THE ESTATE OF RAGHUBIR SINGH
1942-1999, IndiaRaghubir Singh (b.1942, Jaipur–d.1999, New York. Lived and worked in India, Paris, London, and New York) explored the creative possibilities of photography at a time when the medium was both unpopular and largely ignored. Singh lived and worked in Paris, London, and New York, but made his best-known work in his homeland. Over thirty years he captured India and the infinite richness and variety of its people, places and customs. Widely published in books and mag-azines and exhibited worldwide, Singh is celebrated as a pioneer in the use of colour in photography and experimental composition.
His work has been in many solo and group exhibitions, including Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur (2024); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2022); Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario (2018); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2018); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018); Barbican Art Gallery (2012); Art Institute of Chicago (1999); National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (1998); National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (1998).
Singh’s work forms part of many public collections, including Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Los Angeles; Metropol-itan Museum of Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Musée Guimet, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Photography, Bradford; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Williams College Museum of Art, Wil-liamstown; Yale University Art Museum, New Haven.
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