Born in Bombay, India in 1975, Shubigi Rao is now a permanent resident in Singapore. She obtained her MFA in 2008 from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, where she also obtained a BA Honours in Fine Arts (First Class) in 2006. She also has a BA (Hons) in English from Delhi University, 1996.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Winston Oh Travelogue (2005), the Student Development Award (2006), and the SIA Award for Excellence in the Arts for most outstanding student of the year (2006), and most recently, the Award for Academic Excellence (2008) for Postgraduate studies from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Her work has been exhibited widely in Singapore, Hong Kong and India, and some notable exhibitions include New Contemporaries: New Art from LASALLE-SIA (2005), Second Dance Song (part of the Singapore Biennale, 2006), Appetites for Litter: 8th Emerging Artists’ Show at Plastique Kinetic Worms (2006), and the Singapore Art Exhibition (Singapore Art Show, 2007). She is one of the artists selected for inclusion in the Singapore Biennale 2008.
She lectures part time at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Winston Oh Travelogue (2005), the Student Development Award (2006), and the SIA Award for Excellence in the Arts for most outstanding student of the year (2006), and most recently, the Award for Academic Excellence (2008) for Postgraduate studies from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Her work has been exhibited widely in Singapore, Hong Kong and India, and some notable exhibitions include New Contemporaries: New Art from LASALLE-SIA (2005), Second Dance Song (part of the Singapore Biennale, 2006), Appetites for Litter: 8th Emerging Artists’ Show at Plastique Kinetic Worms (2006), and the Singapore Art Exhibition (Singapore Art Show, 2007). She is one of the artists selected for inclusion in the Singapore Biennale 2008.
She lectures part time at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
'The Tuning Fork of the Mind' (in Singapore Biennale, 2008)Medium: Installation comprising objects, hand made books, etchings, drawings, brain-wave machine, single channel video etc.
Size: variable
Year: 2008
Detail from video set for 'Tuning Fork of the Mind'Year: 2008
Medium: set pieces
Size: Variable
Detail from 'The Tuning Fork of the Mind'Year: 2008
Medium: set pieces
Size: Variable
The River of Ink100 books with hand made content, dissolved in ink
Variable
2008
Detail from The River of Ink100 books with hand made content, dissolved in ink
Variable
2008
Page from SOWING DRAGON’S TEETHMixed media hand drawn book
2008
NO COVER, NO COLOURThree hand-bound books, limited edition of 30 each.
Second Dance Song:
New Contemporaries II, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
2006
Page from ECHOLOCATION OF A BOOK BY BORGESMixed media hand drawn book
2007
