ANAMIKA SINGH

Anamika Singh (b. India, active New York City) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work contends with the contested histories produced by transfers and flows of power and violence. Singh’s first institutional solo is currently on view at the Chazen Museum of Art from April 7th to July 13th. Singh will begin her doctoral research at the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in the fall of 2025.

Corpus

April 7th - July 13th 2025
Chazen Museum of Art
Sound Design: X Medianoche
︎︎︎Corpus Press Release


Anamika Singh’s “Corpus” is as much excavation as exhibition — a body of work that digs into the politics of history, architecture and control. Rooted in her film Sheetla, which documents the Hindi language newspaper Jan Morcha and its coverage of the 1992 Babri Mosque demolition, “Corpus” traces the uneasy overlap between archaeology and nationalism. Singh’s work confronts the ways symbols of power are constructed — sometimes literally — from the wreckage of violence. Singh is this year’s recipient of the Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize, awarded annually by the Chazen Museum of Art and UW-Madison’s Art Department. Sheetla will screen throughout the exhibition’s run, from April 7-July 13. A reception takes place from 5-7 p.m. on April 22.



Detail from Corpus: In the Aftermath of Empire, multi-media installation, 2025


Stills from Sheetla (2025)


Detail from Corpus: In the Aftermath of Empire, multi-media installation, 2025

“Singh’s work pushes us to interrogate the forms in which histories of power, labor, and violence appear— or conveniently disappear. What is the true difference between destruction and construction, and what are the qualities in each that signal victory or defeat? What does it mean to witness in the present, and research from the future? Singh speaks to these questions through video, installation, writing, and printed matter, using strategies from outside the often overtly permissive realm of artistic research, instead critically applying methods from anthropology, journalism, and documentary. She calibrates the fluid positions of insider and outsider, diasporic subject and citizen, with the knowledge that there are no absolutes about the history carried within us.“

- Lumi Tan

For more information about this exhibition please visit the Chazen Museum of Art website or please reach out via the website form. 


Detail from Gawahi (testimony), installation, 2025



Entrance to second gallery; Gawahi (testimony), installation, 2025


B-Roll, video loop, 2025 (left) and Gawahi (testimony), installation, 2025 (right)
© Anamika Singh 2025