Sudipta Kundu   

Overview:

Sudipta Kundu was born and brought up in a small city named Siliguri in West Bengal, INDIA. Siliguri is a place in the foothills of Darjeeling. After completed his school and college from Siliguri he came to the Capital City of West Bengal, Kolkata (Formerly known as Calcutta) from where he completed his Diploma in “Applied Art” form Academy of Fine Arts. Sudipta Kundu started his career as an Artist in Advertising agencies and later as a Graphic Designer in print media. Later he discovered that his thirst for painting is not fulfilled by these jobs. He is not achieving that path which he dreamt of, and so he decided and started his career as a self-employed professional Artist/Painter. Sudipta Kundu started working with Oil paintings, but after that he gradually shifted to Acrylic Paintings along with other mediums like Water Colour and Charcoal. His recent paintings are mostly in Acrylic. Sudipta’s painting is influenced by the people he sees around. His paintings are realistic and mostly figurative or portrait type in nature. Sudipta usually think of a subject or observe and sees a particular individual or event in his surrounding and then draw the central character of that subject or event and then try to use dramatic moments and themes in his canvas. He is very clear with his intentions- He wants the audience to “Read” his paintings. In his words, “Self expression is very important to me. What I think and delivering that exact thinking on the canvas is really challenging. Sometimes it is very difficult and sometimes it comes spontaneously. I do believe that whatever I paint it should be simple and can be widely understood by a large portion of the audience. The painting should be soothing to the eyes.” Sudipta Kundu’s paintings are sometimes in monochrome, almost in black and white and sometimes in Colour. His subjects are figurative and faded with light and texture in his canvas giving the images a surreal aspect. His works becomes more interesting by the adding of the motifs and objects related to the painting. Sudipta Kundu has been participating in several group and Solo exhibitions in India. His works have been exhibited in the Beijing Olympics, 2008 in China. He was also awarded with DRISHTI Golden Eye award 2013 in POSTER CHALLENGE on the Theme “EYE DONATION” organized and awarded by ANTARDRISHTI, Agra, INDIA. Recently introduced to the European market, the paintings of Sudipta Kundu are admired by new collectors and are tending to reflect a brand new touch in the contemporary Indian art. In the years to come what the Artist wishes to accomplish- Sudipta Kundu continue to create his thinking, his observation, his imagination, the lives of people in his surrounding like a poem on canvases and improvise more and more in the years to come. Sudipta Kundu lives and work in Kolkata, INDIA.

Group Exhibitions:

Group Show of Painting Exhibition Titled “Shilpanjali”- The Art Of Contemporary Bengal, at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai, from the 29th Of August to the 3rd Of September 2016. Group Show of Painting Exhibition Titled “Prakriti Spriha” organized by India Green Realty, Kolkata at Gallery Gold, Kolkata, 3 to 8th june 2016. Group Show of Painting Exhibition Titled “Baishakhi” organized by India Green Realty, Kolkata at Gallery Gold, Kolkata, April 2016. Group Show of Painting exhibition Titled “Strokes” at Gallery Green and Gallery Gold, Kolkata, February 2016  Group show of painting Exhibition Titled- KRISHNA CHARITA organized by INDIA GREEN REALTY, Kolkata at Ravishankar Rawail Kalabhawan , Ahmedabad, September 2015.  Group show of painting Exhibition Titled- KRISHNA CHARITA organized by INDIA GREEN REALTY, Kolkata at Mira Mandir, Kolkata, September 2015.  Group show of painting Exhibition at South City Mall, Kolkata April, 2015 Group Show of Painting Exhibition - “TRIO” at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata in February, 2015 Group Show of Painting Exhibition - “EXPRESSION” at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata in November, 2014  Group show of painting Exhibition – “GANESH” at Gallery Gold, Kolkata in September, 2014.  Group show of painting Exhibition – ART WALK at South City Mall, Kolkata till March, 2014.  Group show of Painting Exhibitions organized by Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore, Titled - Color My World - An exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Photographs at ITC Windsor, Bangalore. Mahua Art Gallery collaborates with Aim For Seva and sponsors ITC Windsor and Royal Caribbean for a fund raising contemporary art exhibition, "Colour my World" at ITC Windsor, Bangalore, March 7 - 12, 2013. The exhibition continued at the Mahua Art Gallery till the March 27, 2013.  Group show of Painting Exhibitions (Promotions 2013) at Renaissance Gallerie, Bangalore, 2013  Group show of painting exhibition organized by India Art mart at The India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in 2011.  Group show of painting exhibition organized by Art Beat and Hope Foundation – In the spirit of Olympics – in Park hotel, Kolkata 2008.  Group show of painting exhibition in Singapore, Malaysia and Jakarta in 2007.  Group show in Applied Art & Design (annual exhibition) at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata , 2000

Solo Exhibitions:

 Solo Painting exhibitions titled SEI SOMOY, a novel written by Shri Sunil Gangopadhyay at Gaganendra Pradarsasala, Kolkata in 2010 and the exhibition was inaugurated by the writer himself.  Solo Painting exhibition “LANDSCAPES” organized by Nataraj Shikshayatan, at Tathya Kendra, Siliguri in 1998.

Achievement:

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Participations:

 Participation Artist in the ART FAIR 2015 in organized by West Bengal Charukala Parshad, Kolkata.  Participation Artist in the ART FAIR 2012 in Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata.  Participated in Annual Art Exhibition 2011-12 organized by West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University in association with Rabindra Nath Tagore Centre, Indian Council for Cultural Relation, Foreign Ministry, Government of India at Nandalal Basu Art Gallery, ICCR, Kolkata in 2012.  Participated in the Art festival- CHITRA SANTHE 2015, CHITRA SANTHE 2014, CHITRA SANTHE 2013, CHITRA SANTHE 2012, CHITRA SANTHE 2011, Organized by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore  Participation Artist in painting exhibition in Beijing Olympics 2008 organized by OLYMPIC FINE ARTS (OFA), in 2008.