Seminars & learning
Academic participation includes an in-depth study course in Varanasi in 2009 and national seminars in 2010 and 2011.
The record also notes paper presentations related to art, society, culture and visual practice.
Scholarship & pedagogy
Research and Teaching
An academic practice shaped by painting, cultural memory and the exchange of ideas in the classroom and studio.
Doctoral focus
Where images become ideas
Myth and Fantasy in Modern Indian Painting
Dr. Reena Singh's research considers how artists use visual language to approach narrative, imagination and cultural tradition. It places the act of painting beside critical inquiry: not only what an image depicts, but what it remembers, transforms and communicates.
- Why does an artist return to a particular story?
- How can an imagined form express an idea?
- What changes when a familiar subject enters a new visual setting?
These questions provide a continuing context for her academic work and engagement with contemporary Indian painting.
Teaching tenure
2011–2015
5 years
Classroom & studio pedagogy
Teaching through looking, making and conversation
As a Post Graduate Teacher at Happy Model School, Varanasi, Dr. Singh guided students through explanation, demonstration and sustained studio practice.
Her approach treats art education as a gradual development of each student's own way of seeing—building confidence through questions, material exploration and thoughtful critique.
Academic record
Learning, writing and exchange
Selected areas of participation from the available academic record.
Published writing
Published articles include writing on imagination and fantasy in art, extending the concerns of the studio into scholarly reflection.
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Academic & research collaborations