Kuldeep Singh (elected in 2024) is an artist based in New York and Seattle whose interdisciplinary practice is strongly influenced by a decade-long training in Indian classical dance of Odissi under the tutelage of Madhavi Mudgal. Kuldeep’s current work reinterprets the historic Ragamala paintings through a queer and ecological lens, weaving together deconstructed elements into a rich tapestry of speculative narratives. Kuldeep holds a BFA in Fine Arts from the College of Art, Delhi University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and Residency Unlimited. He was awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Dance Fellowship and the National Freedom of Expression Award from Mumbai’s Infinity Films. His work has been shown at the Asia Society Museum (NY), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (New Delhi), Knockdown Center (NY), Gallery Chemould Colab (Mumbai) among others. And forthcoming this year he will be showing at the Brooklyn Museum, and at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo in 2025. Kuldeep has been a visiting critic at NYU and RISD. And presently as an artist/faculty in residence at University of Washington, Seattle.