June 15 - August 17, 2024

Charan’s Singh’s new work, The Promise of Beauty, will be exhibited in his first major solo exhibition at The Art House. Developed during his 2023 residency, the series disrupts Euro-American versions of queerness by re-examining and re-creating minor figures from Company Paintings — hybrid paintings made in India, by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons.

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The Art House
Drury Ln
Wakefield WF1 2TE
United Kingdom

June 01, 2024

The World that Belongs to Us exhibition at The New Art Gallery concludes with the event Dream Baby Dream: Queer Worldmaking. The closing program unravels the queer themes within the project through talks, poetry, and performances by cultural practitioners from across the UK. As part of the event, Charan Singh and Sunil Gupta will host a two-hour closed workshop focused on the idea of queer and diasporic dreaming and network making within the narratives of care, survival and struggle with power for justice and dignity.

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The New Art Gallery
Walsall Gallery Square
Walsall WS2 8LG
UK

24 November 2023 — 9 June 2024

Charan Singh and Sunil Gupta’s work is included in The New Art Gallery Walsall’s The World that Belongs to Us. The exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists, largely from the South Asian diasporas of the UK and Canada, activating a wide range of conversations around archival histories and narratives, identity and belonging, collaboration and community, storytelling, the influence of popular culture, the fusion of the traditional with the contemporary and queer histories and perspectives. 

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The New Art Gallery
Walsall Gallery Square
Walsall WS2 8LG
UK

September 30 - December 16, 2023

Charan Singh is one of the artists selected for New Contemporaries 2023, an annual survey exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. The exhibition will launch at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool from 30 September to 16 December 2023 and then travel to Camden Art Centre from 19 January to 31 March 2024.

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Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street
Blackpool FY1 1PU
UK

May 19 - September 17, 2023

Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh, and Pamela Singh’s images are included at The Offbeat Sari, The Design Museum's exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. The show explores the sari as a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today.

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The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
London W8 6AG
United Kingdom

June 18 - August 15, 2021

In the late 2010s, Germany decided to allow people from refraining on having to officially report as either male or female, and gender identity protections are put in place. In the group exhibition, The Third Gender, questions of how gender affiliation is defined, and how that affects discourse on non-binary, transgender, transsexual, and intersex persons is examined. Works from Charan Singh's and Sunil Gupta's Delhi: Communities of Belonging are on view.

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A.K.T;
Pforzheimn, Germany

May/June 2021

Charan Singh will have an essay in the forthcoming issue of TAP (Trans Asia Photography) Journal. "Photographic Rehearsal: A Still-Unfolding Narrative,” will be in the May/June 2021 issue, the first issue under new editorship.

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November 30 & December 1, 2020

Premiering online Monday, November 30, 6pm EST and available to stream starting December 1, World AIDS Day, Transmission Day will feature six short videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.

Featuring videos by Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK).

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Visual AIDS
New York

December 12, 2018 – March 29, 2019

Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's project: Delhi: Communities of Belonging are among the first announced for inclusion to the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Curated by artist Anita Dube, although the vision of the other biennale has not been stated firmly yet, she has expressed: "I want to explore the vexed question of the relationship between art and politics," she says, "as well as the possibilities of a non-alienated life."* Congratulations to the artists, and we look forward to seeing the Biennale take shape.

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Various locations
Kochi, Kerala
India

June 14 – September 16, 2018

Charan Singh's work can be viewed in the group exhibition, Cast of Characters, a salon-style exhibition curated by artist Liz Collins. Collins has transformed The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center into a lush, densely patterned salon filled with portraits made by over 100 LGBTQ artists.

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The Center
New York
United States

March 3rd - April 8th, 2018

Charan Singh's work will be on view in If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly at the Abrons Art Center.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 14 | 6-8 pm

If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly
Abrons Art Center

January 20th - April 29th, 2018

Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's works documenting queer life are shared in Dissent and Desire at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston as a part of the FotoFest 2018 Biennial. 

Dissent and Desire
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

01 June – 15 September 2017

A selection from Charan Singh’s portrait series Kothis, Hijras, Giriyas and Others is on view at Clifford Chance. The photographs document homosexual Indian sub-cultures. The series title comes from the indigenous terms used by queer working class and transgendered men, often forced into sex work, to define their different and particular sexual identities. In Indian society, where class and caste are still major forces, these three groups are among some of the most marginalized.

Charan Singh: Kothis, Hijras, Giriyas and Others
Clifford Chance
31 W 52nd St.,
New York, NY 10019

November 9 – 14, 2015

Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh are exhibiting together at London’s 8th GFEST Gaywise Festival from November 9th-14th. The exhibition, ASIAN FUTURE, hosted at Menier Gallery, explores gender, sexuality, and religion from the lens of Asian photographers. More info here (Link).

Asian Future
Menier Gallery
London

June 16 – July 5, 2015

Charan Singh’s work is in “FRESHFACED + WILDEYED 2015,” The Photographer’s Gallery’s annual exhibition devoted to showcasing new voices in photography. The Guardian (Link) features a few of the works in the exhibition. His works from the series Kothis, Hijras, Giriyas and Others, India (2013) and a video piece, Do I Know You? has also been selected for Fotofest International’s “I Am A Camera.”

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FRESHFACED + WILDEYED 2015
The Photographers’ Gallery
London