S.Roy

BORN
1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh

DIED
2016

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1956-66 Studied Graphic Art under the guidance of S.W. Hayter, Atelier 17 and Mural Art at L' Ecole National Superior des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1953-58 Diploma in Painting, Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship, Kolkata

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 'Beyond Rasikpriya', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007-08 Drops of Silence, Akar Prakar, Kolkata and Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi
2007 Organized by Art Pilgrim at Gallery SW - 1, London
2006 Organized by Art Pilgrim at Gallery SW - 1, London
2006 Organized by Indian Fine Arts at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992 Centre Art Gallery, Kolkata
1992 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1988 Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata
1986 Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata
1986 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1986 Dhoomimal Art Centre, Kolkata
1983 Calcutta Arts Gallery, Kolkata
1964 Arts and Prints Gallery, Kolkata

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012-13 'Calcutta Chromosome', The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2010 'Image and Symbol: Painters Perception', Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
2010 'Black is Beautiful', India Fine Art, Mumbai
2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai
2009 'Indian Harvest', presented by Crimson- The Art Resouce, Bangalore at SG Private Banking, Singapore
2009 'Entity', in association with the Asian Academy of Film & Television at M.E.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'Drawing Show an Act of Art II', Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Organized by Gallery 88, Kolkata at Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, New York
1995 Exhibition of Late Masters and Contemporary Masters organized by Art News and The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
1995 Indian Contemporary Masters organized by Sarala Art Gallery, Chennai
1995 Exhibition of Women In Indian Art, organized by The Gallery, Hong Kong
1995 Exhibition of Contemporary Masters organized by Sanskrit Art Gallery, New Delhi
1995 Gallery La-Mare, Kolkata
1995 Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1995 Heads and Face, organized by Gallery Maya, Hong Kong
1995 Highlights, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1995 Exhibition of Paintings by Rotary Club of Calcutta at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1994 Indian Printmaker, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1994 Exhibition of Paintings by Rotary Club of Calcutta at Gallery 88, Kolkata
1994 Contemporary Masters, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1993 Help Age, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992 Exhibition of Album, by Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata
1992 All India Collector's Choice Exhibition by Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata and Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992 India-a-Selection from the Words of Indian Painters, organized by Gallery 88, Kolkata at The Oberoi, New Delhi
1992 All India Exhibitions organized by Art Age Gallery, New Delhi
1992 Bengal Art Today, organized by Arup Datta and Management Council, Hyderabad
1991 Collectors Choice Exhibition, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1991 Monsoon Show, Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata
1989-90 Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishad, Bangalore
1989-90 Safdar Hashmi Memorial Exhibition, New Delhi
1989-90 Drawing, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1989-90 Society for Children Welfare sponsored by Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1988-89 Art for CRY, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1988-89 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1988-89 College of Art, New Delhi

PARTICIPATIONS
2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Summer Show 2010', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2010 Evolve 10th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Annual Exhibition, La-Mere, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, Kolkata
1996 Annual Exhibition of Gallery 88, Kolkata
1995 Annual Exhibition, Surya Gallery, Hyderabad
1995 Annual Exhibition organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1995 29th Anniversary Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1992 Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1991 Annual Exhibition, Sanskrit Art Gallery, Kolkata
1991 Annual Exhibition, Gallery 88, Kolkata
1991 All India Exhibition of Radha, Gandhar Art Gallery, Kolkata
1991 All India Exhibition of Krishna, Gallery 88, Kolkata
1991 Annual Exhibition, Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata
1958 Annual Exhibition, India College of Art and Craft, Kolkata
1958 1st All India Graphics Exhibition organized by Group B
Exposition of La Cite Internal Des Arts, Paris
Exposition Des Arts Etogere Boursiers des Government of France, Paris
7th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo
Exhibition of Graphics by Indian Artists, organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi at Poland
Recent Art in India, organized by Lalit Kala Akademi

HONORS AND AWARD
1986 Certificate of Merit, Symphony, Hoshiarpur
1973 Certificates of Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1970 West Bengal Academy of Drama and Fine Arts, Kolkata
1969 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1968 1st All India Graphic Exhibition by Group 8
1957-58 Annual Exhibition, Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship, Kolkata

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in pre-Partition Bengal, Suhas Roy had a difficult childhood after the early demise of his father. With a supportive mother, he joined the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Calcutta, in 1953. He went to France on a scholarship with fellow artists Jogen Chowdhury and Dipak Banerjee, where he studied graphic art under S. W. Hayter and mural art at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Art, Paris. Inspired by European modernism, and later by the works of the Japanese artist Taikan he came across at Santiniketan, Roy incorporated them into his landscapes.

Roy's early etchings and landscapes gave way to his sensitive Christ figures and faces, inspired by Europe's churches and altar figures. These interests changed later to his paintings of women: beautiful, luminous and slightly melancholic, gazing at the viewer or away into the distance. The protagonist of his Radha series has remained his longstanding muse as the mythic embodiment of feminine beauty. Believing in the need for beauty in art, these have come to define his work. He worked with printmaking in his Crow series at Santiniketan, and his series Disaster captured the turbulence of Bengal's Naxalite movement. Suhas Roy lives and works in Kolkata.

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