Charan Singh

Charan Singh lives and works in New Delhi and London. Singh’s art practice is informed by HIV/AIDS work and community activism in India. He is a candidate for a practice-led PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2016, he earned a Magnum/Photo London award for his portrait series “Kothis, Hijras, Giriyas and Others,” which was featured in the 2017 Photoworks Annual. He was a 2017 resident at the Fire Island Artist Residency. His latest book and exhibition (with Sunil Gupta), Delhi: Communities of Belonging was published by The New Press 2016 and exhibited at SepiaEye, New York in 2017. A later iteration, Dissent and Desire was shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2018 and also at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi, India in 2018-19.