Anjum Singh

Anjum Singh (1967 – 17 November 2020) was an Indian artist whose works focused on urban ecology, environmental degradation, and her own struggles with cancer. Singh was the daughter of Indian artists Arpita Singh and Paramjit Singh.

Early life Singh was born to artists Arpita Singh and Paramjit Singh in New Delhi in 1967.

Career Singh noted the Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil as amongst her first artistic influences with her early works focusing on figurative motifs.

She was a recipient of the Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship for a residency at Gasworks Studios, London, in 2002–03 and had earlier also won an award at the Sahitya Kala Parishad's Yuva Mahotsava in 1991. was autobiographical with her depiction of her own body and her illness due to cancer. The paintings used oil on mixed media. In a review The Hindu mentioned, "It is one of the most well-hung exhibitions of the season, presenting dramatic views of individual paintings and compelling groupings of works on paper."

Some of her works included Bleed Bled Blood Red (2015), Heart (Machine) (2016), and Blackness (2016). Singh died from cancer on 17 November 2020 in New Delhi, aged 53.