John Singletary speaking at the opening of Anahata at the Delaware Contemporary in 2019
John Singletary is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of the Arts. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography as well as other institutional and private collections. He has exhibited at the Pennsylvania State Museum, LG Tripp Gallery, The James Oliver Gallery, The Sol Mednick Gallery and The Delaware Contemporary Museum. His work has been reviewed and/or featured in Lenscratch Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, the Od Review, Movers and Makers (WHYY) and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Singletary is also a contributing writer for The Photo Review Journal.
Anahata is a project in which Singletary worked in a directorial fashion in collaborating with dancers, costume designers, choreographers, theater performers, makeup artists and set technicians to create large scale, narrative photographs that reference classical painting, mythology and Jungian symbolism. The work is displayed on synchronized arrays of OLED light emitting panels in a darken gallery space set to original music by Matt Hollenberg and John Singletary. This series was a marked evolution for him artistically from being a traditional black and white fine art printer to creating elaborate installations by incorporating the use of OLED technology, original music and both spatial and lighting design to create immersive exhibition experiences.