Shrine Empire Gallery » Sangita Maity

Bio CV Exhibitions

In a span of 15 years
In a span of 15 years
In a span of 15 years
In a span of 15 years
Manmade Landscape III
Manmade Landscape IV
Manmade Landscape IX
Manmade Landscape V
Manmade Landscape VI
Manmade Landscape VII
Manmade Landscape VIII
The seat is always empty
The seat is always empty
Untitled
Untitled
All our seeds are saved
All our seeds are saved
All our seeds are saved
All our seeds are saved
We only have this piece of land
Untitled
River diversion
Industrial Acquisition
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Wall of traditions
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Living with the memories
Farming labourers, situation – I & II
When they stopped making
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
From their tradition
Dysfunctional tools
Growing in a cage
Industrial Acquisition IV
Living with the memories
They are looking for a new village
Dysfunctional tools
Dysfunctional tools
Dysfunctional tools
Dysfunctional tools
Industrial acquisition
Industrial Acquisition
Industrial acquisition
When they stopped making
Untitled
How They Looked At Us
Altered Landscape III
Views from a Certain Distance IV
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Forest without the Sky II
Forest without the Sky
Alternative Landscape III
Procession on a Conditional Land II
Nothing Left to Worship II
Culture Tools
Portraits from Different Land
They Don’t Call Themselves Farmer Anymore
Untitled
Industrial Portraits- III
Field Note (stage 2)
A Settlement to Deepen the Land II
Living in the Crevice
Altered Landscape II
Altered Landscape I
Untitled
Introduction of a Different Way
Making a Barren Land
Untitled
Making of a Conditional Barren Land
Making a Barren Land
Manmade Landscape II
Object Studies from Memories
Object Studies from Memories
When They Stopped Dancing
Portraits from Different Land
Manmade Landscape
Living with Different Horizons
Nothing left to Worship
When they do not Dance
Nothing left to Worship
Nothing left to Worship
Nothing left to Worship
Nothing left to Worship
Procession on a Conditional Land
View from a Certain Distance III
Sitting Cows & their Surrounding
Marking to Dig the Land
View from a Certain Distance
Memories from a Landscape I
View from a Certain Distance I
Calculative Division
Settlement to Deepen the Land
Calculative Division
Riverse Perspective

Education

2014 M.F.A. in Graphics (Printmaking), Faculty of Visual Art, Rabindra Bharati University
2012 B.F.A. in Graphics (Printmaking), Faculty of Visual Art, Rabindra Bharati University

Exhibitions

2023

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2022
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi
Shrine Empire, New Delhi | ‘Now They Stopped Building Granaries’ | Solo show

2021
Artissima | Hub India: Maximum Minimum | Group show
In Touch | Edition 5 | From the Soil
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi

2020
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2019
Serendipity Art Festival, Goa, curated by Rahaab Allana
Group show at Shrine Empire, New Delhi
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2018
Solo show at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2017
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2016
EXPERIMENTS |CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata
EXPERIMENTS | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

2015
CIMA Award Show | CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata

2014
Khoj Peers Residency Show | Khoj Artists Association, New Delhi
Art for Young Collectors | Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
Emami Chisel Annual Exhibition | Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata
Birla Academy Annual Exhibition | Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
State Academy Annual Exhibition |ICCR Gallery, Kolkata
Students’ Annual Exhibition | RBU at Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata

2013
Industrial Portraits | Clark House Initiative, Mumbai
Students’ Annual Exhibition | RBU at ICCR Gallery, Kolkata
Annual Exhibition of State Academy | RBU at ICCR Gallery, Kolkata

2012
Annual Exhibition | Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
Students’ Annual Exhibition | RBU at Kolkata Town Hall

2011
Students’ Annual Exhibition | RBU at Kolkata Town Hall

2010
Annual Show of Oriental Art Society | Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
Group Show at Gorky Sadan | Russian Cultural Centre, Kolkata
Students’ Annual Exhibition | RBU at Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

2009
Students’ Annual Exhibition | RBU at Emerald Bower Campus, Kolkata

Awards / Residencies
2018-20 Junior Fellowship of Ministry of Culture from the Government of India
2015 CIMA Jury Award, Kolkata
2014 Khoj Peers Residency, Khoj Artists Association, New Delhi
2013 Certificate of Merit, Students’ Annual Exhibition, RBU at ICCR Gallery
2012 Certificate of Merit, Students’ Annual Exhibition, RBU at Kolkata Town Hall
2010 Award- Annual Show of Oriental Art Society at Academy of Fine Arts

Born in 1989, Sangita Maity resides and works in Kolkata. Sangita finished her degree in printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University’s Faculty of Visual Arts. She has been engaged with indigenous communities of Chota Nagpur plateau for several years in their makeshift settlements over time to understand cultural loss in the process of forced displacement and unlearning of their traditional and sustainable practices as custodians of their land during occupational migration. Series of portraiture, daily living practices, activities around the mineral rich landscape transformed by the mining industry and collective testimonies from the community on their experience with displacement are represented in her visual practice through a variety of media and material that are in dialogue with the material context of the region through innovative and experimental processes. She experiments at the intersections of photography, photo-etchings, serigraphy, and a variety of other practices. Her most recent projects focus on environmental, political, topographical, and sociocultural concerns related to an excess of rubber plantations in Tripura, the second-largest rubber-producing state in India. She engages with the land, goes to rubber-planted forests, and visits associated factories in Tripura in order to understand the occupational history and process of the people engaged in the industry.

Sangita Maity was part of the Arthshila x Khoj Residency in 2022 that primarily focused on the artists working in Ceramics, Textile, Sculpture and Printmaking. “Now They Stopped Building Granaries’ was Sangita’s solo exhibition at Shrine Empire in New Delhi in 2022. “Legal Alien,” curated by Meera Menezes, was exhibited at Bikaner House in New Delhi in 2019. In 2018, Maity took part in the Serendipity Art Festival in Goa curated by Rahaab Allana, and a solo exhibition at the Clark House Initiative in Mumbai in collaboration with Shrine Empire. The Government of India granted her the Junior Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture, 2018–2020. She has previously participated in the Khoj Peers Residency 2014 at the Khoj Artists Association in New Delhi, as well as the group exhibition Experiments 2016 at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai. Sangita was also featured in the 2014 “Art for Young Collectors” exhibition at Mumbai’s Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke. In 2015, she also received the Cima Jury Award.