sukanya ghosh
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Sukanya's artistic practice spans painting, photography, animation and the moving image. She works with the minutiae of urban life, the fantasy of popular culture and the shape shifting of memory. Her work with family archives, found images, medical imagery and text traverse illusory narratives and sensory passages, working extensively with the techniques of collage, erasure and deconstruction.
She says "My practice has been rooted in a combination of collected photographs, objects and collage which I express in constructed fictions. At the core of what I do, is a continuing exploration of the intimate and the quotidian alongside fictional landscapes and speculative futures. My works are a product of extensive re-working, layering and erasures. I work both with physical materials as well as with digital interventions. I am deeply interested in the processes of analogue photography and printmaking processes. This combination of techniques allows me to work with nuances of the ‘archive’, ‘location’, and ‘past’. I explore how the question of the role loss, recollection and imagination play in how we build identities – both individual and collective. In removing specifics of time, place and event, I create my own mythologies. I extend these ideas to look at the visual construct of cities to work on 'landscapes of loss' and the politics of 'belonging' and 'land' and 'home'. She has extensive graphic design experience, is an occasional teacher and has managed Arts programmes. She lives and works between Delhi and Calcutta. |
curriculum vitae
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b. 1973, Calcutta
Education 1996-2001 Animation Film Design, (Advanced Entry Programme) National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad 1992-96 B.F.A. In Painting (1st Class) Faculty Of Fine Arts, M. S. University Of Baroda Awards /Honours / Selections RCA x SAF Senior Artist Residency, Royal College of Art, London 2024 Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, Artist-in-Residence, 2023 Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund Grant 2021 FLOW Photo festival: Winner, Wall Exhibition 2020 Project Commission: 5 Million Incidents 2020 Flash France Grant 2017 Fòcas India Programme: Selected artist, 2017-18, Fòcas Scotland Charles Wallace India Trust Award 2008 Artist-in-residence 2008, Spike Island Bristol, UK 60 X 60 Project Commission 2007, Motiroti, UK Independent Fellowship, 2007, Sarai, New Delhi Artist-In-Residence Grant, 2006, French Embassy in India Artist-In-Residence, 2006, AIR Vallauris, France Commission: Commonwealth Vision Awards, 2002 Solo Shows/ Projects: 2024 Field Measures, Serendipity Arts Festival, Panjim, Goa 2024 Maps of Belonging, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London 2023 The Parting of Ways, Curated by Rahaab Allana, Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai 2020 A Man, Some Trees and a Dog, Five Million Incidents, Goethe Institute - Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi 2019 Repairing the Work of Time Curated by Francois Cheval, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China 2008 Dis.clocation/s, Spike Island, Bristol 2006 Cartes Postales, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France Selected Group Shows/ Projects: 2025 Mycelial Legacies III, Curated by Deeksha Nath, Space Studio, Baroda 2024 Manifold: Contemporary Perspectives from India, curated by Arko Datto, Galleri Image, Aarhus 2024 All Together Now, India International Centre, Delhi 2024 Imaging Arriving Departing, curated by Veerangana Solanki, Exhibit 320, Delhi 2024 Sheher Prakriti Devi, curated by Gauri Gill, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai 2023 Mycelial Legacies I, Curated by Deeksha Nath, Bikaner House, Delhi 2023 Is the Image Even Human? Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Cervantes Institute, Delhi 2022 The Texture of Promises, Curated by Alejandro Castellote, Kuxta Kultur Artegunea, Tabakalera, San Sebastian 2022 Imagined Documents, Curated by Ravi Agarwal, Rencontres d'Arles 2022 2021 VAICA: Indian Contemporary Video Art Festival, online 2021 It Glows Light, curated by Ashish Sahoo and Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Delhi 2021 Vantage Point: Sharjah 9, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah 2021 FLOW photo festival, Highland Print Studio, Inverness, Scotland 2021 Mixed Media Musings, Art Heritage, Delhi 2019 Catalyst, curated by Rahaab Allana, Jimei x Arles Festival, Xiamen, China 2019 Ellipsis: Between Word & Image, curated by Rahaab Allana, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur 2018 Ephemeral: New Futures for