HIMALI SINGH SOIN

b. 1987, India

Himali Singh Soin Biography

Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy.

In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss, and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. Her speculations are performed in audio-visual, immersive environments.

Her art has been shown at Khoj, Delhi, Serpentine Galleries, London, Anchorage Museum and the next Shanghai Biennale. Soin is currently writer-in-residence at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and received the Frieze Artist Award 2019. She is part of the curatorial team of Momenta Biennale 2021 in Montréal.

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GROUP EXHIBITION Threading Inwards CHAT | Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile 21 March–28 June 2026 Hong Kong

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Himali Singh Soin, As Grand As What (2020) (video still). © Himali Singh Soin 2022. Courtesy the artist.
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Himali Singh Soin, we are opposite like that (2019) (still). Courtesy the artist.
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Himali Singh Soin, we are opposite like that (2018–2019) (video still). © Himali Singh Soin 2022. Courtesy the artist.
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Himali Singh Soin, we are opposite like that (2017–2022). Commissioned by Forma Arts, Frieze and Channel 4 Random Acts. Performance view: Block Universe at Quoz Arts Fest, Dubai (23–24 January 2021). Photo: Jandri Angelo Aguilor.
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Exhibition view: Himali Singh Soin with music by David Soin Tappeser, The Third Pole, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (25 October 2022–29 January 2023). Photo: Roberto Ruiz | TBA21.
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Himali Singh Soin, static range (2020) (still). Courtesy the artist.
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Himali Singh Soin in Ocula Magazine

Opinion Soft Power: When Textiles Become Compelling Storytellers Shanyu Zhong The softness of the materials on display in group exhibition Threading Inwards at Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile belies the hard truth of the stories told by the works themselves.

Spotlight / Photolog Desert X 2023, Coachella Valley Eleven artists present poetic and immersive works at this year’s Desert X, where works respond to climate change, economic challenges, and social transformations. They include billboards by Tyre Nichols, a woman on horseback by Tschabalala Self, and a car with monster claws by Paloma Contreras Lomas.

Spotlight Himali Singh Soin Explores the Third Pole Alexis Rider Far from penguins and polar bears, the Himalayas are part of another icy region critical to the planet’s future. With a new solo exhibition in Madrid, Himali Singh Soin uses the idea of a ‘third pole’ to banish binary thinking and embrace the infinite.

Conversation Himali Singh Soin's Planetary Practice Cleo Roberts Winner of the 2019 Frieze Artist Award and Whitechapel Gallery Writer in Residence, Himali Singh Soin on the porosity of image and text.

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