KANCHANA GUPTA

Kanchana Gupta is a contemporary visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculptur installation, photography, and video.
Moving from India to Singapore, her work is deeply informed by the personal and social pressures of migration, urbanisation, and gendered experience.
Her practice engages materiality as both subject and method, examining how everyday substances carry social histories and psychological residues. She
subjects materials like paint, jute, tarpaulin, lace, vermillion, henna, silk, and sandalwood to rigorous physical acts of tearing, burning, stretching, piercing, and compression. Through these intense interventions, familiar materials are displaced from their inherited contexts and reconstituted, revealing
layers, scars, and residues that foreground the tension between permanence and loss.

Gupta received her Bachelor’s degree from Patna Women’s College, where she was awarded a Gold Medal, and later completed her Master of Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. A 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist, her solo exhibitions include FOLDED PIERCED STRETCHED (2022) and 458.32 Square Meters (2019) at Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore; Traces and Residues at Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore (2017); and Identity II at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2011). Her work has also been presented internationally at the Fukutake House Asian Gallery in Shodoshima, Japan.
Kanchana Gupta lives and works in Singapore.