EDUCATION
2012 - 2015 MFA in Painting and Intermedia, University of Iowa (Full Scholarship)
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (Full Scholarship)
2005 - 2012 Indian classical dance of Odissi, with critically acclaimed choreographer Madhavi Mudgal, New Delhi
2003 - 2007 BFA in Applied Arts, College of Art, Delhi University
RESIDENCIES
2021 New Dance Alliance (Satellite Residency), Manhattan, NYC
2020 LES Studio Program, Manhattan, NY
2018 Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2018 HH Arts Spaces, Goa, India
2016 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE
2015 OMI International, NY
2015 Yaddo, NY
2011 Tellus Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Bishkek Art Centre, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, NYC
2021 Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant, NYC
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, NYC
2020 South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund Fellowship, India Center Foundation, NYC
2018 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (interdisciplinary artist category), NYC
2018 Inlaks Foundation Award, Mumbai
2015 Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, NYC [Finalist]
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
2014 Mildred Pelzer Fellowship, IA
2009 National - Freedom of Expression Award, Infinity Films, Mumbai
2009 Lalit Kala Academy, emerging artist category, New Delhi
2004 Swapan Biswas Award, Delhi University, New Delhi
INVITED PRESENTATIONS and SELECTED LECTURES
2022 Dancing with the Indian Art - exploring South Indian literature through visual art, music and dance.
- curated by Dr. Francesca Cassio, Hofstra University, NY
2021 Artist's lecture (online) for Foundation Studies Students at MICA, Maryland - with Sangram Majumdar.
2020 Miracle Marks - presentation with performance with Purvi Shah's book reading, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2020 American Dream Redux - panel presentation, Asian American Arts Alliance, NYC
2019 Odissi Odyssey - lecture and dance performance at International Education Week, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
2018 Lecture on changing aesthetics in Sikhism in England and US, Mercy College, Bronx Campus
2018 Presentation at Architecture+Design Adda, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2017 Aesthetics of surface design in Indian textiles, of last 300 years, Hunter College, NYC (Department of Theater)
2016 Lecture Demonstration with performance in exploring the Kronos Collection of Indian Miniatures, Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
(In collaboration with curator and cultural presenter Rajika Puri)
2016 Visiting artist’s lecture, University of Nebraska, Omaha
2015 Movement and Mediation, Queens Museum, NYC
2015 The Idea of Land and Landscape in Odissi, Yaddo, NY
2014 Sari Convention - Inter-relativity in India music and textiles, South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa, USA
2013 Sensual and the Spiritual - lecture with dance on 13th c. Sanskrit Love Poetry, University of Iowa, USA
2013 Lecture demonstration in Odissi, Spic Macay India chapter at University College London, United Kingdom
SOLO SHOWS (curated)
2022 Untitled project (rescheduled), Asia Society Musuem, NYC (TBA)
2019 SO MANY JOURNEYS, new choreographies in Odissi dance, Englert Theater, Iowa City
2019 THROUGH THE KĀLI-EROS, immersive performance with objects in installation, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NYC
2018 RE-IMAGINING INDIAN DANCE: MOVING FORWARD, Asia Society, NYC
2017 ARCHITECTONICS OF DISPERSION \ immersive acts and objects, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn
2015 STRUCTURE IS WHAT I SPEAK Of, Installation Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2014 NOLI ME TANGERE, immersive performance in installation with directed performers, Levitt Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2014 AND THOUSAND EYES, Performance with directed collaborators, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
2014 OF MOONS & TORSOS, drawing based performance, Porch Gallery, Iowa City
2011 PREVIEW: KULDEEP SINGH, Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance de Francaise, New Delhi
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS (curated)
2021-22 E/MERGE: ART OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA, National Indo American Museum, Chicago
2021 ENDLESS STATE, curated by Xinyi Cheng, Yui Kugimiya and Jagdeep Raina for Skowhegan, NY
2020 NRITTA SINGULARITY (short film), curated by Himanshu Verma, Chaumasa Monsoon Festival, Jaipur, India
2020 ARCHITECTONICS OF DISPERSION, online showcase of short digital film, CADAF online, NYC/ Miami
2018 THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES, curated by Rachel Cooper, performance for The Progressives Show, Asia Society Museum, NYC
2018 GARDEN OF SKIN, curated by Zachari Logan, at Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2018 PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL:32 for New Dance Alliance, University Settlement, NYC
