Din A4 - Chitra Singh - Ink on paper

Curriculum vitae

Date of Birth: 21 Mar 1963
Lives and works in Noida, U.P.,India
1986 MA Drawing & Painting, Meerut University, UP, India
Secured 3rd position in the university
2006 Art Appreciation course, National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology (Deemed to be a University) New Delhi
2008 Felicitation by Chief Justice of India (National Legal Services authority) on Women Day

Solo Exhibitions

Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi Nov 2010
Lokayata Art Gallery, New Delhi Sep 2010
Studio Ingrid Bugla, Essan, Germany May 2010
Atelier WR,Unterweiden 154,Duesseldorf,Germany,
May2010 ChitraKala Parishad, Bangalore, Dec 2006
State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, Nov 2006
Hotel The Ashok, Chankyapuri, New Delhi, Oct 2005
Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, Mar2005

Photo above: Chitra Singh - Waves II, 18 x 20 inch - Oil on canvas

Group Shows

Madhuban hotel, Deharadun,UP, June2011
Ginni devi PG girls college,UP, Mar 2011
Muradabad educational trust,Muradabad,UP, Feb 2011
C.C.S. University, Meerut ,U.P. Dec 2010
Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi June 2010
Shanta Art Gallery, New Delhi Mar 2010
Gallery Indraprashta , New Delhi Oct 2009
The Nehru Center, London,UK June 2009
Japan Foundation, New Delhi June 2009
Moon Park Golf Course, North Wood, London,UK May 2009
The Country Club, Sainik Farms, New Delhi Feb 2009
AIFACS, New Delhi Sep 2008
Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, Aug 2008
Foyer Gallery Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Apr 2008
Women Artist Group Show at The Art Mall, Delhi Mar 2008
Art Ville Sainik Farms, New Delhi Mar 2008
Vasant Studio, New Delhi Mar 2008
Epicentre, Gurgaon Haryana Feb 2008
India Russia Contemporary Art Exhibition at Russian Centre of Science & Culture New Delhi Feb 2008
The Art Mall(Bhiku Ram Jain Art Gallery),Delhi Feb 2008
Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi Jan 2008
AIFACS,New Delhi, Dec 2007
Purva Snanskritik Kendra, Delhi Sep 2007
Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi Dec 2006
Travancore Art Gallery, Delhi, Oct 2006
Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi Jan 2006
Greenwood Art Gallery, New Delhi, Nov 2005
Purva Snanskritik Kendra, Delhi Nov2005
Indraprastha Art Gallery, Delhi Jun 2005
Purva Snanskritik Kendra, Delhi May 2005
UP State Lalit Kala Academy Annual Exhibition,1986

Photo above: Chitra Singh - Waves I, 18 x 20 inch - Oil on canvas

Camps

2007 Artist’s camp organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad Delhi
2007 Artist’s camp at The Art Mall (Bhiku Ram Jain Art Gallery)

Workshop

2007 As Director Children’s Art Workshop’ organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad Delhi

Photo above: Chitra Singh – Reflection II, 40 x 40 inch - Oil on canvas

Display & Collection of Works

Mesco Kalinga Steel Limited, New Delhi
Taj palace Hotel, New Delhi
Raj Bhawan, Bangalore
The Art Mall, 5 N G Road, Shivaji Marg New Delhi
Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi
The Chakaras restaurant, Samrat Hotel, New Delhi
And various private collection

Photo above: Chitra Singh – Midday, 40 x 40 inch - Oil on canvas

Statement

”I have been interested in art since my childhood and had art as a subject during my academic carrier. I feel it is an ideal medium of conveying emotions, feelings and communicating an artist’s inner expressions, imagination and creativeness. I completed my post graduation in Drawing and Painting in 1986 from Meerut University, Meerut, UP, India. My marriage to an Air Force officer, gave me opportunities to travel around the country, understand it’s wonderful people, their rich and diverse cultures and colorful emotions. I painted and created whatever I saw and appealed to me.
Love for beautiful nature and life translates into simplified and modernistic language in paintings. “My subject matter is simple and I express my aesthetic belief in artistic creativity with striking impact.” I feel each part of a painting has its own psychological effect, which depends upon the perception of each individual. My paintings convey own language of paint and brush subtly, suggestive of my fleeting moods, which I express broadly by breaking the space of canvas.
Colours in art are used in form to denote moments and express objects and relations. They themselves constitute the elements of language, adequate to express emotion similar to musical sound acting on the soul. I give independent value to colours, tint, lines, space and forms. The use of pure and bright shades of colours and rhythmic and spiral lines reflect excitement, movement, grace and charm of life. Art itself is the expression of inner meaning of emotion but in a painting, colours represent harmonic relations between emotions and life.
My paintings are always rounded off with a tenderness of feelings and deep concern for subjects, which are mostly from life. My compositions figurative or non figurative, convey my feelings and expressions.”
Chitra Singh