{"id":1492,"date":"2015-05-06T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/welcome\/?page_id=1492"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T03:58:30","slug":"rajinder-singh-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/rajinder-singh-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajinder Singh &#8211; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-c6uuv8-57bce4b7e3dc92f9f87739a2487e9aeb\">\n.avia-section.av-c6uuv8-57bce4b7e3dc92f9f87739a2487e9aeb{\nbackground-color:#f2f2f2;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-c6uuv8-57bce4b7e3dc92f9f87739a2487e9aeb main_color avia-section-small avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1492'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 30px; font-family: Open sans;\">Rajinder Singh<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-8psjj8-f0320b2f78a931f50eda832998e2a977 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1492'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-7dk03o-b42248af34e29a551fc41a31051cfac7 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Rajinder Singh \u2013 Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/rajinder-singh-overview\/\">overview<\/a>&nbsp;|<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Rajinder-Singh-revised-2025.pdf\">&nbsp;biography (CV)<\/a> |&nbsp;<a title=\"Rajinder Singh \u2013 Exhibitions\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/rajinder-singh-exhibitions\/\">exhibitions<\/a>&nbsp;| <a title=\"Rajinder Singh \u2013 Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/rajinder-singh-publications\/\">Publications<\/a> | <a title=\"Rajinder Singh \u2013 Press and News\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/rajinder-singh-press-and-news\/\">press and news<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3viyro-9c5f378e401f409765fc99c742604113\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-3viyro-9c5f378e401f409765fc99c742604113{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-3viyro-9c5f378e401f409765fc99c742604113 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Rajinder Singh&nbsp;(B.1964)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajinder Singh (b. Ipoh, Malaysia) is an artist and researcher working from his studios in Dublin and London. Rajinder\u2019s paintings, installations, photography, video, and performance work explore ideas around the vulnerable body and its pain, interrogating the economies of power that deny it space and shape. Often focused on the power of ritual action in the construction of the social body, his practice explores the ways the human body unfolds around various topographic and symbolic borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajinder Singh\u2019s last solo exhibition in Wei-Ling Gallery, \u2018<em>Saffron Songs\u2019<\/em>, took place in 2022. It featured a series of vibrant and dynamic paintings that the artist referred to as \u2018large scores\u2019, based on a set of sounds that held particular meaning to him, connecting him to his community, culture, and history. \u2018<em>Cage of Deliverance<\/em>&#8216;, held in 2016, was a body of work deeply rooted in the artist\u2019s intrigue with the gestures, movements, and rhythms of ritual practices in South Asia and the scarred, fragmented bodies as well as the healing, embracing unities they produce. Much like his first solo exhibition with the Gallery, \u201c<em>\u2026the ceiling floats away with a sigh..<\/em>\u201d in 2014, Rajinder based his works on the notion of spaces that distend from apertures and portals. Spaces such as the shrine, the temple, and the prayer mat are all located in the real world but are, in some inexplicable manner, connected to another distant and unmapped sphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajinder graduated with a PhD in Engineering (UK) in 1993 and a Master&#8217;s in Fine Arts (Singapore) in 2010. In 2023, he was invited to show a series of sculptures at the Royal Academy in Dublin as part of his solo presentation \u2018Pale in Saffron\u2019. In the same year he worked with dancers across the globe as an invited choreographer at the Irish Museum of Modern ( IMMA) as well as The Festival of Irish Choreographers. He was also recently shortlisted for both the Golden Fleece Award and EVA International Biennale 2022. He was part of the Tulca Festival of Arts in 2020 as well as Tulca 2019 and is the recipient of several awards for his sculptures and movement-based work. His sculptures were shown as part of the year-long exhibition \u2018Narrow Gate\u2019 at IMMA in 2021\/22 and recently in \u2018Bodywork\u2019 at Crawford Art Gallery. Rajinder is a recipient of substantial bursaries for his body-based, movement-oriented work from the Arts Council of Ireland. He has been commissioned for new work by various museums and art festivals in Ireland. Rajinder has taught as a guest artist\/choreographer at the Irish World Academy, Maynooth University, and University College Dublin. His work is part of the national arts collections in IMMA, The Glucksman Museum, and the Arts Council of Ireland. Rajinder is the founder of the contemporary art review magazine Drenched Reviews (www.soaked.space).<br \/>\n\/a&gt;).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rajinder Singh overview&nbsp;|&nbsp;biography (CV) |&nbsp;exhibitions&nbsp;| Publications | press and news Rajinder Singh&nbsp;(B.1964) Rajinder Singh (b. 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