Ruchika Wason Singh

(b. 1974, Delhi)

Ruchika is a senior contemporary visual artist, art educator, and independent researcher with 20 years of practice. She completed her BFA and MFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi (1997 and 1999), followed by doctoral research in art history as a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Delhi, receiving her Ph.D. (2008). She is the founder of the feminist research project The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia (A.M.M.A.A.).

Her practice focuses on the environment through human habitation, rooted in the hybridity of forms evolving from urban complexities. Her works, informed by a decade-long research in East and Southeast Asia, use Chinese ink, Japanese sumi-e ink, and papers like Japanese Washi, Korean Hanji, Vietnamese Dzo, and Chinese Xuan. Singh’s practice explores mark-making, traces, unknown spaces, continuums, traces, and intentional scratches to generate layered dialogues between history, the present, and imagined futures. She examines the dynamic relationship between consumerism and human habitation, translating it into new abstractions in post-war, post-colonial Indian contemporary art, reflecting ideas of freedom, movement, and transformation within today’s socio-cultural context.

Her recent exhibitions and projects include ‘Common Ground-Seeking the other (m)other’, Frise Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg (2023); ‘World Art Osaka: Painting Now Redux’, Art Stage Osaka (2023); ‘MATRIX: succinct ecosystems of thought’, Art Centrix Space, New Delhi (2023); ‘Diffuso’, curated by Vincenzo Sanfo, Museo Internazionale delle Donne Artiste (MIDA), Italy (2023), ‘\ India Art Fair with Art Centrix Space, New Delhi (2023) among others. Her works are a part of many institutional collections, including the of University of Brighton, U.K.

Singh lives and works in Delhi.