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
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
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
Sangita Maity (b.1989, Kanthi, West Bengal) lives and works in Kolkata. Sangita completed her post-graduate studies in printmaking from the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University. Her work involves extensive research and she uses photographs, photo-etchings, serigraphy and various other mediums to describe her experience. In 2019 Maity participated at the Serendipity Art Festival, Goa, curated by Rahaab Allana; a group show at Shrine Empire, New Delhi; solo show at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, 2018. She was awarded the Junior Fellowship of Ministry of Culture from the Government of India, 2018 -2020, Experiments 2016, group show at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai and Khoj Peers Residency 2014 at Khoj Artists Association in New Delhi. Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke’s 2014 edition of ‘Art for Young Collectors’, in Mumbai. She received Cima Jury Award in 2015.
Her recent projects are based on socio-cultural, geographical, political and environmental issues on excessive rubber plantation in Tripura, India’s second-largest rubber producing state. She interacts with the land and visits rubber planted forests as well as its related factories in Tripura to understand the process, occupational history of the people involved as a labour in the business.
During her last visit, she investigated the environmental impact of genetically modified rubber plants and occupational migration of local tribal communities. Occupational migration has forced the locals to abandon their traditional way of life and practices. Traditions have been altered by their new circumstances, adapting to other cultures to sustain their livelihood. This body of work investigates the relationship between tradition and situation and their contradictions, in the lives of indigenous communities in Tripura.
“I have been engaged with indigenous communities of Barbil in their makeshift settlements over the course of time to understand what they have unlearned in the process of displacement and what they have learned by unlearning their tradition. Series of portraiture, daily living and activities around the transformed landscape and collective narrativity of the displacement process have been represented into my visual practice over a variety of mediums which I find simulates the sensitivity of the issue.” – Sangita Maity