Vernika Singh (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Delhi. Completely self-taught, Singh’s practice revolves around the themes of ‘dynamism in movement’, ‘stillness’ and ‘embodiment’. Spanning nearly a decade, her works have found place in over 250 corporate and private collections around the world, including Ernst & Young, NMACC, Haleon, Husch Blackwell and NinedotArts.

The idea of dynamism has long informed her artistic language. Through sculpture, she attempts to capture the fleeting energy of movement and translate it into form. Her early explorations of movement emerged through human figures — athletes caught mid-stride or dancers suspended in graceful motion.

Her engagement with dynamism evolved further through installation-based works. The subject of these installations — the balloon — appeared at once entirely different yet intrinsically connected to the human figure. Singh perceived floating balloons almost as dancing bodies in space. Their lightness and constant interaction with air and movement embody for her a distinct sense of energy and joy. The way wind guides and animates them continues to inform her understanding of dynamism.

Over time, her inquiry into the moving body gradually extended towards moments of stillness, balance and introspection, leading her to create a significant body of works inspired by yoga and meditative postures.

She works across a range of materials including bronze, brass, aluminium, stainless steel, marble and fiberglass. Her works inspired by yoga and stillness led her towards a more introspective engagement with the body. What she explores in her recent sculptures and paintings is the idea of embodiment, and the ways women inhabit their bodies.

Vernika Singh’s recent explorations revolve around the idea of embodiment and the ways women inhabit their bodies. Through sculpture and painting, she examines the female body not merely as a physical form, but as a space shaped by memory, lived experience and socio-cultural conditioning. Her inquiry is deeply introspective — an attempt to look within and understand how the body absorbs, carries and negotiates emotion, vulnerability, restraint, awareness and presence.

Moving beyond the visible language of movement and gesture, these works engage with quieter psychological and emotional terrains. Drawing from personal observations and lived experiences, Singh approaches the female body as a site of internal dialogue — where control and release coexist simultaneously. Her practice increasingly reflects a shift from observing the body in motion to understanding the inner realities of inhabiting.