About:
Lekha Singh has traveled the globe for over 25 years, creating art that expresses the commonality of human experience by finding startling and impossible beauty in poor, little known places of destitution and desolation. She works in several mediums including film and photography.
Solo Exhibitions:
Weeds Series Eric Buterbaugh Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015
Nomadic Camera ADC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014
Created Equal SPARC, Venice, CA 2012
Heroes of Imagination Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth, TX 2009
African Journeys Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth, TX 2006
The Other Half: Women in Focus Women’s Museum of Dallas 2006
Nomadic Camera The National Arts Club, New York, NY 2006
Photography of Lekha Singh Patagonia Co. Ventura, CA 2005
African Journeys Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art 2004
Museum Collections:
Rubin Museum of Art, New York
Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
Films:
Producer, Co-director “Beyond Right and Wrong, Stories of Justice and
Forgiveness.” Shown around the world and won many awards amongst which are Best Avant Garde Film by American Psychological Association, Best Documentary Film at Fingal Film Festival and Runner-up for Best Documentary at LA Jewish Film Festival. 2012
Executive Producer, “The Square”, was Oscar nominated and also won several Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Directing, Cinematography and Picture
Editing. Received the Directors Guild of America. 2013
Executive Producer, “Food Chains”, which won many awards including the James Beard Award for Specials and the most recent award being the Brit Doc Impact Award. 2014
Books:
Pop-Up Pianos.
The Making of an Activist.
Call to Love, In the Rose Garden with Rumi.
Bhutan.
Other Books:
National Geographic‘s The Other Side of War: Woman’s Stories of Survival and Hope. With Susan Meiselas and Sylvia Plachy.