Born in New Delhi in 1961, Dayanita Singh studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and later Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has held solo exhibitions of her work at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston, Recontres Arles in France, the Ikon Gallery of Birmingham, Gallery Nature Morte in New Delhi, Frith Street Gallery in London, Studio Guenzani in Milan, Gallery Chemould and Gallery Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Bombay. In addition, her works have been included in group exhibitions in such prestigious venues as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, London's Tate Modern, the Asia Society in New York, the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the Asian Arts Museum of San Francisco. In 2008, Ms. Singh was awarded a Robert Gardner Fellowship from the Harvard University Art Museums and also received the prestigious Prince Claus Award "for the outstanding quality of her images, for providing a complex and well-articulated view of contemporary India, and for introducing a new aesthetic into Indian photography". A major retrospective of Ms. Singh's photographs will open at the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid on January 19th, 2010, accompanied by a book to be co-published with Penguin India