Ruchika Wason Singh

Ruchika Singh Wason’s artistic practice is predominantly centred around the ideas of mark-making in the history of painting and different forms of representations from the south-asian perspectives. Ruchika’s practice primarily interested in the ideas around the unknown spaces, forms of continuums and working with various traces and intentional scratches to generate a layered sense of dialogue between the history, present and possible imagined futures. Very interestingly the works open visual experiences to materialise different dimensions to co-associate, relate and generate multiple meanings. Ruchika’s works revolve around the research and using different traditional materials from South-East and East Asia. Ruchika’s artistic practice is about thinking and treating surfaces in very specific manners, which both philosophically and technically unfold space of accessibility and a sense of vocabulary to generate larger discourses. In that way, knowledge is experiential in Ruchika’s artworks. Ruchika’s practice also refers to the dynamism between the idea of consumerism and human habitation at different levels, which multiply the emergence of new forms of abstractions as well as the representation of new forms of post-war. Largely, the artistic practice symbolises and reflect the idea of freedom, movement and the transformative attitude of artistic production to challenge and activate spaces in the present socio-cultural situations.

Ruchika Wason Singh (born: 1974) is a visual artist, art educator and independent researcher based in Delhi,India. Pursuing her creative interests she completed B.F.A. (Painting) in 1997 and M.F.A. (Painting)in 1999 from College of Art, New Delhi. In 2001 she undertook doctoral research at University of Delhi This research was supported by the Junior Research Fellowship (2001-2006) from University Grants Commission, New Delhi. Following this she received Ph.D. in 2008. In 2020-2021 -Certificate Course- Japanese Books :From Manuscript to Print, under Professor Melissa McCormick, Harvard University, U.S. She has exhibited Internationally like in 2021 Open Books Online, Collaborative Digital Project - Haikus in Nature with Aidan Myers, a project by Open Books International and The Godown, Kuala Lumpur, 2021 Love Thy Neighbour, curated by Alnoor Mitha, Asia Manchester Triennial, Poetry Library, Manchester, U.K, 2021 The White Distance,exhibition at UNION HALL, Hanoi, Vietnam, (Collaborative Project -The Book of Collective Healing with Daniel Rode, Ryusuke Ito and Katja Jug) 2021 Month of Art Practice , Chat-Room, Heritage Space, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2021 The Blood of Women- Traces of Red on White Cloth, Curated by Manuela de Leonardis, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy, 2021 Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale, Sunset Art Museum, Sinan, South Korea, 2020 Paper Jam , Künstlerhaus FRISE, Hamberg, Germany (conceptualised by Nana Kintz and Christian F. Kintz), 2020 Mask Art- Creativity under lockdown (part of UNESCO RESILIART. She has exhibited several solo shows like in 2019 Balagan in Metamorphosis & Other Stories, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2017 Project Habit/ At, Huong Ngo Art Space, Hanoi, Vietnam, organised by Nguyen, Anh Tuan, 2007 Transit Spaces, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India, 2002 Yesterday Once More, Triveni Gallery, New Delhi, India. She has won several awards like in 2006 Aifacs, All India Art Exhibition Award, New Delhi, 2001-2006 Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, New Delhi, 2003 Yuva Mahotsav Award, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi, 2001 H.K. Kejriwal Award, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, 1995-1999 Merit Scholarship, College of Art, New Delhi, 1999 M.F. Hussain Award, College of Art, New Delhi, 1997 Biswanath Mukherjee Award, College of Art, New Delhi.