Shambhavi Singh was born in 1966 in Patna, Bihar. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts and Crafts, Patna, in 1986, and her Master’s degree in the same after moving to New Delhi from the College of Arts there in 1992. In 2001, Singh was artist in residence at Greatmore Studios in Cape Town, South Africa. Her works have been exhibited worldwide in a number of solo shows including, ‘Lullaby’ at Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, in 2008; ‘A Bird and 2000 Echoes’ at Talwar Gallery, New York, in 2007; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2002; and ‘Passage from India’ at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town, in 1998. Amongst her group shows are ‘Abstraction is Alive and Kicking’ at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai, in 2005; ‘We Are Like This Only’ at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2005; ‘Amrita Shergil Revisited: Celebrations of Women by Women Artists’ at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, in 2004; and ‘Unshackled Spirit’ at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 2003.

Singh lives and works in New Delhi.