture and urban planning. Her site-specific responses consider how built spaces reflect the intricate politics inherent in nation-building exercises, reveal power dynamics, respond to migration and displacement, or function as a location of identity- embodying aspiration, desire, and belief.

Through research and critical spatial interventions, Singh works within gaps in cultural histories, including those that have long excluded women. Her work emphasizes collaboration and coexistence to unpack layers of alteration and the erasure of lived history through construction, restoration, and destruction. Singh’s practice contains participatory performances with poetry, kinetic sculptures, sculptural line-drawings, video, graphite drawings on paper, and public installations of scaffold and images that are created with community involvement.

Singh has exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide including at Singapore Biennale (upcoming 2025); Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK; Palazzo Madama/Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Turin, Italy; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; Museum of Sichuan Fine ArtsInstitute, Chongqing, China; and The Wolfsonian, Miami, USA. Singh was recently awarded the Liu Shimming Art Foundation Grant, New York (2024), Cross-Hatchings: New Delhi-Perth Residency by Khoj Artists Association and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Perth (2023), the Van Gogh House Residency, London (2022) and received the Emerging Artist of the Year award from India Today (2020) to name a few. Singh’s work has been written about in Art Review, Art Forum, Architectural Digest, Stir, Public Parking, and many other art and architecture publications including news media.