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.

multimedia installation, 2024

‘Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns (Hydrogenesis)’ is a story of many stories. Of beginnings that are endings, and endings that are beginnings. This work engages with the confluence of migration, violent histories, and liquid extractions and flows. Indexing field research from along the Suriname River and the Awadh Plains, the work oscillates between the past and present of these two places. This project takes us to the ports & and paths of this once-historic migratory route to confront how colonial inheritances continue to shape us. Ruminating on water bodies, contested histories, and unruly ‘development’, this project examines how paradigms of colonial violence reemerge in new forms within Faizabad and Paramaribo. Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns maps a constellation of transcontinental histories across three centuries by returning to sites that entangle these two places and their histories.




Installation view of Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns, 2024


Antechamber; Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns, 2024


Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns, publication, 2024


Installation view of Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns, 2024


Detail from installation of Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns, 2024


Stills from Opaque Waters & Brutal Suns, two-channel video, 2024
© Anamika Singh 2025