Pamela Singh Exhibitions

 

Pamela Singh: Faiyum Heads
September 1 - December 1, 2020


Pamela Singh’s Faiyum Heads (2004) series is a continuation of her exploration of self-portraiture, manipulating historical references, and processes within photography and painting. As in her earlier series, Tantric Self-Portraits (2000-2001), Singh experiments with her own identity: mixing and melding her own features with men and women, young and old, resulting in a fictitious array of Egyptian nobles.

 
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Pamela Singh: Chipko Tree Huggers of the Himalayas

September 1 - December 1, 2020

Singh's series on the original ecofeminists, The Chikpo Tree Huggers of the Himalayas, was included in the exhibition Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance (Act 1: 27 Oct 2018 – 27 Jan 2019, Nottingham Contemporary & Act 2: 9 Feb – 2 Jun 2019, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea).

The exhibition featured over 100 works by around 40 women and non-binary practitioners-- visual artists, writers, architects, designers, activists, collectives-- and presented the way in which resistance has been approached in a global context. "At the core of Still I Rise is the idea of collaboration, community building and egalitarianism."

The Himalayan women Singh documented not only protected the sacred khejri trees from deforestation by hugging them, they also set up cooperatives to guard the forests while they did the necessary work of toiling and irrigating fields, gathering wood, and keeping the community together to fight the social rifts caused by forest contractors. Images from her Chipko Tree Hugger series are also featured in the film, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2020), about the Gandhian eco-activist.

 

FACE OFF
January 24th - March 17th, 2018


A group show that explores confrontational and performative portraiture by seven artists working in installation, video, and photography. The exhibition features the work of Vivan Sundaram, Joaquin Trujillo, Pamela Singh, Angelika her, Nandita Raman, Soumya Sankar Bose, Serena Chopra and surprises from the private collection of Nigel Maister.

 

BOUNCE
October 20 – December 2, 2017


A group show that explores confrontational and performative portraiture by seven artists working in installation, video, and photography. The exhibition features the work of Vivan Sundaram, Joaquin Trujillo, Pamela Singh, Angelika Sher, Nandita Raman, Soumya Sankar Bose, Serena Chopra and surprises from the private collection of Nigel Maister.

 

THE TREASURE MAPS OF PAMELA SINGH
May 8 – July 17, 2015


A solo show comprised of five bodies of Pamela Singh’s work that span a period of 20 years. Singh’s photographs form an extended, entrancing journal tantamount to a waking dream, a search for affirmation of self within our perceived yet speculative world.