Dhavinder Singh

Dhavinder Singh (b. 1983, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a Kuala Lumpur-based artist whose art practice, in essence, deals with the repurposing and reconfiguring of materials; be it through paintings, animation, assemblage and site- specific installations. Dhavinder finds himself still testing the parameters of his practice and the mediums he engages with. “On an emotional standpoint, my creative process is based on intuition,” he has said. “In my body of work, I tend to express and share a visual metaphor of my reaction based on a particular space and subject matter.” Bearing witness to the overdevelopment of Kuala Lumpur in the last few decades, Dhavinder’s deep affinity for the industrial area of Kuala Lumpur in which he grew up in — Chan Sow Lin — features prominently in his work. This is evident in his most recent solo exhibitions "Please Do Not Sit - A Show About Chairs" (2022) and “Tagistan” (2020), where elements of these interests, sense of aesthetics, and manipulation of space culminated in the :series’ engaging multidisciplinary nature. Other solo exhibitions include “Test Tanah” (2019), “Recollectus” (2017) and “MO: Formal(and)scapes“ (2014).