Sumakshi Singh
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Installations and Exhibitions

Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto -Italy- Installation/ Animation - Memory Threads - 2009

"Projected onto old wooden machinery collected from the abandoned textile mills in Biella, the artist projects the image of the mill in its current dilapidated state. The image transforms via an animation constructed stitch by stitch, of the same spot in 1920 at the height of its prosperous history...."


Discreet pieces and Micro-interventions in/ on the wall - selected pieces from various shows - 2003 -2009

"Acrylic on polymer clay, moss, crystal, plaster and fungus... Tiny in form, these meticulously constructed pieces magnanimously seem to expand upon closer inspection. These micro-interventions accompanied by miniscule scars and amplified flaws, convert the sterile surfaces into saturated membranes..."



Galerie Kashya Hildebrand - Switzerland - Peel till they Bloom - solo show - 2008/ 09

"...Layers of paper - individually painted, shaped, cut and aligned transformed the gallery into a space falling apart over time. Walls split to reveal layers of history, they peeled into 3 dimensional curls and gently erupted into tiny micro-interventions that seemed to grow organically."




Camargo Foundation - France - Mapping the Memory Mandala - Interactive Installation - 2008

"... Viewers are invited to walk in and experience solid, recognizable forms, skewing and shattering into an unfamiliar map of their own frozen vision. Viewers watch themselves in a live video projection, walking through and over concrete seeming objects, while eventually blurring and erasing these fictional objects, through their motion."


Camargo Foundation - France - Mapping the Memory Mandala - Video and Stills - 2008

"...videos of my creation and erasure of this three dimensional fiction around myself. I co-relate my drawing on the floor, walls and other pre-existing furniture in the space to the image seen by the camera via an enlarged projection of it."




Sculpture Space - Utica, NY - Mapping the Studio - Perceptual Drawing/ Installation - 2008

"... Viewers are invited to walk in and experience solid, recognizable forms, skewing and shattering into an unfamiliar map of their own frozen vision."


Sketches in Space - Perceptual Sketches - 2004-2009

"... Various plays of perception in Space. Images are from different shows (Mattress Factory Museum, Subcity projects, Engendered, Camargo Foundation, Sculpture Space) as well as Studio investigations. "



Hyde Park Art Center - Chicago, IL - Sight Specific - 2007

"...investigative means of pushing conceptual ideas of interior / exterior aspects of shared physical space. The main premise is to deconstruct and examine the construct of curatorial practices as a new social framework by extending exhibition prosthetics as works of art."


Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art - Pittsburgh, PA - Elastic, Plastic, Echoes, Edges - 2007

"...Samina Mansuri and Sumakshi Singh actually map the physical reality of the galleries, forcing us to look the place with fresh eyes. All add nuances to our understanding of place. " -- Vicky A. Clark, Curator of Double Consciousness


Catwalk Residency - Catskills, NY - Average Utopia - 2006

"... The stagnant sunset project springboards from this idea of fast delivery, faster gratification. It questions the pre-conditions for desire, more than the final object of it. It presents the epitome without anticipation or completion, thus displacing it from time..."


Lower East Side - New York, NY - Interlude-(Oasis) - 2006

"...Singh’s work for Art in Odd Places is cast between cracks in the sidewalk. Barely visible, it entices busy commuters to stop for a moment and consider their surroundings. “It’s so subtle, and that’s beautiful to me,” Woodham said. Equally beautiful, perhaps, is the way in which Art in Odd Places fosters a subtle shift in awareness, encouraging its participants to look for art where before there was only life. ..." -- Jenni Wu


Van Harrison Gallery - New York, NY - Lumps, Bumps, and Things that are Art - 2006

"...You may think this empty gallery's plumbing has gone bad - water stains the wall to shin height; puddles gather in corners; gypsum board buckles; mildew and fungus sprout haphazardly...That immemorial question "But is it art?" gets answered here with wry, backhanded grace..." -- R.C. Baker, Village Voice


Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL - Flux - 2004

"...Sumakshi Singh's site-specific installations are microcosms of the tension between natural and built environments. Singh uses clay, copper wire, and paint, as well as living matter such as soil, plants, and mushrooms to create miniature forms that seem to grow from crevices and nail holes in the gallery walls, blurring the distinction between organic and synthetic..." -- mcachicago.org


Halsey Gallery - Charleston, SC - ElsewHere - 2005

"...Singh will effect subtle changes in the way viewers experience the Halsey Gallery. Through the artists’ installed ‘interventions’, walls, entryways, windows and lighting will be extended, compressed, articulated, and in other ways modified, playfully engaging viewers in the question of what parts of their visual experience are ‘real’- both within the gallery and outside it..." -- Nick Smith, Charleston City Paper


Gallery 400 - Chicago, IL - Void - 2003

"...On one hand: the trivial, accidental, cast-off, neglected, broken, overlooked, small, putrescent, finite. On the other hand: the macro, unending, cosmic, beloved, immaculate, grand, infinite. ...Take, for instance, a single “piece” from her show: whatever it is, it has no clear boundaries, there’s no way to say where it starts and stops, what keeps it from migrating into other “pieces"..." -- John Corbett, Catalogue Essay


Illinois State Museum and other shows

"This section contains images from various shows ( mostly macro views of installations). These investigations are at a tangent to my other work and have been specific explorations in themes concerning metaphor, illusion and reality in various ways."