Chittrovanu Mazumdar
BORN EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS ABOUT THE ARTIST Mazumdar's cadres operate by fracture. Composed of bold brushstrokes, collage elements, abstract spaces, and layered figurative images, Mazumdar's raw, almost expressionist canvases create a powerful emotional response. Mazumdar graduated from Government College Kolkata in 1981 with a first-class degree in painting. He has held a variety of solo and group exhibitions in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Paris, and New York, including special exhibitions such as the Exhibition for the African National Congress, the Kolkata Information Centre, Kolkata 1988 and the Confluence Art Camp for French and Indian artists, Alliance Francaise, Kolkata, 1992, Saffronart in Los Angeles 2001 and Saffronart & The Guild, 2004. His work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, and the Seagull Foundation, Kolkata. The artist currently resides in Calcutta. Notification - We do not usually display Chittrovanu Mazumdar's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
1956 Paris
1983 He Studied Painting and Printmaking at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris.
1981 Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta
2016 MANA Contemporary, New Jersey
Night Skin updated in 2012, The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata, presented by 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2010 Ancient Earth, Apparao Galleries, Chennai in association with 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2009 Undated Night Skin, 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2006 Various, Royal Academy of Arts, London presented by Gallerie 88, Kolkata
2005 Bodhi Art, New Delhi
2004 Gallery 88, Bombay
2004 New work, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Calcutta
1997 Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1997 Recent works, presented by Seagull Foundation for the Arts (SFA), Kolkata at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, and Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore.
1997 Works on Paper, Seagull Foundation for the Arts (SFA), Calcutta
1994 Recent Works, organized by Seagull Foundation for the Arts (SFA), Kolkata at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai with Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai
1991 Presented by the Board of Trustees of Seagull and Victoria Memorial, Calcutta at Victoria Memorial Durbar Hall and Sukh Sagar, Calcutta
1989 Recent works, presented by Seagull Foundation, Kolkata at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Untitled, presented by Seagull Foundation, Kolkata, and The Birla Academy at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata.
1985 Recent works, presented by the Seagull Foundation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta.
2012 Reconstruction (White) 3, The Loft, Mumbai
2012 Earth Bodies, 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2011 Love is a 4-letter word, Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 A Material Difference, Paradox, Singapore
2010 The Evolution of Species, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2009 Elemente Zeit, 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai and Hause Chelsea, Sylt Island, Germany
2009 Recycled, Bose Pacia, Kolkata
2009 Re-Claim Re-Cite Re-Cycle, presented by Latitude 28 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi, Bose Pacia, Kolkata
2008 November, 1x1 Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai
2006 Altered Realities, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
2006 The New Space, 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2005 Alchemy, Art Reflections, Mumbai
2005 Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata
2005 Change of address, The Guild, Mumbai
2004 Sacred Space, organized by RPG at Jehangir Art Academy and Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Metallic, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Next Generation, Saffron Art and Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 RPG Collection of Contemporary Bengali Art at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2003 Of memories, dreams, reveries, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2002 Words and Images, organized by Guild Art Gallery at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2001 Saffron Art and Apparatus Galleries, Los Angeles
2001 The Human Factor, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 Intersections Seven artistic dialogues between abstraction and figuration, Mumbai
1998-89 The search within art between implosion and explosion, Kloster Pernegg, Geras and Bildunshau St.Virgil, Salzburg, Austria
1998 The search within art between implosion and explosion, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi and Mumbai
1993 Trends and Images, the inaugural exhibition of the Center for International Modern Art (CIMA) Calcutta
1993 Shraddha, rehabilitation of the mentally ill on the streets of India, Mumbai
1993 Wounds, in protest against communal violence, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta.
1992 Confluence, art camp for French and Indian artists. Organized by Alliance Francaise, Kolkata, at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1990 In celebration of the Tercentenary of Calcutta, organized by the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta.
1989 On the theme of Human Rights, by artists from Bengal. Organized by Alliance Francaise, Kolkata, at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata.
1988 Exhibition for the African National Congress on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday. Presented by Seagull at Kolkata Information Centre, Kolkata
1988 Calcutta Autumn Salon
1988 Paris Salon Artistes Franqaise
2013-14 Transition, 20th anniversary exhibition, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2011 Red, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Intuitive Logic Revisited, from the Osians Collection at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Singapore presented by 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai
2010 Size Matters or Doesn't, Part 1 at Latitude 28, New Delhi
2010 Summer Show 2010, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2009 Project at Inda Art Summit, New Delhi presented by 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2009 Video Wednesday, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2008 Presented by 1x1 Art Gallery at Art Paris, Abu Dhabi
1988 Birla Academy of Art and Culture Annual Exhibition
1988 Calcutta Xaverian Art Festival
1988 Calcutta Art Fair
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