Between the Flaws and the Form
Like every artist, I’m learning and growing with every success and every mistake. I’m too young in my practice to box myself into a genre or medium—let’s save that for the day I make my last piece.
Madhvee Deb is an Indian multidisciplinary artist who, after living in Africa, Australia, and Europe, now calls Singapore home. She creates conceptual image-based works that combine photography, video, and mixed media to explore identity, social constructs, impermanence, and memory.
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Raised in India, her early worldview was shaped by tradition and complex social dynamics. From 1998 to 2020, that perspective broadened as she navigated life on multiple continents and encountered diverse cultures firsthand - each showing rawness, resilience, and contrasting ideas of individuality and belonging. Now settled in Singapore since 2009, her practice continues to evolve, drawing from these diverse experiences.
Deb holds an Honours degree in Sanskrit, a language rich in history, philosophy, and ideas about perception and existence. Its focus on free thinking continues to influence her work. Her journey into fine arts, however, began later in life, after discovering photography nearly two decades ago - a medium that quickly became central to her practice.
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In the following years, she took various courses and spent years studying independently. In 2014, she formalised her training by studying Fine Arts at Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore, earning her MAFA from Goldsmiths University of London. Her diverse education, rooted in ancient philosophy and contemporary practice, continues to shape her creative language to this day.
Madhvee Deb is a recipient of the George Town Festival Grant (2018). She has held solo exhibitions at the George Town Festival (Malaysia) and Galleri Soho (Västerås, Sweden, 2019). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions internationally, including in Singapore, France, Malaysia, Sweden, and the USA. Madhvee has also spoken at platforms such as the Alliance Française de Singapour and the Milan Image Art & Design Fair, Singapore.
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Photography, Video & Visual Arts
Madhvee Deb is an Indian multidisciplinary artist who, after living in Africa, Australia, and Europe, now calls Singapore home. She creates conceptual image-based works that combine photography, video, and mixed media to explore identity, social constructs, impermanence, and memory.
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Raised in India, her early worldview was shaped by tradition and complex social dynamics. From 1998 to 2020, that perspective broadened as she navigated life on multiple continents and encountered diverse cultures firsthand - each showing rawness, resilience, and contrasting ideas of individuality and belonging. Now settled in Singapore since 2009, her practice continues to evolve, drawing from these diverse experiences.
Deb holds an Honours degree in Sanskrit, a language rich in history, philosophy, and ideas about perception and existence. Its focus on free thinking continues to influence her work. Her journey into fine arts, however, began later in life, after discovering photography nearly two decades ago - a medium that quickly became central to her practice.
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In the following years, she took various courses and spent years studying independently. In 2014, she formalised her training by studying Fine Arts at Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore, earning her MAFA from Goldsmiths University of London. Her diverse education, rooted in ancient philosophy and contemporary practice, continues to shape her creative language to this day.
Madhvee Deb is a recipient of the George Town Festival Grant (2018). She has held solo exhibitions at the George Town Festival (Malaysia) and Galleri Soho (Västerås, Sweden, 2019). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions internationally, including in Singapore, France, Malaysia, Sweden, and the USA. Madhvee has also spoken at platforms such as the Alliance Française de Singapour and the Milan Image Art & Design Fair, Singapore.
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