SWAGATA BOSE

About Me

Swagata Bose

The ‘ EYE ’ in My Art

Art is understood and finds meaning when a lifetime is spent in pursuing the mind and the thoughts within the artist in solitude in harmony with nature.

Every painter follows life and aspires in his lifetime to create a body of work which imparts pulsating life with great art. I consider myself to be an artist with a mission ,challenging my creative thought process to stretch beyond its comfortable zone My creative satisfaction is derived from delivering something new and fresh.

I also believe that I would want to document the times to which I belong as a true artist, trying to capture images I see in subjects and objects that intrigue my point of interest. I strive to look for “the moment” in time which withholds the tension, emotion, movement in my creative space.

My forte is figurative drawing in contemporary style ,a style I have adapted true to my nature and hope will stand its own. I don’t always follow the narrative but tend to create a body of work on the subject I approach with fervour.

My interest at that point becomes the subject reacting to light, the lines, the dramatic intermingling of colours, though my pallete is more often of a monocromatic toneage, a subtle composition obtained therefore to give the moment in the painting almost a lifelike space.

Academics :

  • BFA from Delhi College of Arts in 1989
  • Certificate of Merit from Delhi College of Art & Bronze Medal in 1986
  • Recipient of Bharat Nirman Awards 2011 for Creative Art.
  • Art Residency and Art Exhibition (23rd July 2012) at ARTFUNKL, Manchester, UK-June 25th – July 25th, 2012.

Work Experience :

  • Worked as freelance illustrator in Advertisement agencies like Delta Advertising, Capital Advertising.
  • Design Studios & Magazines like India Today, Down to Earth
  • Publishing Houses like Vikas, Star Publishers
  • NCERT National Award for Illustrator for Children Literature 1994-95
  • June 25th – July 25th, 2012.

Collection :

Private Collectors : India and abroad, Projects for Tata Metaliks, National Stock Exchange & Vikrant Forge Ltd.

Swagata Bose

Participations

1995 Group show at the Midnight Art Bazaar in Park Hotel, New Delhi

1996/2000 Shows at Art Konsult, New Delhi

1998 Group show at Damns Art Gallery, Kolkata

1999 Group show at ABN Amro Bank, Kolkata

2001 Group show at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

2003 Group show at Gallery Ganesh, New Delhi

2003 Group show at Chittaranjan Memorial Hall, New Delhi.

2004 Solo show ‘Enlightened’, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.

2005 2007 – Group shows with ‘The Group’ at the Academy Of Fine Arts and Palladian Lounge, Kolkata

2006 – Group show with The Group at Gorky Sadan on ‘Peace’.

2007 – Group show at Samakol Art Gallery.

2007- Group show at Academy of Fine Arts.

2007 – Solo show at Taj Bengal, Kolkata.

Group show -The silver jubilee of The Group’ at The Academy Of fine Arts,Kolkata – 2009.

Group show- at The Art Gallery’ ITC Sonar,Kolkata with the group Spandan – 2010.

Group show- at The Academy Of Fine Arts,Kolkata with the group Srijan – 2010.

2011 – Solo Art Exhibition’La Venus- The Being and The Body in ITC Sonar Kolkata.

2012 – Solo Art Exhibition of “TALSARI” at Taj Bengal, Kolkata.

2012 (March) – Participation in workshop “Rabindra Chinta” with contemporary artists commerating 150 years of
Rabindranath Tagore.

23rd July 2012 – Solo Art Exhibition “SILENCE FINDS AN EXPRESSION -The moments in time” in ARTFUNKL,
Manchester, UK.

4th-11th March, 2013 – Solo Art Exhibition “Paintings by Swagata Bose” – Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal, Kolkata.

2014 Group shows Roymans and Sreejan

2014 April Metal & Brush, Ador House, Mumbai – Swagata Bose & Shankar Ghosh.

Exposition of Art, hosted ITC Sonar, Kolkata and Renu Roy with Keshab Roy, 10th October, 2014.

2015-2019- Group shows with Moner Milan.

2020- Participating Artist in Group Online International Art Exhibition ‘TANGIBILITY OF TIME’ by CTG Club, Bangladesh.