Amar Singh
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| Born | Kanwar Amar Jit Singh 14 June 1989 London, England, UK |
| 🏫 Education | St John's Beaumont School Charterhouse School |
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| Known for | LGBT & women's rights activism, art gallerist |
Amar Singh (born 14 June 1989) is a British art gallerist and human rights activist, focused on LGBT+ and women's rights.[1][2] He is the founder of Amar Gallery.[3]
Education[edit]
Singh was educated at St John's Beaumont School and Charterhouse School. He attended classes at Harvard University,[4] though left without earning a degree.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
In 2016 Singh set up a feminist art gallery called Amar Gallery in London.[5] The gallery exhibited the work of female artists and feminists including the Guerrilla Girls, Helen Frankenthaler, and Renee Cox.[3][6][7] Singh closed his north London gallery's location in April 2019 and continues to exhibit internationally and online. The gallery has held physical exhibitions around Africa including South Africa,[8] and Nigeria.[9]
In 2019, Singh had stated his "next venture", set to open October 2019, was Curated Golden Square, described by Vanity Fair as a "$100 million, 30,000 square foot apartment hotel". "From art business to hotel business", said Forbes.[10][7] While 37 Golden Square appears to have been redeveloped with 30,000 square feet, the site was developed by Halamar,[11] and there is no evidence of an art gallery or developer associated with Singh.
Philanthropy[edit]
In 2021 Singh pledged to donate $5 million worth of art by female, LGBTQ and minority artists to museums worldwide by 2025.[12][13] In January 2021, Singh donated a painting worth six figures celebrating women by the artist María Berrío to Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[12] and a portrait of inaugural poet Amanda Gorman to Harvard University's permanent collection, valued at £8,000.[14][12]
Activism[edit]
Singh has worked alongside the LGBT+ community in India to fight for equal rights and through his gallery has also mounted LGBT+ exhibitions including Links by artist Howard Tangye and Section 377, an online exhibition celebrating the road to India legalising homosexuality. India struck down the Section 377 law in 2009 which criminalized homosexuality.[15][1]
In 2013, the Indian government reversed its decision and reinstated Section 377 which made same-sex relations illegal.[15] Singh alongside other activists, called for the Indian government to strike down Section 377.[1] Singh has said that he spoke out publicly and in the press against the government's ruling.[16]
Singh was one of many campaigners who made up a global coalition that scored a legal victory in India when the Supreme Court of India, on 6 September 2018, struck down the Section 377 law and legalized homosexuality,[17] ruling that the application of Section 377 to consensual homosexual sex between adults was unconstitutional, "irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary."[18][19]
Alongside Prince Manvendra and other LGBT+ activists, Singh has called for the Indian government to legalize same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, and the banning of all LGBT conversion therapy practices.[1][5]
Singh regularly speaks publicly about issues related to women's rights, LGBT+ rights and art.[16] In July 2019 Singh spoke at the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute's Annual Future Leaders Conference, held at the Russell Senate Office Building, about women's rights and how communities are impacted through art and culture.[12][20]
Singh is UK ambassador for the Andrea Bocelli Foundation.[21][22]
Ancestry and personal life[edit]
Singh was born and raised in London, UK.[23][24] He is a descendent of Raja Nihal Singh of Kapurthala.[25] In 2017 he was 16th in line to the former throne of Kapurthala.[26]
Awards and recognition[edit]
- 2019: Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 - Europe - for contributions to art and culture[27]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bullock, Andrew (10 August 2020). "Amar Singh: "I don't know why we have to fight so hard for equal rights!"". Gay Times. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ocamb, Karen (30 November 2017). "Indian Royal Amar Singh on a mission for equality". Los Angeles Blade. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hawgood, Alex (3 October 2017). "The Indian Prince Who Supports Gay Rights and the Arts (Published 2017)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bullock, Andrew (2017-08-21). "Indian royal tells Attitude about the 'underground army' battling for LGBT+ rights in India". Attitude (magazine). Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Oppenheim, Maya (12 February 2018). "India's only openly gay prince is turning his pink palace into a centre for vulnerable LGBT+ people". The Independent. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hawgood, Alex (2017-10-03). "The Indian Prince Who Supports Gay Rights and the Arts (Published 2017)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 Bullock, Andrew (19 June 2019). "Amar Singh's Curated Quest for Equality". Vanity Fair (magazine). Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Visser, Stacey. "Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2018". Business Media MAGS. Retrieved 2021-05-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Barnes, Ekow (2021-03-19). "The Culture List: Four Exciting Art Installations Celebrating Womanhood". EBONY. Retrieved 2021-05-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Baker, Sam (29 June 2019). "The (Male) Art Entrepreneur Exhibiting Female Artists". Forbes. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Creating the home of the future now". Kone. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Bullock, Andrew. "The Art of Amar Singh's Activism". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ↑ "A tale of Churchill, Roosevelt — and Angelina Jolie". Financial Times.
- ↑ Onwuamaegbu, Natachi. "'This work must be in an institution.' Amanda Gorman portrait gifted to Harvard - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Bullock, Andrew (21 August 2017). "Indian royal tells Attitude about the 'underground army' battling for LGBT+ rights in India". Attitude (magazine). Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 16.0 16.1 Bullock, Andrew (5 June 2018). "Indian royal Amar Singh on his crusade against LGBTQ repression in his native country". Gay Times. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rajagopal, Krishnadas (7 September 2018). "SC decriminalises homosexuality". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Thomas, Maria. "Timeline: The struggle against section 377 began over two decades ago". Quartz (publication). Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Barrie, Thomas. "Vanity Fair's Pick of Frieze Week in London". Vanity Fair (magazine). Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "CHLI Conference Connects Future Leaders to the Real World". Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute.
- ↑ "Organization". ABF. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ↑ "Ardent Aesthete: In Conversation With Amar Singh". Verve (Indian magazine). 2 January 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bullock, Andrew (2017-08-21). "Indian royal tells Attitude about the 'underground army' battling for LGBT+ rights in India". Attitude (magazine). Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ocamb, Karen (2017-11-30). "Indian Royal Amar Singh on a mission for equality". Los Angeles Blade. Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Why This 31-Year-Old Gallerist Is Partnering With Christie's To Auction NFTs". Forbes. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ↑ "Meet the 27-year-old Indian royal who just opened the hottest gallery in London". Elle (India). Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ↑ Sternlicht, Alexandra; Baker, Samantha; McGrath, Maggie. "30 Under 30 Europe 2019: Art & Culture". Forbes. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Unknown parameter
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