Spirituality is the cornerstone of his paintings. Spirituality as a philosophy and as an amalgamation of Hindu ethics and Christian beliefs informs his works. But his art, at the same time, also exudes a contemporary sensibility.
D. Ebenezer Sunder Singh was born in 1966 at Tirunelveli, a town in Tamil Nadu, and grew up in the midst of age-old traditions, imbibing a great deal from the rich cultural milieu that surrounded him. He received his diploma in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts & Crafts in Chennai and a Merit Scholarship from the Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu
Ebenzer Sunder Singh is well known all over the country for his sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings. He has widely exhibited and won numerous accolades for himself ever since he started exhibiting as a professional artist in the early 1990`s. His paintings, with deep influence from elements of both Hinduism and Christianity pulsate with a sort of Indianness. They possess a strong, intuitive Indian character. His meditative works incorporate sort of translation of the mythology of the subcontinent. This is what makes Ebenezer's art rich in substance and meaning, making it universally appealing. Ebenezer likes to interpret what he has seen and experienced into a visual language that is enriched by his overflowing cache of personal and religious symbols. In his works we see the concepts of life and death, charity and sin, and pleasure and pain emerging with meanings and connotations that are sometimes so personal as to be alien to us, and therefore only comprehensible when looked at through the lens of Singh`s own psyche - which he is always ready to explain. He has also received the Lalit Kala Akademi research Grant (1991 - 92), Junior Fellowship of the Government of India (1995 - 96) and the Arnawaz Vasudev Scholarship (1995). He has been a teacher for many years at the Loyola Institute of Visual Communication, the Vijaya College of Fine Arts at Gadag, Karnataka, the Government College of Arts & Crafts, and the Hindustan Engineering College, both in Chennai.