Shrine Empire Gallery

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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

Solo Exhibitions:

2022

‘Now They Stopped Building Granaries,’ Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2018

Solo show, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai

Group Exhibitions:

2024

Way of the Forest, 421 Arts Campus, Dubai

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, New Delhi

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India

Colomboscope curated by Sarker Protick, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung with Artistic Director Natasha Ginwala, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2023

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

Art Mumbai, Shrine Empire, Maharashtra, India

2022

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi

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

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:

2024

Art Laguna Prize Finalist

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) resides and works in Kolkata. Sangita finished her degree in printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University’s Faculty of Visual Arts, Kolkata. She has been engaged with the 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’s selected exhibition include the 8th edition of Colomboscope curated by Sarker Protick, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung with Artistic Director Natasha Ginwala, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2024); “Now They Stopped Building Granaries,” Solo exhibition, Shrine Empire, New Delhi (2022); “Legal Alien,” curated by Meera Menezes, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2019); Serendipity Arts Festival, curated by Rahaab Allana, Goa, India (2018); “When They Stopped Dancing,” Solo show, Clark House Initiative in collaboration with Shrine Empire, Mumbai, India (2018); “EXPERIMENTS,” Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India (2016); “Art for Young Collectors,” Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (2014).

Sangita is a finalist for the Arte Laguna Award 2024. In 2015, she also received the CIMA Jury Award. Sangita Maity was part of the Arthshila x Khoj Residency in 2022 and participated in the Khoj Peers Residency 2014 at the Khoj Artists Association in New Delhi. The Government of India granted her the Junior Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture, 2018–2020.