Kavita Singh obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at Lady Shri Ram College, her MFA in 1987 from M.S.
[1] Singh was appointed to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 2001, where she was a co-founder of the internationally recognized School of Art and Aesthetics.
She was also a research editor for Marg Publications, and a visiting guest curator at the San Diego Museum of Art, during which time she co-curated the exhibition Power and Desire: South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art, Edwin Binney 3rd Collection.
[6] From 2009–2012 she was a partner at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz of the Max Planck Society with Professor Dr. Gerhard Wolf and Hannah Baader for a project called The Temple and the Museum: Sites for Art in India.
[1] In her acceptance speech, she joked that her presence at the ceremony was illegitimate as her leave from JNU to visit Bangalore had not been approved.