Pradip Maitra

He obtained his diploma from the Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship (with first-class honors) in Kolkata and graduated from the University of Calcutta.

Pradip Maitra’s vigorous brushstrokes—featuring shades of black, olive green, rust tones, and a similar chromatic range—capture the past and fuse it with the present to create contemporary modern art. Historical monuments and ancient figures, steam locomotives, dilapidated buildings, and scenes from modern life are among the many subjects he depicts in his abstract-style paintings.

Maitra’s predilection for painting landscapes has resulted in magnificent, bold creations. His works possess a quality that is at once transparent and mystical. Pradip Maitra has been a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists since 1988. The artist lives and works in Kolkata.

BORN

1959 Kolkata

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

1984 He Studied at Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship. Calcutta 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

1983 Solo show, sponsored by Bata India Ltd, Calcutta 

1983 Solo show, sponsored by Bata India Ltd, Calcutta 

1987 Solo show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 

1988 Solo show, organised by Seagull Foundation for Arts, Birta Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 

1989 Solo show, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 

1989 Solo show, Jehangir At Gallery, Bombay 

1991 Solo show, Jehangir Art Gallery. Bombay 

1992 Solo show, The Gallery, Madras 

1994 Solo show, Gallery 42, New Delhi 

1999 Solo show, Gallery 42, New Delhi 

2001 Solo show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

1985 Group Show. All India Art Exhb., Bhuveneshwar, Orissa 

1985 Group show, Mahakoshala Kala Parishad, Madhya Pradesh 

1988 Group show, organised by Society of Children Welfare, Bombay 

1991 Group show, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 

1992 Group show, organised by R.P.G. Enterprises, Bombay 

1993 Group show, organised by The Gallery, Chirtrakoot Art Gallery, Gallerie 88,Calcutta 

1994 Group shows at Bombay, Hyderabad, Madras 

1995 Group show, organised by The Gallery, Bangkok, Hongkong 

1995 Group shows, organised by Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 

1999 Group show, organised by Birla Academy of Art & Culture. Mumbai 

2001 Group show. Gandhara Art Gallery. Kolkata 

2001 Group show organised by Gallery 0m Arts, Dubai 

PARTICIPATIONS 

1985 Annual Exhibition Govt. of West Bengal, Calcutta 

1987 All India Youth Art Exhb. organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, Calcutta 

1988 Young Faces In Contemporary Art, organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Bombay and Calcutta 

1988 Celebration of Calcutta Tercentenary Show, organised by Birta Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 

1990 Bengal Art Today, Organised by Galterie 88, Bombay 

1991 Best of Bengal, organised by Genesis Art Gallery, Calcutta 

1992 A Man & A Woman, organised by The Art Trust, Bombay 

1996 Harmony, organised by Reliance Group, Mumbai 

1996 Seven Water Colourists, organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 

1997 Exhb. organised by Gallery Espace, New Delhi 

1998 Narmada Bachao, organised by Medha Patkar at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 

1998 Unmasking, exhb.. organised by Gallery 0m Arts , New Delhi 

1999 Six Painters from Bengal, organised by Chitrakoot Art Gallery. Mumbai 

1999 Contemporary Watercolours, organised by Art Motif. New Delhi 

1999 Exhb organised by Gandhara Art Gallery, Bangalore 

1999 Exhb for raising 'Kargil Funds' organized by Chitrakoot Art Gallery. Calcutta 

1999 Discipline in Watercolour organised by Chitrakoot Art Gallery 

2000 Vision and Attitudes, Jehangir Art Gallery. Mumbai 

2003 Invited as guest artist in an exhb. organised by South Eastern Railways on occasion of 150 years of Indian Railways  

HONORS AND AWARDS

Eight Awards at State & National Level