A resonance, which one take along.

Something of an inner journey, which stirs.

It’s all there, just to experience.

Not invoking any deity or a God, but the body and the divine within - celebrating the complexity of life, its nature and the abundance that there is - both out and within, Kuldeep brings his vision on the dance form of Odissi in this new body of work.

Passed from countless generations of gurus to disciples and travelled through centuries, and yet remaining profound and contemporary, the ever flowing river of Odissi transfers its power to each generation of artists.

From being a visual, to a serious student of Indian philosophy and then learning Odissi dance, Kuldeep brings his transference of the form, that he studied intensively for years with Madhavi Mudgal in New Delhi, along with his art practice.

Situated in the the world of contemporary art, yet he returns back, time and again to the compound expression of Odissi, because it is both a lifestyle and compound expression in movement, storytelling, sculpture and architecture - with its ever freshness and grounding experience which a human life craves for.

It is this journey, a distributary, that Kuldeep brings.

And the many journeys, within.

Kuldeep Singh is a multi-disciplinary artist with a hybrid artistic practice, comprising a system of non-linear narratives in visual art and performance. Through inventing situations in theatrical installations and hybrid myths, he surveys hiatuses in post-colonial histories. With his intensive, decade long training in the Indian classical dance form of Odissi (with critically acclaimed dancer Madhavi Mudgal, in New Delhi) he deconstructs components in movement and acting, sound/percussion mnemonics and spatial arrangements – all as re-arranged fragments in layers, engaging in body politics and social anthropology. The content transpires from eclectic stories across timelines, classic Sanskrit texts, and is layered to contemporary human situations – re emphasizing contemporary relevances.

Kuldeep is the recipient of some of the prestigious art residencies including: the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2014), Yaddo, NY (2015) and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, NE (2016); and has recently been artist in residence at Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn (2018) and at HH Art Spaces, Goa (2018) – on an award from Inlaks Foundation, Mumbai. He recently has been awarded the highly competitive New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2018), in interdisciplinary arts category. Kuldeep holds the National Freedom of Expression Award, Mumbai (2009, Infinity Films). His selected solo performances include at the Kolkata International Performance Festival (2014), Yaddo (2015) and Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival in Chicago (2016), La Mama Theater, NYC (2016), and most recently at Asia Society, NYC (2018) to name a few. His selected lectures & demonstrations include at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art – New Delhi, Queens Museum – NYC, Delhi University, University College London, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska-Omaha and Hunter College, NYC.