Meghna Singh is a visual artist and researcher with a PhD in visual anthropology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work examines colonial and capitalist legacies through decolonial approaches. Working with installation, performance and XR, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction she creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’. Her interest lies in creating public installations that activate spaces while highlighting colonial and capitalist legacies. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark and a National Geographic Explorer.
She co-created The Founder’s Pillars, a site-responsive AR memorial, in collaboration with Simon Wood and Lesiba Mabitsela. The project premiered at the Tribeca Festival 2025 and won the ST ARTS Prize Africa Award of Distinction. Her previous project Container co-directed with Simon Wood, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and has showcased internationally. It became the first VR film to be invited by the Nobel Prize Society to screen at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg 2021.
She is currently co directing of ‘The Four Floors of Faneuil’ Hall, along with Simon Wood which they developed at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.