Jayashree Chakravarty
BORN EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS HONORS AND AWARD ABOUT THE ARTIST Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Khoai in Tripura in 1956 but grew up in a developing suburb of Kolkata. Witnessing the lush green landscape of his childhood gives way to a gray mass of concrete that would later influence his work, which often addresses urban landscapes old and new. Describing his work as autobiographical and dreamlike, Chakravarty crafts his unique language to express ideas of truth, nature, and unity. He often experiments with organic materials, paper, rice paper, tissue and cellophane, creating fluid and transparent images that lend themselves to multiple interpretations. The artist completed her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, in 1978, and received a postgraduate diploma from M S University, Vadodara, in 1980. In 1993, she emigrated to France, where she worked as a resident artist. She was in Aix-en-Provence for two years, where she met and was influenced by the French artistic movement Supports Surfaces and the work of painter Claude Viallat. In her works, Chakravarty uses overlapping shapes, similar to the sketches that cave painters worked on before capturing them on cave walls. She believes that interacting with human beings from a distant country and a different culture expanded the horizons of her imagination and forced certain preconceived images to change. Chakravarty's ink-on-paper sketches are an exercise in transforming personal experience into mystical truth. Chakravarty has exhibited her work in museums and galleries around the world. Her works are also part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and the Chandigarh Museum. Chakravarty lives and works in Kolkata. Notification - We do not usually display Jayashree Chakravarty's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
1956 Khoai, Tripura
1993-1995 Artist in residence at Ecole d Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
1980 Postgraduate Diploma, Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Vadodara
1978 BFA, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan
2019 Sightings Out of the Wild, Kiran Nadar Art Museum, Noida
2019 A Connected Ecology, Akar Prakar, New Delhi
2017 The Earth as a refuge under the canopy of love, Musee National Des Arts Asiatiques Guimet, Paris and Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai
2016 Life will never be the same, in association with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) at the Musee Des Arts Asiatiques De Nice, France
2014 If you will stay close to nature, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Whispers of the Wind, Aicon, London
2007 Drawing Center, SoHo, USA
2007 Where the Sand Meets the Sky, Bodhi Art, New York
2006 On the Very Face of Time, Galerie 88, Calcutta
2004 Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2003 Experience Road Map, IHC Visuals Art Gallery, New Delhi
2000 Ricochet Thoughts, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
1999 Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1998 The Drawing Room, The Drawing Center, New York
1997 Gallery 7, Bombay
1995 Edole d Art, Aix-en-Provence
1994 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1992 Espace Gallery, New Delhi
1992 Sakshi Gallery, Bombay
1992 Saksi Gallery, Chennai
1990 Gallery 7, Bombay
1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1988 Artistic Heritage, New Delhi
1983 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1982 Urja Art Gallery, Baroda
2020 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2019 Calcutta Santiniketan, Galerie Mirchandani Steinruecke, Mumbai
2014 Beneath the Black Part 2, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
2012 Aviraam Celebrating the Pioneer Spirit SH Raza at 90, presented by The Raza Foundation at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011-12 Back to School Baroda 1979-89, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 The Lost Sparrow, presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2011 Form and Formlessness, Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2011 The Aviary, Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata
2011 Lasting Legacy, Akar Prakar, Calcutta, Neumeister Gallery, Munich
2011 Palimpsest, Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 Narratives, quotes and comments, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2011 Back to School Baroda 1979-89, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Looking Glass The Existence of Difference, Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Center, British Council, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010-11 Image Writing, The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata, W+K Exp, New Delhi
2010 Invisible Cities, Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 Tales of Silence, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Nature Revisited, Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata
2010 Size Matters or Doesn't, Part 2 at Latitude 28, New Delhi
2010 Beyond Object Hood, presented by Gandhara Art Gallery at Nandalal Bose Hall, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata
2009-10 Unclaimed Spaces, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2009 Think Small, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Threshold Forging Narratives in Contemporary South Asian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 Divagations Spaces of Possibility, Raza Foundation Awardee Exhibition, Art Alive, New Delhi
2008 Baroda A Tale of Two Cities, (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2008 Mapping Memories - 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2008 Of personal narratives and journeys, Bodhi Art, Gurgaon
2008 Stories, reflections and constructions, Galerie 88, Calcutta
2008 Excavations Memory, Myth, Membrane, Art Reflections, Mumb
ai
2007 Indian Art III Here and Now Young Voices of India, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2005 Towards Abstraction, Bodhi Art and Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Angkor The Silent Centuries, Bodhi Art, Singapore and New Delhi
2005 Paths of Progression, Bodhi Art and Saffronart, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, New York
2004 Stree, paintings by contemporary Indian artists, Bodhi Art, Singapore
2002 Perspecta, organized by Galerie88, Kolkata, sponsored by UBS, at Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London
2001-2 Secular Practice, Recent Art from India, organized by Hoopoe Curatorial at Optica, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada.
2001 New Works, Galerie88, Calcutta
2001 Tramjatra, a public art event organized by RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Multimedia Art of the 90s, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1998 Espace Gallery, New Delhi
1998 National Council for Cultural Arts and Letters-Contemporary Indian Art, Al-Funoon Gallery, Dhahiat Abdullah Al Salem, Kuwait
1997 Colors of Independence, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1997 Appointment with Destiny-Art of Modern India, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
1997 Major Trends in Indian Art, New Delhi.
1997 Fire and Life, organized by Asia Pacific at IMA, Brisbane, Canberra
1997 Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland
1997 Gouache and contemporary painting, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
1997 The Looking Glass Self: an exhibition of images of the self, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Art Today, New Delhi
1996 Highlights, curated by the Center for International Modern Art Gallery (CIMA) at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Fire and Life, an international artist exchange residency between India and Australia.
1995 Watercolors: A Broader Spectrum -1, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
1992 Subjective Eye, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1991 Journey within the Landscape, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1990 Indian Contemporary Artists, organized by MICA, Melbourne
1990 Art Mosaic, Calcutta, Mumbai, New Delhi
1990 Gadhya Parva Exhibition, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Indian Eclectics, sponsored by the French Embassy and Sanskrit Pratisthan, New Delhi
1989 Chemould Gallery, Calcutta
1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1988 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta
1987 Chitrakala, Stockholm, organized by Festival of India and Kulturhuset, Sweden
1984, 82, 80 National Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta
2007 Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York represented by Aicon Gallery, New York
1997 Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1997 Ninth Triennial - India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Raza Award 2008, Raza Foundation
1997 Honorable Mention Award, Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1991 Scholarship, Government of France
1989 British Council Visiting Scholarship
1982 Elizabeth Green Shield Foundation Scholarship, Canada
1980 Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
1979 Government of India Cultural Scholarship
1979 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
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