S.D.Dutta

BORN
1934 Ranchi, Bihar

DIED
2005 Calcutta

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1950-55 Diploma in Painting, Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta

SELECTED POSTHUMOUS EXHIBITIONS
2012-13 Calcutta Chromosome, The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2011-12 Reprise 2011, Aicon Gallery, New York
2010-11 Figure Landscape, Part Two, Aicon Gallery, London
2010 Figure Landscape Part One, Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 Indian Art after Independence Selected works from the collections of Virginia and Ravi Akhoury and Shelley and Donald Rubin, Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
2009 Wound, Aicon Gallery, London
2009 75th Birth Anniversary Show, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2009 Charting Time, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 Post-Independence Masters, Aicon Gallery, New York
2008 Shyamal Dutta Ray Memorial Show, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2006 Tribute, Aicon Gallery, New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1999 Watercolor Marks, Mumbai
1999 Modern and contemporary works on paper, Bonhams, London
1997 Exhibition, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1995 Auction of modern and contemporary Indian paintings at Sotheby's, London
1993 Artists by Helpage, Aspreys Auction, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Wounds, CIMA International Center of Modern Art, Calcutta
1991 Art for spastics, Calcutta.
1990 Bengal Art Today, Galerie 88, Calcutta
1987 Indian Drawing Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1984 Kala Yatra and Sistas, Chennai
1982 Kala Yatra, Mumbai, Bangalore, London, Manchester, Paris
1981 Kala Yatra, Hyderabad
1981 Indian Painting Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1971 Prints from India and Poland.
1969 Traveling Exhibition, Asian Graphic Prints, USA
1958 Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta.

PARTICIPATIONS
1986 Sixth International Triennial, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1983 Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1982 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1982 Inaugural Exhibition, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1980 All India Graphic Exhibition, Chandigarh
1978,79,80,84 Inter Grafik, East Germany
1976 Western Pacific Print Biennial, Australia

HONORS AND AWARD
1958 Gold Medal, Calcutta Academy of Fine Arts
1968 Rabindra Bharati University Prize, Calcutta
1968 Founder member, Group 8, Calcutta
1972,73,75,78 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta
1982 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1988 Karnataka Chitrakala Parish, Bengaluru
1988 Shiromani Puraskar Awardee

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The images in my paintings come mainly from my personal experiences. It is the visual world and its influences on me that I try to reveal on my canvas.

Shyamal Dutta Ray's work constitutes an important turning point in the history of the Bengal School of Art. Ray is credited with adding depth and intensity to the medium of watercolors, at a time when the Bengal School of Art traditionally used light, watery colors. His melancholic and pensive works reflect the contradictions of the life around him.

Considered a master watercolorist, Ray is also a founding member of the Society of Contemporary Artists, a collective of artists who sought to introduce innovation to the art world of the 1960s. Most of Ray's work reflects the urban life of Calcutta, with its happiness and sadness, struggle and struggle, poverty and hope. The works also exhibit a sense of irony, surrealism, and awareness of a disintegrating society.

Shyamal Dutta Ray studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta. He has received many honors the Lalit Kala Academy Merit Award, the Shiromani Kala Puraskar, and the special commendation of the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad. His works have been exhibited in Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta and Bangalore. He has participated in international exhibitions such as the Third World Graphic Biennial, in London, and the Havana Biennial, in Cuba, to mention a few. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Glenbarra Museum in Japan.

The artist died on May 19, 2005.

Notification - We do not usually display Shyamal Dutta Roy's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.

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