Born in Kerala India, Tinu just completed her BA in fine arts at Lasalle College, Singapore. Works of Tinu Verghis ranges nomadically across practices associated with land art, body art, performance, video, sculpture, and photography.
Tinu is best known as India’s most sought after fashion model. She has graced the covers of many magazines such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Femina, New Woman etc. She has used her media visibility to voice her opinions on women’s rights in the fashion and entertainment industry in India. Tinu also experimented with acting in 2012 in Q’s Tasher Desh, in which she played the Oracle in this art house adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by Tagore.
She left her career at the pinnacle, to study art as a new channel to address social concerns that are close to her heart. Her art works constantly reflects the relationship between art and its relevance to the world she lives in.
Tinu with her partner and young son lives between Singapore where she studies and Goa where she runs an organic farm.
EXHIBITIONS:
Smells like Curry – A quest on gender, identity & race, Performance Art, at Kilo Dialogues, Kilo Lounge & Bar, Singapore 2015
WIP, Pressure Drop, Project Space, Lasalle College of the Arts 2015
Anemone, Light Installation, Wilkie Edge Mall, Singapore, 2014
BURN, Performance Art, Winstedt Lawn, Lasalle College of the Arts, 2014
Impermanence, ARTWALK, Little India, Singapore, for Singapore Tourism Board 2014
Tinu is best known as India’s most sought after fashion model. She has graced the covers of many magazines such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Femina, New Woman etc. She has used her media visibility to voice her opinions on women’s rights in the fashion and entertainment industry in India. Tinu also experimented with acting in 2012 in Q’s Tasher Desh, in which she played the Oracle in this art house adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by Tagore.
She left her career at the pinnacle, to study art as a new channel to address social concerns that are close to her heart. Her art works constantly reflects the relationship between art and its relevance to the world she lives in.
Tinu with her partner and young son lives between Singapore where she studies and Goa where she runs an organic farm.
EXHIBITIONS:
Smells like Curry – A quest on gender, identity & race, Performance Art, at Kilo Dialogues, Kilo Lounge & Bar, Singapore 2015
WIP, Pressure Drop, Project Space, Lasalle College of the Arts 2015
Anemone, Light Installation, Wilkie Edge Mall, Singapore, 2014
BURN, Performance Art, Winstedt Lawn, Lasalle College of the Arts, 2014
Impermanence, ARTWALK, Little India, Singapore, for Singapore Tourism Board 2014