Lingam Brown (b. 1998) is an Indian-born contemporary artist based on Gadigal land, Sydney. His multidisciplinary practice is rooted in drawing and self-portraiture and unfolds across painting, sculpture, installation and performance to explore queer identity, gender fluidity and the tensions of living between Indian and Australian cultural worlds. Lingam draws from Indian miniature painting, Hindu mythology, Rajput histories and ritual practices alongside material processes such as hand-mixed pigments, natural dyes and traditional binding agents. These historically charged materials reference devotion, power, labour and colonial exchange, situating the body within layered cultural and political lineages. Masculine and feminine sensibilities merge into fluid figures shaped by absence, repetition and transformation, where the self remains porous, relational and continually becoming.

Lingam Brown completed Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW Art & Design in 2021. He was awarded the Ross Steele Fine Arts Prize at UNSW Galleries in 2021 and received the People’s Choice Award at FACE Unframed at Belconnen Arts Centre in 2020. Lingam has been a finalist in the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize across multiple years and has exhibited across Sydney and nationally, including at MCA, UNSW Galleries, Kudos Gallery, AD Space, Backspace Gallery at the University of Sydney, Belconnen Arts Centre, Gallery Lane Cove and Mounted ARI.