Passing Images, curated by Rahaab Allana, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa 2018 Mutation: Indo-French Image Encounters, curated by Rahaab Allana & Francois Cheval, 24 Jorbagh, Delhi 2017 Goa Photo Curated by Akshay Mahajan 2017-18 Fòcas India programme: Document Multiple venues, Scotland and India 2016 The Surface of Things - Photography in Process, curated by Rahaab Allana, Alliance Francaise, Delhi and 2017 Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai 2017 10 Artists, Art Heritage, Delhi 2016 Selection at Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, ‘videotheque’ section 2015 Tales & Fables from India & Japan: Animation, Film & Photography, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Yokohama 2013 Lateral, curated by Heidi Fichtner, Kona, New Delhi. 2013 People Like Us, Studio show, Delhi. 2012 Matter, curated by Deeksha Nath, Gallery Blueprint 12, Delhi 2012 Monitor 8, SAVAC, Toronto, 2012. 2011 The Five Senses with Agathe de Bailliencourt, The Loft, Mumbai. 2010 Feminine Recitals, curated by Veerangana Solanki, Exhibit 320, New Delhi. 2010 Say Everything, Gallery Experimenter, Kolkata. 2010 Her Work is Never Done, Gallery BMB, Mumbai. Curated by Bose Krishnamachari. 2009 Gennext IV, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata. 2009 The Idea of the Book, open studio at Khoj, Delhi 2008 Building A project for the film Dhobi Ghat, Camelot, Mumbai Selected Filmography Secret River Single Channel , animation, collage, B&W photographs, HD 1920x1080, 2024 • Field Measures, Serendipity Festival Goa 2024, Maps of Belonging, 2024, RCA London Konkal Single Channel , animated B&W photographs, HD 1920x1080, 4’ loop, 2024 Sheher, Prakriti, Devi, Ishara Foundation, 2024 A Man, Some Trees and a Dog Animated experiments in-situ. As part of the Five Million Incidents project, Max Mueller Bhavan-Goethe Institut, New Delhi. Isosceles Forest Single Channel Optical collage, 3' loop, 2018 Repairing the Work of Time, 2019, China;Catalyst,Jimei x Arles Festival, China; Ephemeral: New Futures for Passing Images, Goa, 2018 A Chair Walks into A Landscape Single Channel Optical collage, 2018 Mutations- Indo French Image encounters, Delhi Let me Take you Far Away Double Channel Optical collage, 2016 The Surface of Things - photography in process, Delhi, Mumbai Another Land Optical Collage, 2015 Selection At Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, ‘Videotheque’ Section, 2016; ‘Tales & Fables From India & Japan: Animation, Film & Photography’, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Yokohama 2013 ‘2 Promotional Animation Films’ For Think Festival, Goa. Commissioned By Tehelka. The Isolation Of Pectoralis Major Video Collage Loop, 2010-2012 ‘Publica’ Delhi, 2013; ‘Monitor 8’ SAVAC, Toronto, 2012; ‘Matter’ Gallery Blueprint 12, New Delhi, 2012; ‘Her Work Is Never Done - II’ Gallery BMB, Mumbai., 2010 Flicker Video Collage Loop, 2010 ‘Say Everything’ Gallery Experimenter, Kolkata. Dis·Location/S’: Toast & Tea, Ms Kirby’s Eyes, Untitled#1, Drawing Text Installed Video Collages At Spike Island, Bristol, 2008 Mapping Movement Video Collage. 2007 Multiple Screenings Worldwide For Project 60x60, 360° Programme By Motiroti, Uk Cartes Postales Video Collage, 2006 Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France Hibiscus, Bougainvilla, Leaf 30 Secs each, Colour, Video Collage 2006 5 Spots For Peace 30 Secs, Colour. PeaceWorks, Seagull Foundation For The Arts 2003 Rainbow Film 12.5 Mins. , Colour, Live Action 2003 Produced by The Partnership Foundation, Netherlands. Self Portrait With A Glass 1 Min., Colour, Live Action and Still Photographs, 2002 Selection: Cinematexas:Internationa Short Film Festival: Face-Off, 2004 Broomsticks 1 Min., Colour, Live Action, 2002 Made With A Grant From The Royal Commonwealth Society, London. Reverie* 2.5 Mins. , Colour, Traditional Hand Drawn Animation* Paper, Paint And Photocopies, 1999 Selection: Short Film Programme, Short & Sweet, Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, April, 2003 Selection2003: IDPA With The Alliance Francaise De Bombay: Showcasing Indian Women Film Makers Oops!* Film For Children, 3 Mins., Colour, Traditional Hand Drawn Animation*, 1998 , Paper, Ink And Paint. Part Of Of Nid Student Films Awarded Special Mention, Ottowa Film Festival For Best School Category; 3rd Prize For Animation Film, Indian Documentary Producers Association 2001 Selection, Mumbai International Film Festival; Part Of Retrospective Package Of Indian Animation At Zagreb 2000* Shot On Kodak Eastman Colour Negative, On The Oxberry Camera, And Edited On Non Linear Editing System, ©Nid Selected Work Experience
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