CV

Ruchika Wason Singh is a visual artist, art educator and an independent researcher based in Delhi, India. She holds degrees in B.F.A.,Painting (1997) and M.F.A.,Painting,(1999) from College of Art, New Delhi. In 2008 she received Ph.D from University of Delhi supported by the U.G.C. Junior Research Fellowship (2001-2006). In 2016, Ruchika founded A.M.M.A.A. -The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia, a project fostering the mapping , visibility and mobility of mothers / artists of Asian origin through documentation, workshops and artist residency programs. Ruchika has been creating and exhibiting in the field of art since 1999.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2023- Seeking a Common Ground-Looking at the Other M/other, Frise Kunstlerhaus,

    Hamburg,Germany

  • 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

  • 2007- Transit Spaces, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi,India.

  • 2002 -Yesterday Once More, Triveni Gallery, New Delhi,India.


  • Selected Recent Participations

    2023

  • India Week Hamburg 2023,Hamburg,Germany.

  • World Art Osaka:Paintings Now Redux curated by Mizuki Endo, Art Stage Osaka 2023,Grand Cube, Osaka,Japan

  • Art Workshops- Common Ground-An Exercise in Empowerment for Artist Mothers, Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst Und Fotographie Hamburg & FRISE,Hamburg

  • Diffuso curated by Vincenzo Sanfo, MIDA - Museo Internazionale delle Donne Artiste, Church of Madonna Dei Prati, Ceresole d’Alba, Province of Cuneo, Piedmont Region, Italy

  • MATRIX curated by Monica Jain, Art Centrix Space, New Delhi,India

  • Paper Jam II, Gallery Onkaf, New Delhi

  • Chennai Photo Biennale Photo Kadai - The Female Artists Edition, Online

  •  A Collective Wisdom curated by Monica Jain, Art Centrix Space, New Delhi

  • ChART (2023) curated by Remi Rana Allen & Srinivas Surti, University of Arts, London,U.K.

  • India Art Fair, Art Centrix Space Booth


    2022

  • Our Line in The Sand  (2022) curated by Monica Jain, Art Centrix Space, New Delhi

  • Cha curated by Remi Rana Allen & Srinivas Surti, University of Arts, London,U.K

  • The Circle of Life curated by Alnoor Mitha, Art Centrix Space, New Delhi

  • VAMA 2022 by Sahitya Kala Parishad, Shridharini Gallery , New Delhi


2021

  • Asia Triennial Manchester 2021 curated by Alnoor Mitha, Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester Metropolitan University ,U.K.

  • Open Books Online in collaboration with Welsh artist Aidan Myers, Open Books International Project Buka Buku curated by Lienne Loy, The Godown Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • The Book of Collective Healing with Daniel Rode, Ryusuke Ito and Katja Jug at The White Distance exhibition at UNION HALL, Hanoi, Vietnam

  • How to be Together collaborative segment of artist residency by Galit Criden, at the Women’s Art Library,University of Goldsmiths, London,UK.

      2020

  • Paper Jam-I , Künstlerhaus FRISE, Hamberg, Germany, conceptualised by Nana Kintz and Christian F. Kintz 

    2019

  • 19th International Art Exchange Exhibition, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

  •  Brief Parables of Dystopia, Curators Sumita Chauhan & Neha Tickoo, Gallery Onkaf at MOMus - Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • The Summer Showcase 2019, curated by Dr. Stella Bolaki, The British Academy , London, U.K.

    2018

  • MEADOWS at Salon Des Beaux Arts, Carrousel du Louvre ,Paris, France

  •  The Blood of Women- Traces of Red on White Cloth, Curated by Manuela de Leonardis,           Hospital SS. ANNUNZIATA in CHIETI, Italy

  • 1st Korat International Art Workshop , Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

  • 13th International Art Workshop, Poh Chang Academy of Art, Bangkok,  Thailand

    2017

  • Utopia Land , The Heritage Space Gallery, Hanoi , Vietnam, Curated by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Tran Trong Vu & Vuhuythong Vu

    2016 

  • 15th International Painting & Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition, Citizen’s Gallery No. 1, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

International Residencies

  • 2023-India Week Hamburg 2023, Frise Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany

  • 2021-International SUMUK Art Talk + Artist Residency of the Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale curated by Seungmi-Lee, Sinan, South Korea

  • 2021-‘The White Distance’ ,Month of Arts Practice (MAP Artist Residency Programme), The Heritage Space, Hanoi, Vietnam

  • 2017-Utopia Land , The Heritage Space Gallery, Hanoi , Vietnam

  • 2007- International Painters’ Residency, Theertha Inernational Artists’ Collective, Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka.

Awards

  • 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.

Research Projects

  • 2024- Seeking a Common Ground-Looking at the Other M/other (India chapter).

  • 2023-Trans-sensory stories of gender based violence, University of Brighton,UK.

  • 2023-Decolonising Maternity -A network of academics/artists/activists developing work on experiences of maternity in collaboration with Dr Jessica Moriarty, University of Brighton, UK.

Grant

2023- SEED funding from Centre for Arts & Wellbeing, University of Brighton, UK.

Publications & Collections

Ruchika’s writings have been published in Demeter Press (Canada); Routledge Publications (U.K. & India); Intellect Books (U.K.); The Mother Magazine(U.K.) ;Lalit Kala Contemporary (India); Studies in the Maternal (U.K.); the blog of Centre of Medical Humanities, Durham University, U.K. ; Journal of Motherhood Initiative (Canada) & Visual Studies (U.K.) amongst others. Her works are in public and private collections in U.K., U.S., China, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Cuba, Indonesia and Philippines.

