Anya Singh is a freshman attending University of Michigan—Ann Arbor with an intended focus on Biology, Health, and Society and a double minor in Art and Design and in Social Class and Inequality studies. She’s been a practicing visual artist for the past 11 years, most recently under the tutelage of Kriti Taneja. Anya’s work, influenced by social, political and cultural issues, is heavily commentative and reactionary. Believing in the importance of imbuing her work with her political views and biases, her work comes together to provide insight into her perspective. As a artist concerned with social justice, Anya has delved into movements like #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #TimesUp, and more specifically has explored cultural and judicial practices across domestic borders, such as in India regarding child marriage, LGBTQIA+ rights, and female autonomy. As she creates, she seeks to understand narratives, bringing stories to life on paper, canvas, and other media. Specifically in portraiture, she focuses on creating confluences of narrative and representational reality while empowering the underrepresented. As an artist, she has been invited to prestigious programs such as the Instagram Counter-Speech Fellowship, and has been recognized by Scholastic for her work in painting, drawing, mixed media, and political cartoons. In 2019, she won the New York Times Editorial Cartoon Contest and was subsequently published.
You can contact Anya after the show using her email anyas@umich.edu, and her art instagram is @anya_singh_art
Video/Audio edited by Hyuntae Choi
Intro music by Marco Jimenez
