AGO Artist-in-Residence: Meera Margaret Singh


Meera Margaret Singh is a Winnipeg born, Toronto-based photographer. While pursuing her degree in Photography at OCAD University, Meera began to explore the tension between documentary and fiction.

 
DateMonday, June 8, 2015 - 4:00am to Friday, July 31, 2015 - 4:00am

Website

http://www.ago.net/meera-margaret-singh

Location

Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West

Meera Margaret Singh is a Winnipeg born, Toronto-based photographer. With a background in anthropology and art history, Meera first became interested in photography as a documentary tool. While pursuing her degree in Fine Art at OCAD University (Photography), Meera began to explore the tension between documentary and fiction. She further seeks to represent fluidity (of culture, of gender, etc.), challenging the viewer to ask questions of her work. Through a succession of photographic series and more recently video works, Meera has questioned and interrogated cultural, physical, geographical, and emotional ideas of displacement and suspension. Meera has been selected as a scholarship winner and participant in the Magnum Workshop with international photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti and as a selected artist in an international residency with German photographer Thomas Struth at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts in Florida. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions and festivals throughout Canada and the United States

DateMonday, June 8, 2015 - 4:00am to Friday, July 31, 2015 - 4:00am

Website

http://www.ago.net/meera-margaret-singh

Location

Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West

Photograph of Meera Margaret Singh
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 4:00am to Friday, July 31, 2015 - 4:00am

Meera Margaret Singh is a Winnipeg born, Toronto-based photographer. With a background in anthropology and art history, Meera first became interested in photography as a documentary tool. While pursuing her degree in Fine Art at OCAD University (Photography), Meera began to explore the tension between documentary and fiction. She further seeks to represent fluidity (of culture, of gender, etc.), challenging the viewer to ask questions of her work. Through a succession of photographic series and more recently video works, Meera has questioned and interrogated cultural, physical, geographical, and emotional ideas of displacement and suspension. Meera has been selected as a scholarship winner and participant in the Magnum Workshop with international photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti and as a selected artist in an international residency with German photographer Thomas Struth at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts in Florida. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions and festivals throughout Canada and the United States

Venue & Address: 
Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West
Website: 
http://www.ago.net/meera-margaret-singh
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