Building Books with Dayanita Singh

Co-presented by Brown Arts Institute and History of Art and Architecture

October 1–December 20, 2026
Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

Opening Reception: October 1, 2026, 5:30 PM

Don't miss this thoughtful exhibition curated by the students in Professor Holly Shaffer's Museum of Possibilities fall 2025 Practicum course. The show takes cues from Dayanita Singh’s artist-led approach to exhibitions that explores the relationship between "making” and “reading.” Using Singh’s Book Building (2022) as a blueprint, students analyzed book-making as an artistic practice, material form, and conceptual process. 

Congratulations to the student curators: Miranda Cuozzo, Anna Douglas, Benet Ge, Nida Jaffer, Monaye Johnson, Verda Karaoğlu, Luvuyo Nyawose, Tristan Whalen, Chuyu Xiong, Joey Young, and Ray Zhang. 

Thank you 

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is grateful for the generous support of the seminar and exhibition by the Brown Arts Institute and the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia.

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