Ruchika held teaching positions as a visiting faculty at College of Art (at different intervals)  between 2000-2010; as Lecturer (Department of Painting) 2010-2011 & as an Associate  Professor (Department of Painting) 2012-2017. She is a Visiting Professor at Ashoka  University,Sonipat. She is represented by Art Centrix Space, New Delhi. Ruchika lives and  works in Delhi. 

IMPORTANT LINKS 

EVENTS 

India Week Hamburg (2023) 

https://www.deichtorhallen.de/veranstaltung/common-ground-eine-übung-in-empowerment-für-künstler innen-mütter 

Diffuso (2023) 

• https://www.guidemostre.it/mida/ 

• https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H-0hykL5iT4NAtNxNeS4F-EDkoFEjeUA?usp=share_link

• https://mincioedintorni.com/2023/05/29/a-ceresole-dalba-aperto-il-mida-museo-internazionale-donne artiste-la-prima-esposizione-permanente-deuropa-per-larte-femminile/ 

• https://crono.news/Y:2023/M:05/D:30/h:19/m:45/s:51/mida-museo-internazionale-delle-donne-artiste-il primo-in-europa/ 

• https://www.cosasifa.com/2023/05/29/nato-il-museo-delle-donne-artiste/ 

Chennai Photo Biennale -Photo Kadai- Women Artists’ Edition (2023-ongoing) • https://chennaiphotobieennale.foundation/learninglab/projects/photo-kadai-the-female-artists-edition/ ruchika-wason-singh 

Art Stage Osaka 2023 (2023) 

• https://www.artstageosaka.com/en/copy-of-artists-1/ruchika-wason-singh 

Matrix- succinct ecosystems of thought (2023) 

• https://artcentrix.com/show/matrix--succinct-ecosystems-of-thought-64dc9503881af 

A Collective Wisdom (2023) 

Exhibition Review by Uma Nair 

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/plumage/scale-and-textures-and-pure-process/ 

The Circle of Life (2022) 

• https://www.artcentrix.com/vr/the-circle-of-life-635f813100c28 

Cha-What Does Brownness Mean to You ? (2022) 

Download the E-Catalogue  

• https://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/postgraduate-study/postgraduate-community/stories/cha,-a-print publication-from-brown-leaders-and-markers-exist-bl-and-me 

Our Line in The Sand (2022) 

• https://www.artcentrix.com/vr/our-line-in-the-sand-625e877697287 

Open Books, A Project on Chinese Folding Books by Mary Husted  

• https://www.openbooks-international.org/ruchika-singh-wason 

  Prescriptions (2016) 

• https://issuu.com/prescriptions/docs/prescriptions_catalogue_sm/23 (pages 166-167)  • http://collective-investigations.blogspot.in/2016/04/intimate-and-cathartic-is-constellation.html 

Utopia Land, Month of Art Practice (MAP) 2017 

• https://issuu.com/heritagespace/docs/hsmap_2017_catalog_layout__issue (pages 47-49, 61) • https://drive.google.com/file/d/13SWOhTd0MIy_NPY8ii5qNEF88jPnGV2w/view?usp=share_link 

The Blood of Women- Traces of Red on White Cloth 

• https://issuu.com/gianniromano2/docs/sanguedelledonnesampissue (page 56)  • http://www.artnowpakistan.com/the-blood-of-women-traces-of-red-on-white-cloth/ • http://www.kic.hr/galerija-forum/zenska-krv/ 

Experiences: Asian Women in Global Culture 

• https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/library/experiences-asian-women-in-global-culture 

Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale Residency & Exhibition (2021) • https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=EnrC5Qsz3fp (please find my works on floor 1). • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8A5aacjKfY 

Asia Manchester Triennial (2021) https://www.atm.mmu.ac.uk/ 

The White Distance , Month of Art Practice (MAP) 2021 https://the-white-distance.art/artists BUKA BUKU (2021) 

• https://www.thegodown.com.my/bukabuku 

• https://www.openbooks-international.org/ruchika-wason-singh-aidan-myers DIEP 

• https://www.desperateartwives.co.uk/woman-up-podcast-series-3-episode-3-ruchika-wason-singh/ 5

PRESS  

• https://www.artamour.in/post/ruchika-w-singh-the-mother-artist 

• http://www.diep.org.uk/diep-art/associate-artists-2/asia/ 

• http://allevents.in/isola%20del%20liri/il-sangue-delle-donne-tracce-di-rosso-sul-panno bianco-2nd-edition/1777675352465254 

• http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/newspdfs/105_2.pdf (pp 7) 

PODCASTS

Renewing the World Podcast, Season 2,Episode 1 

In dialogue: Weronika Zielińska-Klein and Ruchika Wason Singh 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5ae9a-14a7c9f? 

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Woman Up ! Podcast Series 5 Episode 2 

Supporting Mother Artists in India, featuring the AMMAA Artist Residency 2022 artists Aparajita Jain Mahajan  and Alka Mathur and the founder of AMMAA Ruchika Wason Singh.  

https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/woman-up/id1451539991?i=1000608785768 

Woman Up! Podcast series 3 Episode 3 

Ruchika Wason Singh - Archiving Mother Artists in Asia 

https://youtu.be/twM4DFIRiko