Swapan Das

ABOUT ARTIST SWAPAN DAS

Educational Qualification : 2 Years Preparatory Course in the year 1991 B.V.A 3 years Honors Course Govt. College of Arts and Craft, 1993-1994, Kolkata. Award : Certificate of merit Govt. College of Art and Craft,1993 Haren Das’s Award Govt. College of Arts and Craft,1994 Abanindranath Tagore Medal in Indian Society of Oriental Arts, 1994 Pratima Devi Tagore Memorial Medal,Indian Society of Oriental Arts, 1995. Gaganendranath Tagore memorial Medal in Indian Society of Oriental Arts, 1996. Abanindranath Tagore Memorial Medal in Indian Society of Oriental Arts, 2001 Certificate of merit in Academy of Fine Arts, 2005 in Kolkata. Prafulla Dhanukar Art Foundation (PDAF) Award Gold Medal, Mumbai, 2016-2017 Experience : Worked under famous artist Late Mrinal Kanti Das for several years. Hon. Teacher of Indian Society of Oriental Arts. Solo Shows: 1999 - Gallery The Venue, Kolkata : 2005 – Gallery 52D, Kolkata : 2006- Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata : 2007 – Montage Arts, New Delhi : 2007 – State Art Gallery, Hyderabad : 2008 - Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata : 2008 – Images and Beyond, Kolkata : 2009 – Gallery 52D, Kolkata : 2010 – Gallery Images and Beyond : 2012 – Gallery Images and Beyond : 2015 – Gallery Images & Beyond, Kolkata : 2017 – Gallery Creative Strokes, Kolkata Group Show : 2005 - Kanishka Art Gallery, Kolkata 2005 – Montage Arts , New Delhi 2006 - Canvas Art Gallery 2006 - ITC Sonar Bangla Hotel 2006 - The Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture 2006 - Museum and Art Gallery, Kolkata 1992, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2000, 2001, 2003,2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 - Painting By Contemporary Artist Of Bengal Birla Academy of Art & Craft 2007,2009 , 2010 – Group Show by Montage Arts, New Delhi 2007, 2008, 2010 , “BENGAL –I, BENGAL - II “65 X 125’ HOTEL OBEROI – By Motage Arts,N.D. 2009 - Lokayata. Mulk Raj Anand Centere, New Delhi 2006 , 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013,2014,2015 Gallery Images and Beyond Gallery, Kolkata 2010 - Desire Arts Presents Inner Thoughts, Palm Court, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 2009 - Portraits & Landscapes,Ganges eterna art, Vivanta by Taj, ITPL, Whitefield, Bangalore 2011 - Academy Of FineArts, February..2011 2012, 2013, 2014 - “ BENGAL” , State Gallery of Fine Arts, Hyderabad. 2014 – AIRA , Hotel Castle Royale, Pune 2014 – Hues Of India, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur 2014 – Chemould, Kolkata 2015 – MOSA – Lalit kala Academy, New Delhi 2015 – Bengal Spectrum VI, India Habitat Centre, N.D. 2015 – Small Paintings, lalit Kala Academy, N.D. 2015 – Kala Mela 2015, Wisdom Society Of Creative Arts, New Delhi. 2016- Group 19, Images and Beyond, Kolkata 2016- Group 21, images and Beyond, Kolkata 2016 – Youth Guild Forum, Dhaka Bangladesh 2016 – Youth Guild Forum, Kolkata, Gorkhy sadan 2016 – Bengal , Gallery Arty Arts, Mumbai 2016- Bengal Masters , Gallery The Art Hub, Mumbai 2016- The Life of Art, The Art Hub, Mumbai 2016 – 6^th Oriental Painting Exhibition, Zainul Gallery. Dhaka, Bangladesh 2016 – Aguntuk, ICCR, Kolkata Workshop : Kolkata - 2005, 2006, 2007 in different Workshop in ITC , TAJ & Oriental Arts. Darjeeling of Fortune Hotel – under genesis in the year 2007. Gangtok.. Under Images and Beyond 2008 Shantiniketan Under Gallery 52D 2008 Mandarmani , Under Debashish Ghosh 2009 Bangalore, Under Soma Das 2009 Hyderabad , Under Deepak Jain 2010 New Delhi, Under De Montage Arts 2010 Ffort Raichak Resort under Images & Beyond 2010 Solluna Resort , Jim Corbett, Under Krishna maruti Centre for Conetmporary Art …2011 Srinagar , Under D.P.Dhar Memorial Trust… 2011 Dhaka University, Bangladesh, 2016 ART CRITIC NOTE: Swapan Das now in his late thirties, has become one of the best exponents of Indian painting. The neo-Bengal School that Abanindranath Tagore and his students has started had shown signs of decadence in the 1950-60s period. Than certain dedicated artist like Mrinal Kanti Das gave it a new thematic variations and directions. His student, particularly Swapan, took up from him pointers to the aesthetic adventure and went their own way. Both in wash and tempera swapan has done miniature format works, medium size ones and muralesque painting with same kind of ease, accuracy, and meticulousness. Swapan is a religious painter but believes that good religious art must be good art first and also true expression of inner experience of the artist. He pours himself out in all aspects of the subject matter, composition and the meanings communicated. In this exhibition one sees him moving slightly away from world of mythology to the life of Buddha. The first result of his meditations on Buddha is the culminating point of this exhibition and indicates his quest for meaning of life and art