Born: 4^th July 1973

B.F.A. with Painting specialization from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (1992-1997)

M.F.A. with Painting specialization from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (1997-1999)

Received National Scholarship from the government of India in the field of visual art (painting), from1996 to 1998

Shortlisted as the Finalist of the Sovereign Asian Art Award, 2018, 2020 (Hong Kong)

Solo shows:

• ‘Open your eyes’ - at Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2005
• ‘No-man’s land’ – at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai, 2006
• ‘The Thin Line’ – at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2007
• ‘fire somewhere…’ - at Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2007
• ‘hide and seek’ – at Project 88, Mumbai, 2008
• ‘small things’ - at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2010
• ‘do you still happen?’ – at Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2010
• ‘BEING BLACK’ – at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2013
• The FEAR BOOKS & more - at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2016
• ‘# Wrong Routes’ – at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2022

Group shows:

• ‘Emerging Trends’- CIMA gallery, Kolkata, 1999.
• ‘Bengal-new ideas and media’- organized by CIMA gallery, Kolkata at Tao Art gallery, Mumbai, 2000.
• Group show organized by Gallery Espace at the French embassy, New Delhi, 2001.
• A show of 20 young artists from Santiniketan, organized by Gallery Espace at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 2002.
• ‘Raindrops keep falling…’ at Shridharani Art gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, 2002

and,

• at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, 2002.
• ‘Midways’- curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, 2003
• ‘Versions’- organized by ‘the ZEST group’ at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, 2005.
• ‘Conversations’- a two-person show organized by and at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, 2005.
• Recent works’ –a group show organized by and at Project 88 Gallery, Mumbai, 2007.
• ‘Shantiniketan show - from Old Masters to Young Contemporaries’ – organized by Safine Arts at Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, U.K., 2008
• Indian Art Exhibition organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in Kuwait and Egypt, 2008.
• ‘Perspecta’ – curated by Sanjay Tulsyan & Galerie 88 at Cholamandal Centre for Contemporary Arts, Chennai, 2009
• “With Best Intensions” – organized by Anant Art Gallery at Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2009
• “Tell -Tale: Fiction Falsehood & fact” – curated by Dr. Paula Sengupta at Gallery Experimenter, Kolkata, 2009
• “Recent works’’ – at Galerie 88, Kolkata, 2009
• “Paper Works” – at Galerie 88, Kolkata, 2011
• “Just One” – Summer Show at ARTCO gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany, 2011
• "Garten der Künste", Kunstverein Aalen, Aalen, Germany, 2011
• Works on paper – organized by Victoria Knox Company, Switzerland and curated by Alka Pandey and Gallery Akar Prakar at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2011
• Group show at Kulterwerk, Aachen curated by ARTCO Gallery, Germany, 2012
• “Firm ground beneath her”, opening show at Gallery Veda, Chennai, 2012
• “Tagore Lost and Found”, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias at Art Bull Gallery, New Delhi, 2013
• “Beneath the Black-part-2”, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2014
• “Following the Box” – a Fullbright scholarship project curated by Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral, presented by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, 2015
• “Reading Room-IV”, group show of South Asian book art curated by Amit Jain, at School of Art, Winchester, U.K., 2015
• “Following the Box” – a Fullbright scholarship project curated by Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral, presented at IGNCA, New Delhi, 2016
• “Poetics of Plurality” – a show curated by Ushmita Sahu on the development of art language in Santiniketan in last 30 years at Gallery Site Art Space, Vadodara, 2016
• “Reading Room”, group show of South Asian book art curated by Amit Jain, at Saffronart, New York, U.S.A., 2016
• “I Am” group show curated by Ushmita Sahu at Gallery A.M., Kolkata, 2017
• “Things Lost/Remembering the Future”, group show of South Asian art co-curated with Kurchi Ddasgupta at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2017
• “Disappearing Dialogues” a collaborative art project curated by Nobina Gupta at Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2017
• “What Thou Seest Yound”, a group show of Indian artists at Kaunus Center for Creative Industries, Lithuania, 2017
• ‘The Finalist’s’ Show’, Sovereign Asian Art Award, Hong Kong, 2018
• ‘I am Sutradhar’ – group show curated by Archana Hande at Guild Gallery, Alibaug, 2018
• ‘Following the Box’, at Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, USA, 2018
• ‘Babur ki Gai’, an international show curated by Bhavna Kakar & Adwait Singh at Latitude 28 and Art District XIII, New Delhi, 2018
• ‘Following the Box’, at USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA, 2019
• ‘Telling Tales: A journey into Narratives’ – a group show curated by Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi at Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2020
• ‘The Finalist’s’ Show’, Sovereign Asian Art Award, Hong Kong, 2020
• ‘The Legacy of Loss’ – a show co-curated by Dr. Rajasri Mukhopadhyay and KCC with Kolkata Partition Museum Trust to remember the legacy and stories of Bengal Partition at Kolkata Centre for Creativity, 2021
• ‘Following the Box’, at John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, USA, 2022
• ‘Kolkata: Run in the Alley’, at Marres, House of Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2022
• Sovereign Art Foundation Anonymous Exhibition, Hong Kong, 2024
• Miniature Stamp Size Drawings, Kolkata Edition, curated by Nilesh Kinkale, hosted by Srabani Sarkar at Charubasona, Jogen Chowdhury Centre for Arts, Kolkata, 2024 & in Monalisa Kalagram, Pune, 2024
• ‘Archipelago’ – A group show about Mapping Memories, curated by Lina Vincent at Monalisa Kalagram, Pune, 2024
• TENT Biennale 2024, initiated by Dr. Madhuja Mukherjee, at B-CAF, Kolkata, 2024
• ‘The Book Project’, curated by Shijo Jacob at Apparao Gallery, Chennai, 2025
• ‘The Book Project’, curated by Shijo Jacob organized by the Apparao Gallery at Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2025
• ‘Speech Acts’ – A two person show with Madhuja Mukherjee based on Mrinal Sen’s cinematic oeuvre at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2025

Interactive art activities and curatorial works:

• Curated “The Workshop” with Manjari Chakravarti, an interactive art platform created at Facebook for artists around the world to share their ideas and artwork on a given topic once every month, 2011
• “SKYJAM” co-curated with Manas Acharya, a one-day art activity amongst more than twenty artists across the globe in the virtual world on a given date and time at Studio 21, Kolkata, 2012
• Publication: ‘Making of a show’ in DESIGN FOR ALL, publication from IIT Kanpur, 2016
• Co-Curated ‘Things Lost/Remembering the Future’ – a South Asian Show with Kurchi Dasgupta at Ganges Art Gallery, 2017
• Co-Curated a South Asian Show with Kurchi Dasgupta at ITC Shonar as a part of SAARC country Ladies Meet, 2018
• Co-Curated ‘Small Histories: Memory as Practice, Memory as Ethics’ – a South Asian Show with Kurchi Dasgupta at Ganges Art Gallery, 2018

Projects and Residencies:

• Residency program at Britto Art Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014
• ‘Following the Box’ – research project curated by Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral, 2014
• ‘Boithok-khana Narrative- II’, an initiative by Khoj Kolkata and TENT, Kolkata, 2014
• Residency program at Theertha Residency, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015
• ‘Disappearing Dialogues’, international research residency at Art Ichol, Maihar, India, curated by Nobina Gupta, 2016
• ‘Project Fear’ – a self-funded interactive project to collect personal stories of fear across five countries of the sub-continent and create individual books on them to see with universal emotion if we can cross the social, political and geographical boundaries, 2013 -2017
•  ‘Rebuilding Recaptured’ international research residency at Shipapokhri village initiated by Nexus Culture, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017
• ‘Longform’ – a compilation of small format graphic narratives published by Harper Collins, 2018
• ‘ShopArtArtShop’, an Art Residency on the theme ‘Borderlines’ by The4Tables Project at Gunehar, India, 2019
• ‘Chitpur Local’- edition 3, a yearlong Community Art Project based on the oldest part of city Kolkata, India, 2019
• ‘Indigo is Red’ – a project about Indigo initiated by Weavers’ Studio Kolkata in collaboration with DAG & Alipore Jail Museum, Kolkata, India, 2025

Participation in art fairs:

• Cologne Paper Art, Germany, 2012 (from ARTCO Gallery, Germany)
• United Art Fair, New Delhi, 2013
• Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh with Ganges Art Gallery, 2014
• India Art Fair with Ganges Art Gallery, New Delhi, January 2015

At present: Lives and works in Kolkata.