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Artist's Profile
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Dwijen Gupta |
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DWIJEN GUPTA
At a very young age Dwijen chanced upon a film poster DEVILof the legendary film maker Satyajit Ray and expressed an idea which the great director marvelled at and predicted his future as an artist. Later, in the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, Dwijen achieved a brilliant academic record topping in all.
Years in Visual Art:
In advertising Dwijen created award winning designs and three dimensional works like exhibition, murals and promotional displays for private as well as public sector.
Fascinated with human beings and probing different status of human life especially of women. Dwijens canvas made several journeys to make her portrayal with incisive expressions. The figurative compositions elaborated in water colours expresses the unheeded, unspoken and unsung.
Speciality:
Large water colours on Tussar paper and canvas and large canvas. Also , experimented in mixed media.
Exhibitions:
A group
At New Delhi,Kolkata,Mumbai,Hyderabad,Singapore,Boston
Encounter II . New Delhi
AIFACS & Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Metropolitan Festival of Art
Art Access week 98,99&2001 of Birla Academy of Art & culture,Mumbai
Art Festival by Govt of West Bengal
Joint workshop India & Bangladesh
Exhibition on environment in Kolkata
Workshop in Pen, the international organisation
Group exhibition in Singapore
Group exhibition in Hyderabad
Mukta Shilpa Installation of Art and Academy of Fine Arts 2003 and on Artists on Animals in ITC Sonar Bangla 2004
Group/Exhibition by Apparao Art Gallery in 2004 in Mumbai/Delhi
Group Shows in:- Friends of academy of fine arts. Mukta Shilpa group show, academy annual show 2004 .group workshop conducted by Dhiraj Chowdhury, Siliguri West Bengal. Kendra Art Gallery,New Delhi, 2005, Nandan art gallery, Mumbai, 2005. Calcutta Painters annual shows 2005 &2006. Forum 91,2006. Attended Artists workshop in Bangkok and Benaras 2007.
Solo:
1997 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1999 Nehru centre Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Academy OF Fine Arts, Kolkata with celebrated poets of Bengal
Time & Space Gallery, 2001
Apparao Art Gallery, Bangalore
Collections:
In Bangalore,Chennai,Kolkata,Hyderabad. In Galleries of Paris and Singapore. Apparao Art Gallery in Chennai, Birla Academy of Art & Culture,Mumbai. Time & Space Gallery in Bangalore.
Awards:
AIFACS Proffessional Award for 11 th All India Senior Water Colour Exhibition 2000
Awards for bst calendar design & production of PSU s from international calendar exhibition
Awards for pavilion design in industrial exhibitions for PSUs corporate organisations.
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