Muskaan Singh Indian, b. 1991
"The Space118 Fine Art Grant offers valuable support for developing your practice with both freedom and focus. It provides not just financial help, but also time, mentorship, and a supportive environment to experiment and grow. For future applicants, it is a great opportunity to deepen your ideas, take risks, and engage meaningfully with your work."
Muskaan Singh (b.1991, Purnea, Bihar, India) received a BFA, College of Arts & Crafts, Patna University, Patna (2014) and MFA, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida (2018).
Her works have been exhibited at an MFA solo exhibition at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida (2018). Her works have been exhibited at group exhibitions at Gallery 27, Kochi (2024); Apre Art House, Mumbai (2024); Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023, 2021); Shahpur Jat, New Delhi (2022); Garden Project, London (2020); Priyasari Art Gallery, Mumbai (2020); Godrej India Culture Lab, Mumbai (2020); Sala Rekalde Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (2019); Gallery OED, Kochi (2019); and the Italian Culture Center, New Delhi (2018).
Singh’s artistic practice draws from folk literature, humor, and vernacular idioms to explore women’s roles in labour. Rooted in village life and cultural memory, her work reflects on the socio-political tensions of contemporary urban existence.
Muskaan lives and works in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Mentor:
Brahma Prakash
Proposed Project:
The King of the Mountain
Project Overview:
Through her project, Muskaan drew references from folk literature and vernacular idioms to comment on the sociopolitical tensions of urban existence through a feminine lens, especially through the folk tales of Raja Salhesh, the King of the mountains, whose stories come from Mithila in Bihar.
