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About Artist SinGh
Artist Gurmej Singh is an American artist, philanthropist, showman, businessman, entertainer and a magician. He is credited for promoting stunt paintings, drip art and combining a extreme stunts and painting.

Although Singh characterizes himself as “The World’s Best Parallel Processing Stunt Painter”,  he enjoys the boldly colored drip paintings that he creates using a technique he calls “No-Touch”. Singh paints in different mediums and styles but his favorite is stunt painting. During the painting process he performs a plethora of stunts; from standing atop a driver-less moving car to being suspended or inverted from a crane.

In 2009 at the ArtPrize contest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Artist Singh set two world records riskin g personal injury and possible death to inspire others to not give up on their dreams. The two records that he made were the world’s largest wooden easel and the world’s largest stunt painting. Singh was told he could not perform on city property. These extremely dangerous stunts were executed after he was able to convince the premier venue, the B.O.B., to set up his 75-foot easel in their adjacent parking lot.

Artist Singh who is known for conceptualization hung the “smoking bomb” in the parking lot at 20 Monroe Avenue in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He endured 24-hours outside in the cold suspended by a 4 story crane balancing atop an 12’ x 12’ x 12’ bomb. The project “the International Peace Bomb” soon raged into controversy when a bullet passed by him. In 1999, he made the world record for longest painting with a 1000 meter painting (over 3280 feet) in Dubai, U.A.E. The Veterans Bridge in Emporia was closed for two days to exhibit Singh’s paintings.

Artist statement

Having been born in India-a country with thousands of cultural influences; growing up in the east; living in the US; I find myself as a global citizen who is intertwined with global cultural diversity. Art has provided me with means for the spirit of freedom. And this freedom helps me find my identity as a person. I want to put enough effort into the projects I do to increase my own potential as an artist. I have put many hours in the studio and outside in the open simply challenging myself. I have found myself working in all circumstances: buried alive, standing on a tall pole for days, backward cycling, atop a bridge, even jumping from building to add difficulty. It symbolizes the struggle that needs to exist for culture and science to progress at higher levels.

–Artist Singh