Anandajit was born in 1965, Kolkata
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, M. S. University, Baroda (1989)
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, M. S. University, Baroda (1991)
Anandajit Ray controlled formats recall diverse genres, from the miniature tradition to the comic strip. He laboriously creates this hybrid form which ultimately project on areas of adolescence: avenues of escape from a potentially dreary reality; desires materialized through the popular media.
Ray simultaneously explores the mundane, phantasmal, the ridiculous and the horrific. The seduction and intimacy offered by these themes, Far from being repelled, Ray is actually seduced by these themes' intimacy.Ray calls himself a 'surface painter', subscribing to a position abset of judgment. Incidents of illogical violence scattered over the surface of a painting therefore metamorphose into decorative detailing, finding complete acceptance in our minds.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 'I Fear, I Believe, I Desire', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2004 'For The Future XI', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003 'Fractured', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2000 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999 'S.M.T.W.T.F.S', Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda
1998 'Syrup', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1995 Eicher Gallery, New Delhi
1994 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 'KAAM' Arts India, New York
2003 Gallerie 88, Kolkata
2002 'New Indian Art : Home-Street-Shrine-Bazaar-Museum', Manchester Art Gallery, London
2002 'Kapital and Karma', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2001 'In Conversation', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1997 'Private Languages', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
• 2006 with Dilip Ranade, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 With Debnath Basu, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Honors and Awards
1999 Sanskriti Award, Government of India
Anandajit Ray lives and works in Vadodara
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