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Ebenezer Sunder Singh
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"I am a Christian, but being part of the Hindu society, I draw my energy from both Christian and Hindu religion which enables me to accept, cultivate and interpret the rich cultural heritage of India in the fullest possible way."
D. Ebenezer Sunder Singh was born in 1966 at Tirunelveli, a town in Tamil Nadu, and grew up in the midst of age-old traditions, imbibing a great deal from the rich cultural milieu that surrounded him. It is no...
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"I am a Christian, but being part of the Hindu society, I draw my energy from both Christian and Hindu religion which enables me to accept, cultivate and interpret the rich cultural heritage of India in the fullest possible way."
D. Ebenezer Sunder Singh was born in 1966 at Tirunelveli, a town in Tamil Nadu, and grew up in the midst of age-old traditions, imbibing a great deal from the rich cultural milieu that surrounded him. It is no wonder then that Singh is known as one of India`s most promising new talents. His sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings are recognized all over the country, and this versatile young man has exhibited and won honours for himself ever since he began his career as a professional artist in the early 1990`s. Religion and religious themes play a big part in Ebenezer`s art, which is influenced by Hindu ethics as well as Christian beliefs. Spirituality is also a very important ingredient for this artist, whose paintings have an undeniably Indian character, but are subtly twisted by his very contemporary idiom and his translation of the mythology of our subcontinent. This is what makes Ebenezer`s art rich in substance and meaning, making it universally appealing.
Ebenezer likes to interpret what he has seen and experienced into a visual language that is enriched by his overflowing cache of personal and religious symbols. In his works we see the concepts of life and death, charity and sin, and pleasure and pain emerging with meanings and connotations that are sometimes so personal as to be alien to us, and therefore only comprehensible when looked at through the lens of Singh`s own psyche - which he is always ready to explain.
In 2000, Singh held a show in Chennai, where the title piece and main attraction of the exhibition was a fiberglass sculpture called the "Balloon Man." Both the man and the balloon in this sculpture were surviving on the same air, and according to Ebenezer, illustrated the fact that human life was as transient as that of a balloon. Both could be lost in no more than a fraction of a second. The other works on display also centered on the theme of mortality, mainly the drawings and prints that he made the last year whilst on a Charles Wallace Trust Scholarship to Kingston University, England.
In the same exhibition, Ebenezer displayed a new and innovative set of installation like pieces that he had been working on. He created what he calls book paintings, which basically are a series of watercolours on handmade paper influenced by religious texts and picture stories, and bound together between two copper sheets. These copper plates also have drawings beaten on them, and help the books to stand and be viewed as a series of paintings in an installation.
Singh received his diploma in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts & Crafts in Chennai and a Merit Scholarship from the Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu. He has also received the Lalit Kala Akademi research Grant (1991 - 92), Junior Fellowship of the Government of India (1995 - 96) and the Arnawaz Vasudev Scholarship (1995).
He has been a teacher for many years at the Loyola Institute of Visual Communication, the Vijaya College of Fine Arts at Gadag, Karnataka, the Government College of Arts & Crafts, and the Hindustan Engineering College, both in Chennai.
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Born
1966
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Education
Diploma in Fine Arts, Government College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'Holy Smoke and other Works', RL...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'Holy Smoke and other Works', RL Fine Arts, New York
2005 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 'Blindman’s Profession', Ananat Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 ‘Senses', Gallery Bellevue, Berlin
2003 'Memory Compulsions', York Square Gallery, New Havan, Connecticut
2002 British Council's Living Wall, Chennai "In and Out"
2001 Gallery Bellevue, Berlin
2001 'Blindman's Profession', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 'Balloon Man', The Easel Art Gallery, Chennai
2000 'Neti...Neti....', Kingston University, UK
1998 'Kayittraravu', The Easel Art Gallery, Chennai
1996 'The Hollow men The Stuffed Men', The Easel Art Gallery, Chennai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'No Balding Nor Tangling the Hair', The Faraway Tree, Chennai
2010 'India Rising: Tradition Meets Modernity', presented by Ati Art Gallery at Varya, New Delhi
2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1999 'Contemporary Indian Art', presented by Maya Gallery at Air Gallery, London.
1999 Small Format Works Art Today, New Delhi
1997 'Southern Stars', Art World, Chennai.
1997 'Chennai Four', Art Today, New Delhi
1997 'Human Form and Art', Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
1997 'Figurative Abstractions', The Easel Art Gallery, Chennai
1997 'Twelve', An Exhibition of Comtemporary Indian Artists Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala
1995 'Diverse Perceptions', three man show at Surya Gallery, Hyderabad.
1995 'The Young Contemporaries', Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Joint Exhibitions
2000 'Heads and Tails', with Czech sculptor Peter Kavan at Easel Art Gallery, Chennai.
Participations
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
1998 Exhibition National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1998 National Exhibitions of Art Lalit Kala Akademi - New Delhi.
1998- 2000 Miniature Format Show Sans Tache Art Gallery - Mumbai.
1999 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
2000 National Exhibition of Art Lalit Kala Akademi - Jaipur, New Delhi
1999 Cholamandal Artists Exhibition Cholamanda Art Gallery - Chennai
2001 Regional Art Exhibition at Lalit Kala Academy, Kochi
1997 Fifty years of Indian Independence Exhibition State Lalit Kala Akademi- Chennai
1992 National Exhibition of Art - Kerela
1992 Research Scholars Exhibition LKA-Chennai, Calcutta, New Delhi, Lucknow
Honours and Awards
1999 Charles Wallace Scholarship - U.K.
1995 Arnawaz Vasudev Scholarship
1991-92 Lalit Kala Akademi Research Grant
1997 State Award
1999 Charles Wallace Scholarship - U.K.
1995 Arnawaz Vasudev Scholarship
1991-92 Lalit Kala Akademi Research Grant
1997 State Award
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Circus
Acrylic and pigment
54.5 x 69 in
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...So I Told Her
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