2018 RE: ART SHOW 21, curated by Efrem Zelony Mindell, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NYC
2018 LOVE 2018 - PURPLE HEARTS, curated by Rachel Stern, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NYC
2017 FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH, curated by Tina Croll/ Jamie Cunningham, Celebrating a Century of Indian Dance in America,
Theater Y at 14th street, NYC
2016 PADMA-STHANA, Panoply Laboratory, Brooklyn
2016 PRINCE OF DANCE, curated by Navatman, Drive East Festival, La Mama Theatre, NYC
2016 NOLI ME TANGERE II, 5th Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival, Chicago
2016 EXPLORING MANASOLLASA, performance showcase, Queens Museum, NYC
2015 STATIC/MOVEMENT, performance in installation, Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh, India
2015 NAAPAN II, 3rd Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Calcutta, India
2014 SPEAK PARROT SPEAK, at I TALK THE ZIGGURAT, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 SKOWHEGAN PERFORMS, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC
2014 TINYSOME, Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting
2014 CONIC at TINY TEN, curated by Esther Baker Tarpaga, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 SANKEERNA JAGATĪ and NAAPAN, 2nd Kolkata International Performance Arts Festival, Calcutta, India
2012 CONSTRUCTION OF LOSS, curated by Himali Singh Soin, Gallery Exhibit 320, New Delhi
2009 NAVSAR Annual Show, curated by Amit Kumar Jain and Ambika Jain, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Ctr+Alt+Dlt, curated by Amit Kumar Jain, Gallery Stainless Steel, New Delhi
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015 TALK THE TEMPLE, co-curated with Heidi Wiren Bartlett, collaborative production of short acts, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 I TALK THE ZIGGURAT, interdisciplinary showcase of various short acts, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 AND THOUSAND EYES, collaborative performance. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
2014 TINYSOME, Performance Project. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2011 THE STORY COMPOUNDERS, Visual Art Show. L'institut supérieur des arts appliqués, New Delhi
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021 Guest Thesis Critic for Spring Semester, RISD, Rhode Island (with faculty Angela Dufresne and Dean Moss)
2021 Guest Critic for BFA final year thesis, New York University, NY (with faculty Howie Chen)
2012-2015 Elements of Art and Design (for non-majors) and Basic Drawing (for majors), University of Iowa, IA
2009-2012 Visiting faculty for Indian Aesthetics and Concepts, College of Art, Delhi University, New Delhi
2011-2012 Applied drawing for design, L'institut supérieur des arts appliqués, New Delhi
2010-2012 Drawing applications for design in problem solving, IILM School of Design, Gurgaon
SELECTED PRESS
Ariana Lessard, "Painting and drawing UI alum opens exhibition at National Indo-American Museum", The Daily Iowan, March 10, 2022
Pia Singh, "Being, Becoming, Belonging", international review, Art India, Volume 25, Issue 3, Quarter 3, 2022
Adrian Enzastiga, “Kuldeep Singh shines in Englert”, The Daily Iowan, April 27, 2019
Ayesha Singh, “Home is Where the Art is” The Sunday Standard Magazine, The Indian Express Group, New Delhi, March 3, 2019
Daniel Boscaljon, “Five questions with: Choreographer and dancer Kuldeep Singh”, Little Village, April 24, 2019
Julian A. Jimarez Howard, “Interview with Kuldeep Singh”, White Hot Magazine, March 2019
Kuldeep Singh, “ An Archive of Traditions: Kuldeep Singh’s Playlist, Art in America, November 28, 2018
Eric Sutphin,” First Look: Kuldeep Singh”, Art in America, November 1, 2018
Jeffrey Grunthaner, “Kuldeep Singh at Ortega y Gasset Projects”, White Hot Magazine, October 2017
Clay and Milk Contributor, “Review: [ sharp tongue, quiet lips ] at Yellow Door Gallery”, Clay and Milk, July 10, 2017
“Rabbit to chicken, earthen glasses to mirrors: all for art”, The Telegraph Online, Calcutta, India, January 2014
DESIGN AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2019 - present Book publication designs for represented artists solo shows, Totah (contemporary art gallery), NYC
2018 - 2019 Moving image design and production, for various lectures and series, The Polis Project (non profit), NYC
2018 Planning of visual/ moving image records for “Ruchira Gupta Archives” for Stanford University, CA acquisition (Apne Aap)
And, post production design for a short documentary: “Decriminalized Tribes of India”, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, NYC
2017 Yearbook design with production, Downtown Manhattan Community Television, Manhattan. NYC
2016 Artist's assistant to artist Christopher Myer, NYC
2011 Cultural Expertise to University of Iowa (Studio Arts Program), for Arts and Architectural program in South India
2009 Creative assistance for THE DREAM MUSEUM PROJECT, in collaboration with DEVI ART FOUNDATION & ASIA ART ARCHIVES,
Hong Kong and New Delhi
2008 Assistant researcher to Eminent Art Historian Benoy K. Behl, New Delhi
2007 Assistant, Vinita Chand Design Associates, New Delhi