Ebenezer Singh
2009 – MFA – Art Institute of Boston at Lesley university – Massachusetts – USA
2002-03- ‘Painting Books – Hindu and Christian Iconography’ – Fulbright Scholarship – Art Institute of Boston at Lesley university – Massachusetts – USA
1999- Illustration and Printmaking – Charles Wallace Scholarship – Kingston university – Surrey – UK
1984 – 1989- Diploma in Fine Arts – Government College of Arts and Crafts – Chennai – India
Exhibition
Solo – (Selection)
2012 – ‘Eloi..Eloi….’- Ashok Jain Gallery – New York – USA
2010 – ‘Holy Smoke and Other Works’ – RL Fine Arts – New York – USA
2008 – ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’ – drawings and sculptures – Pundole Art Gallery – Mumbai – India
2007 – ‘Ebenezer-A Decade-Works 1997 – 2007’– Galerie Muller & Plate – Munich – Germany
2007- ‘Sharing the Planet’- oil paintings and bronze sculptures – Pundole art gallery – Mumbai – India
2006- ‘White Nights’ – acrylic paintings and fiberglass sculptures -Palette art gallery – New Delhi – India
2005- ‘Ebenezer – Recent Works’ – acrylic paintings and fiberglass sculptures-Pundole art gallery – Mumbai – India
2005- ‘Blind Man’s Profession’ – acrylic paintings and fiberglass sculptures – Anant art gallery – New Delhi – India
2003- ‘Senses’ – acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings, and wood carvings – Gallery Bellevue – Berlin – Germany
2001- Painting books and Fiberglass Sculptures – Pundole art gallery – Mumbai – India
2000- ‘Balloon Man – painting Books and fiberglass sculptures – The Easel Art Gallery – Chennai – India
1999- ‘Neti…Neti….’ – prints, drawings and paintings – Kingston University – Surrey – UK
1998- ‘Kayittraravu’ – acrylic paintings and ceramic sculptures – The Easel Art Gallery – Chennai – India
1996- ‘The Hollow men The Stuffed Men’ – acrylic paintings on handmade papers – The Easel Art Gallery – Chennai – India
Group (Selection)
2012 – ‘Radiate’ – Curated by Kathryn Myers – 1st venue: -Windsor Art Center – CT, 2nd venue: – Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago – IL – USA
2012 – ‘Video Wednesday – II’ – Curated by Gayatri Sinha & Critical Collective – Gallery Espace – New Delhi – India
2011 – ‘End to End’ – Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Centre – New York – USA
2011 – ‘No Balding Nor Tangling the Hair’ – Three Artists Exhibition – The Faraway Tree Gallery – Chennai – India
2011 – ‘The Intuitive-Logic Revisited’ – Osian’s & World Economic Forum – Davos-Klosters – Switzerland
2011- ‘Myself’ – A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraiture – Currated by Marjorie Vecchio – Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery – Reno – Nevada – USA
2010 – Video India – Videospace – Budapest – Hungary
2009-‘Marvelous Reality ‘– Curated by Sunil Mehra and Gallery Espace – Lalit Kala Akademi – New Delhi – India
2009- The Art of India – 20 years of Contemporary Indian Art – Indien-Institut – Munich – Curated by Galerie Muller & Plate – Munich – Germany
2009- India Art Summit – Curated by Photoink – New Delhi – India
2009- Video Wednesday – ‘War in the East War in the West’ – Curated by Johny M L – Gallery Espace – New Delhi – India
2009 (July) to 2010 (February)- ‘Self and the Other – Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography’ – Curated by Devika Daulet-Singh & Luisa Ortinez – Venue – 1. La Virreina Centre De la Imatge Palau de la Virreina – Barcelona – Spain. Venue – 2. ARTIUM –Centro-Museo Vascode Arte Contemporanea – Vitoria – Gasteiz – Spain
2008- Art Paris – Pundole Art Gallery – Abu Dhabi – UAE
2006-2007- Sotheby’s Contemporary Indian Art – New York – USA
2006- ‘Hybrid Trend’- Curated by M Ramachandran – India & Korea, Contemporary Art – Seoul, Korea
2006- ‘Human Figure’ – Curated by Marta Jakimowicz Karle – Gallery Threshold – New Delhi – India
2005- ‘Are we like this only’ – Curated by Vidya Shivadas – Vadehra Art Gallery – New Delhi – India
2002- ‘Navarasa’ – Curated by Dr. Alka Pande & Apparao Galleries – India Habitat Centre – New Delhi – India
2001(Sep) to 2002(Feb)- ‘Inspirationen’-Three Artists Exhibition – Curated by Andreas Weigelt – Museum fur Indische Kunst – Berlin – Germany
2000- ‘Heads and Tails’ – Two Artists Exhibition- with Czech. Sculptor Petr Kavan – The Easel Art Gallery – Chennai – India
1999- Contemporary Indian Art – Curated by Maya Gallery – Air Gallery – London – UK
1998- International Artists Camp Exhibition – National Museum – Colombo – Sri Lanka
1998- ‘Creative Process’ – Curated by Dr. Shivaji Panikar – The Guild Art Gallery – Mumbai – India
1997- ‘Chennai Four’ – Curated by Rekha Puri & Aman Nath – Art Today Gallery – New Delhi – India
1995- ‘The Young Contemporaries’ – Curated by Bharati Kapadia – Lakeeren Gallery – Mumbai – India
Curatorial Work
