Saturday, February 18, 2012

Arpita Singh

Arpita Singh is an Indian artist. She was born in West Bengal, India in 1937. Currently she lives in Nizamuddin East, New Delhi. She is married to Paramjit Singh and they have a daughter, the artist and socialite Anjum Singh

Singh attended the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic in New Delhi from 1954 to 1959. After she graduated she worked for the Indian Government's Cottage Industries Restoration Program. While she worked in the program she met traditional artists and weavers in India.In the 1970s her paintings were mainly black and white abstracts.