Artist      

Born

May 29, 1973 - Serampore, West Bengal

Education

1999 Master of Fine Arts in Print Making (Graphic Arts), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1997 Bachelor of Visual Art in Print Making (Graphic Arts), Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 ‘Multiple Choice’, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2006 ‘Recycling Masterpieces and Etc.’, Gallery Threshold, New Delh
2004 ‘My Experiments with Half Truth’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2001 ‘Don’t / Please Take it Otherwise’, Gallery Art Resource Trust, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 'Review', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2008 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'Baroda: A Tale of Two Cities', (Part II), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2008 'Trends and Trivia', Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2008 'Of Myths And More', Sans Tache, Mumbai
2008 'Metropolis and the Self', Art Alive, New Delhi
2008 'Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2008 'Freshly Squeezed: The Young Indian Contemporaries', Suchitrra Arts, Mumbai
2008 ‘Freedom: Sixty Years of Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2008 ‘Ethos 4’, Indigo Blue Art Gallery, Singapore
2008 ‘Gaze Within / Gaze Without’, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
2008 'Ananya', India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2007 ‘Meandering Membranes’, presented by Empire Art & The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi at The Taj Bengal, New Delhi
2007 ‘Reality Bytes’, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2007 ‘Emerging India’, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2007 ‘British Scholars Exhibition’, Lanxess Abs Gallery, Baroda
2007 ‘Does Size Matter II’, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2007 ‘Mapping Baroda’, Gallery Art Room, New Delhi
2007 ‘Come September’, Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Instilling Life’, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 'Team Unteamed- II', Art Konsult, New Delhi
2006 ‘New Paradigms III’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2006 ‘2 x 2’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda
2006 ‘Nomenclature, Who’s Who’, Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda
2006 ‘Gen Next’, Akriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
2006 ‘Baroda’s Most Wanted’, Space Studio and Gallery, Baroda
2006 ‘Art of Young Bengal’, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
2005 ‘Detour’, Project 88, Mumbai
2005 ‘New Wave in Bengal Art’, Gallery Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2005 ‘Nomenclature, a Re-Thinking’, Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda
2005 ‘100 Contemporary Indian Artists’, Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai
2005 ‘Banyan City’, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
2005 ‘Generations To and Fro’, Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Baroda
2005 ‘In Short’, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘A Tribute to Bhupen Khakhar ‘, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘Alekhya’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda
2003 ‘Figurative and Non Figurative Narration’, National Centre of Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2003 Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2003 ‘The Uprising’, Gallery Son-et-Lumiere, Mumbai
2002 ‘Voices against Violence’, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
2002 ‘Don’t Ask Me why’, Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda
2002 ‘The Banyan City’, Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda
2001 ‘The Cabinet Paintings’, Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, UK
2001 ‘The Christmas Print and Art Show’, Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, UK
2001 ‘Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2000 Prints done in CHHAPP Workshop, Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda
2000 '’Anonymously Yours', British Council and Gallery Lakeeren, Mumbai.
2000 'Beyond the Surface', Gallery Escape, New Delhi and Fine Art Company, Mumbai.
2000 Galerie 88, Kolkata
2000 ‘Group show of Paintings and Prints’, Galerie 88, Kolkata
2000 'Crystalball.com', presented by Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai
2000 ‘Prints 2000', Gallery Art Core, Baroda
1999 ‘Made in India', Exhibition of Prints, Gallery Gauche, Paris.
1999 'Let's See', Exhibition of Three print-makers, Gallery Lakeeren, Mumbai.
1999 'Let's See', Exhibition of Prints and Paintings, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1999 ‘Exhibition of three Print-makers’, Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda
1998 ‘The Rank-holders Exhibition’, Lalit Kala Kendra, Kolkata
Participations

2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Synchrome 4’, Akar Prakar Gallery, Kolkata and Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2008 ‘Miniature Format Show’, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Feb Group Show’, Lanxess Abs Gallery, Baroda
2007 Represented by Gallery Threshold for Art Singapore 2007, Suntec, Singapore
2006 ‘Feb Group Show’, Lanxess Abs Gallery, Baroda
2006 ‘The Indian Art Show’, Arushi Arts, Nehru Centre, London
2006 ‘Harvest’, Arushi Arts, New Delhi
2004 6th Bharat Bhavan International Biennale of Print Art, Bhopal
2003 4th Egyptian Print Triennial, Egypt
2000 'The Miniature Format Show', Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2000 ‘The Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
1998 41st National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1998 70th All India Exhibition, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi.
1995 1st Eastern Prints Biennial, Bhubaneswar.
1995 Inter State Exchange of Art Exhibition, Tamil Nadu Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai

Honours and Awards

2007 Emerging Indian Masters at Royal College of Art London organized by SA Fine Arts and Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2001-02 Recieved Charles Wallace Award to Visit and Work in UK
1999 Awarded C.R. Dasgupta Memorial Gold medal for obtaining highest number of marks in MA (Print Making), Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda