Vaidehi Rajasingam
was born in 1969 and had her initial education in Jaffna at Hindu
Primary School and Hindu Ladies College. To pursue her interest
in painting she left for India where she underwent training in the
Lalamandir School of Art in Bangalore. She completed a five-year
program of drawing and painting and graduated in 1996 obtaining
a diploma. She subsequently enrolling in a Bachelor of Fine Arts
program in graphic art at the University of Bangalore in India and
graduated in 1999 obtaining a BFA specializing in Graphic Art.
Vaidehi Rajasingam has had many exhibitions to her credit. In
1981, she took part in the UN Day art competition conducted by
the Lions Club of Jaffna, Sri Lanka where she won the first prize.
She was a participant at the Young Contemporaries Exhibition organized
by the George Keyt Foundation in 1991. She exhibited her work
in the Dasara Exhibition held in India in 1992 where her work
secured the second prize. She also won the first prize at the
Chitrakala exhibition held in India in 1999. Apart from these,
she has participated in numerous school and college exhibitions
in Sri Lanka and India between 1981 and 1999. She has also attended
printing workshops organized by the Lalit Kala Akademi in India.
While in India, she also worked as a teacher and resource person
at the annual graphic art and sculpture workshops at Nirmal’s
Art Workshop, an educational institution for visual arts in Delhi,
India.
