Born
1963 – Kolkata, India
Education
1995 Post-graduate Diploma in Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
1989 B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting, Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, University of Calcutta, India
Honors and Awards
2024-25: Individual Artist Fellowship from New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2021: Received Gottlieb Foundation Grant, USA
2020: Finalist Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2018: Alfa Art Gallery Award in New Brunswick Art Salon, New Jersey, USA
2011-12: Senior Research Fellowship from Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India
2005,1996: Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Canada
1996-97: Bendre Husain Scholarship, Mumbai
1995-97: Junior Research Fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture, Govt. of India
1990,95:All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS) Award, New Delhi
1994: Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 ‘The Perilous Home’, The Gallery, Summit Free Public Library, Curated by Visual Art Center of New Jersey, USA
2015 ‘The Imperfectionist’, Exhibition Gallery Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
2013 ‘Power of black’, Artworld Chennai, India
2007 'Humanscape', The Art House, Singapore
2007 ‘Open Ended’, AICON Gallery, Palo Alto, USA
2006 ‘B Positive’, Gallery Katayun, Kolkata, India
2005 ‘Face 2 Face’, Art World, Chennai, India
1999 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1998 Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore, India
1997 Gallery Katayun, Kolkata, India
1996 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 'Incomplete' at Scarab Club, Detroit, curated by Sajeev Viswesaran
2021 'A Daze of Roses' at Mizuma & Kips, New York, curated by Robert Curcio
2021 ‘Resonate Becoming’ NBAS winner show Alfa art gallery, NJ
2021 Online Fine art show at India Cultural Center, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
2020 Centennial: Online International Visual art exhibition, University of Lucknow, India
2019 ‘We attract’ Art Pilgrim Live, Gurgaon, India
2017 Hammond Museum, New Salem, NY
2017 Alfa Art Gallery, New Jersey
2016 ‘Contemplations: A Tableau of the Real and Imagine’ at Tapi Utsav Science Center, Surat, India
2015 ‘Vadfest’, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, India
2014 9th Print Triennial Mondial of Chamelieres, France.
2014 ‘Seamless encounters’, Emami Chisel Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
2013 ‘Knotted Narratives’, Gallery Art Positive, New Delhi
2012 ‘Head to Head’, Samsara Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2011 'A Material Difference', Paradox, Singapore
2010-11 'Figure/Landscape: Part Two', AICON Gallery, London
2008-09 'Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan', AICON Gallery, London
2008 ‘Gaze Within Gaze Without’ Gandhara Art gallery, Kolkata, India
2007 ‘Diverse Idioms’ Indian Contemporary, Hong Kong Visual Art Center
2007 ‘Flow Freeze Focus’ Gallery, Kolkata
2007 ‘Whispering palette’ Red Earth Gallery, Baroda, India
2007 ‘Winter Show’, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, USA
2007 ‘Artists of Baroda’ Artworld, Chennai, India
2006 ‘Confluence 2006’, Aicon Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Framed Spaces Boundless Limits’ Gandhara art Gallery, Kolkata, India
2005 ‘Metamorphosis’ Asian Cultural Center, New York
2005 ‘Bridges’, Art Alive, New Delhi
2005 ‘Detour’, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2005 ‘Are we like this only?’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘A New Mediatic Realism’, ABS Gallery, Vadodara, India
2004 ‘Looking Back Looking Forward’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara, India
2003 ‘Paradigm of References’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2003 ‘Homage To Bhupen Khakhar’, M.E.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi
2002 ‘Banyan City’, Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara, India
2002 ‘Self Portrait’, RPG Enterprise, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
2002 ‘Voices against Violence’, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
2001 ‘Art of Bengal’, organized by RPG Enterprises at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, India
2001 ‘Perceptual Reflections’, Ravindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1995 ‘Young Baroda’, Art Today, New Delhi
1994 Bharat Bhavan Print Biennale, Bhopal, India
1992 Tata Centre, Kolkata, India
Art Residencies/Workshop/Print portfolio
2019 National Printmaking workshop organized by Lalit Kala Akademy and Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, India
2018 "Microcosm” curated by Lina Vincent and coordinated by the International Print Exchange Program of 40 International printmakers
2015 Printmaking residency at Uttarayan, Baroda, India
2012 International Art Workshop organized by Govt. of Goa and Tellus Art Foundation, Sweden
2010 Painters' workshop at Srinagar organized by J&K Police, India
2008 National level Artist’s residency at Srinagar, by Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
2008 National printmaking workshop organized by West Zone Cultural Center, Vadodara, India
2006 “Confluence” by AICON Gallery, New York
2004 "Local Train Painting" by the artists from Vadodara and Mumbai organized by Open Circle for World Social Forum, Mumbai
2004 Painting Workshop at Kolkata and Jamshedpur by Tata Steel
Publication, Art talk/Presentation, Reviews
2022 Article published in Art India Magazine, written by Sandhya Bordewekar
2022 Artist talk at Eastern state university of Connecticut art gallery
2022 Artist talk at UConn, Department of Art, Moderator: Kathryn Myers
2021 Artist talk with NI talks Niracharthu, India
2021 Interview published Sajal Sarkar | (artreviewcity.com)
2021 Artist talk (virtual) at UConn. Department of Art, Moderator: Prof. Kathryn Myers
2021 Artist talk (virtual) at UConn. Department of Sociology, Moderator: Dr. Manisha Desai
2021 "A Daze of Roses", group show review at White Hot Magazine by Siba Kumar Das
2021 Interview with India based American artist Waswo X Waswo in a video series titled "Evil O"
2019 Solo Show "Perilous Home", Reviewed by Dr. Sunanda K. Sanyal, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2020 Interview published at Art Soul Life magazine, India
2020 Art talk (virtual) with Banglablog, Moderator: Dr Sunanda K Sanyal
Teaching
2017-2019 Art Instructor at Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Works in Collection
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
Library of Congress, Washington D.C., and several private collections in India & abroad
Studio: Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