2012 – ‘Yudh Abhyas’ – 6 American Artists 5 Indian Artists – A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery – New York – USA
2012 – ‘Walk Allover Me’ – Sharmila Mohandas – Singh and Thapar Projects – New Delhi – India
2012 – ‘Fathers and Sons –II’ – Raghu Rai, Nitin Rai – Singh and Thapar Projects – New Delhi – India
2011 – ‘Fathers and Sons –I’ – KM Adimoolam, Aparajithan Adimoolam, Abanindran Adimoolam – Singh and Thapar Projects – New Delhi – India
Bibliography (Selection)
Gallery400.uic.edu – Radiate : Art of the South Asian Diaspora – 2012
Shreya Ray – The art freeway – livemint.com – Sep.21 – 2012
Susanna Groves – Windsor Art Center – diasporaalliance.org – May 25, 2012
Susan Dunne – ‘Radiate : Art of the South Asian Diaspora – courant.com – May 11, 2012
Uma Kannan – Of Tigers, Humans and the Sea – The New Indian Express – February 1, 2011
Johny M L – Critiques from the Micro Worlds – (catalogue essay) – The Faraway Tree Gallery – January 2011
Judith Argila – L’India es Retrata – A Viva Veu – September 20, 2009
Corinne Bernard – Portraits de L’Inde Contemporaine – Vivre a Barcelone – September 24, 2009
Maria Palau – Moltes Indies – EL PUNT.CAT – July 26, 2009
Madhur Tankha – Raising a toast to video art – The Hindu – July 25, 2009
Himanshu Bhagat – Videos and popcorn – Lounge – livemint.com – The Wall Street Journal – July 24, 2009
Deepak Ananth – Self etcetera – (catalogue essay – Self and the Other, Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography) – Ajuntament de Barcelona, Lunwerg Editores, Artium – Barcelona – July 2009
Roobina Karode – Thus Spake Zarathustra – (catalogue essay) – Pundole Art Gallery – May 2008
Ramya Sarma – Speaking in tongues – DNA – May 23, 2008
Rewati Rau – German Odyssey – Hindustan Times – February 7, 2007
Deepanjana Pal – Body Language – Time Out, Mumbai – May 2007
Raffael Dedo Gadebusch – Individuell universell, Die Malerei Ebenezers – (catalogue essay) – Galerie Muller & Plate – September 2007
I collect my memories: Ebenezer – The Times of India – September 27, 2007
Meera Menezes – White Nights – (catalogue essay) – Palette Art Gallery – May 2006
Deeksha Nath – Acts of Faith – Art India – Vol. XI, Issue III, Quarter III – 2006
Reacting to the Surface – www.mattersofart.net – May 2006
Suneet Chopra – Resist Colonial Thinking… – The Financial Express – May 14, 2006
Marta Jakimowicz – The Human Figure, the figure of metaphor – (catalogue essay) – Threshold Art Gallery – August, 2006
Nancy Adajania – The Body is an Unfinished Room – (catalogue essay) – Anant Art Gallery – April 2005
Nancy Adajania – Creating his own Muse – The Hindu – May 01, 2005
Shailaja Tripathi – Mythological Musings – The Indian Express – February 06, 2004
Shankar Natarajan – ‘When verses meet colour’ – The Hindu – January 21, 2002
Ashrafi S. Bhagat – Interpreting the ‘Navarasas’ – The Hindu – August 11, 2002
Meher Pestonjee – Resilience and Vulnerability – The Art News Magazine of India – Vol.VI, Issue IV – 2001
Hetal Sheth – Memories and Metaphors – The Times of India – September 5, 2001
Von Michael Nungesser – Postmoderne im Madras-stil – Die Tageszeitung – October 19, 2001
Raffael Dedo Gadebusch – Inspirations – German News – Vol. XLII – November 2001
Anita Staud – Minni & Mickey – Tip Magazin – February 2002
Oliver Heilwagen – Jenseits von Bollywood – Der Tagesspiegel – December 15, 2001
Von Jack Rodriguez – Inspiration und Tradition – Neues Deutschland – September 27, 2001
Anjali Sircar – Tracing a religious passion – The Indian Express – November 18, 2001
Ranjan De – Different strokes – The Indian Express – July 11, 2001
Purnima Ganapathy – A Human Perspective – The Indian Express – December 24, 2000
Anjali Sircar – Integral strokes – The Hindu – December 25, 2000
V R Devika – Brought together by ideas – The Hindu – February 27, 2000
G Babu Jayakumar – A Czech and a mate in art – News Today – February 17, 2000
B Kishore – Heads I win, Tails I win – The Indian Express – February 27, 2000
Ranjan De – Brushes with real life – The Indian Express – September 27, 1998
Urmi Sen – Responding through art forms – The Economic Times – September 20, 1998
Ranjan De – Kayittraravu – The Easel Art Gallery – September 1998
M Ramachandran – Little drops of water on canvas – The Statesman – April 28, 1997
Johny M L – The Hollow Men The Stuffed Men – (catalogue essay) – The Easel Art Gallery – October 1996
Geeta Doctor – Body talk – The Indian Express – November 16, 1996
Prasanna Ramaswamy – Capturing the transitory moment – The Economic Times – November 6, 1996
G Babu Jayakumar – A feast of Colour – News Today – November 7, 1996
Atiya Amjad – An Abstract Dialogue – News Time – June 14, 1996
Geeta Doctor – Cholamandal, The New Generation – The Indian Express – August 6, 1995