1961
Born in New Delhi, India

Selected Solo Exhibition
2011
House of Love, Peabody Museum, Boston
Dayanita Singh, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota
2010
Dream Villa, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Dayanita Singh, Mapfre Foundation, Madrid
2009
Blue Book, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2008
Ladies of Calcutta, Bose Pacia gallery, Calcutta
Sent a letter / Go Away Closer - Hermes traveling show New York, Berlin, Paris
2007
Go Away Closer, Kriti Gallery, Banaras
2006
Beds and Chairs, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome
2005
Chairs, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2004
Privacy, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles
2003
Dayanita Singh: Privacy, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Myself Mona Ahmed, Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin
2002
I am as I am, Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Galerie, Zurich
2001
Empty Spaces, Frith Street Gallery, London
2000
Demello Vado, Saligao Institute, Goa
1999
Mona Darling, Venezia Immagine, Venice
1998
Family Portraits, Nature Morte, New Delhi
1997
Images from the 90s, Scalo Galerie, Zurich

Selected Group Exhibition
2011
Illuminations, Venice Biennale, Venice
Paris - Delhi - Bombay, Pompidou Centre, Paris
2010
Today Art Museum, Beijing
2008
Blue series, Manifesta 7, Bolzano
Go Away Closer, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London
2007
Private / Corporate, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin
2006
Sub-Contingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
The Eighth Square, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
2005
Presence, Sepia International, New York
Edge of Desire, Asia Society, New York
2004
Ten Commandments, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2002
Red Light, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney
Kapital und Karma. Aktuelle Positionen indischer Kunst, Kunsthalle, Vienna
2000
Century City, Tate Modern, London
1999
Another Girl, Another Planet, Greenberg Gallery, New York
1997
Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, New York
1995
So many worlds - Photographs from DU Magazine, Holderbank, Aargau, Switzerland

Publication
Zakir Hussain, Himalayan Books, 1986
Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Verlag, 2001
Privacy, Steidl, 2003
Chairs, Steidl, 2005
Go Away Closer, Steidl, 2007
Sent a Letter, Steidl, 2008
Blue Book, Steidl, 2009
Dream Villa, Steidl, 2010
Dayanita Singh, Penguin studio and Mapfre Foundation, 2010
House of Love, Radius Books and Peabody museum Press, 2011