Moutushi Chakraborty

Moutushi Chakraborty is an alumnus of Wimbledon School of Art. Her first solo show was held at the Nehru Center - India High Commission in London in 2002 and her recent solo show in 2012 at Gallery Time & Space in Bangalore. Moutushi has exhibited widely in her own country and abroad. Her works have been collected by art enthusiasts from world over. Creativity for her is a self-exploratory method of progression and confrontation. She feels that the body as a medium most intimately entangled with the psyche, suffices as a canvas for the allegorical expressions of life. What it endures is what it expresses through lumps, folds and crinkles while hiding some more. She traces and retraces her steps with this notion of the body and its inner and outer sensibilities, assimilating with the time and space they inhabit. The artist sees incidents as a chain of events...repeated, remembered and cherished. Human experiences of vanity, pain and ecstasy inspires her to ruminate and thereby informs her inquest as an artist. Through drawings, prints, paintings and photography Moutushi aspires to convey these sensibilities imbibed from life around. An obsession with 'form' garners her attention towards natural entities like stones, plants, shells e...

2002 M.A. Printmaking, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK.
2000 M.A. Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
1998 B.F.A. Graphic Art, Kalabhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.

AWARDS
2001-02 Commonwealth Fellowship for Arts and Crafts, UK.
2001-02 Charles Wallace India Trust Award for Visual Arts, British Council, UK.
2000-01 Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship
2000 Gold Medal from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda.

SOLO SHOWS
2012 Parables – visual essays curated by Lina Vincent at Gallery Time & Space, Bangalore.
2002 Identity an Illusion solo show at Nehru Center, India High Commission, London.

TWO PERSON SHOWS
2006 Nostalgia at Rightlines Art Gallery, Bangalore.
2005 Identity Conundrums at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2013 Beyond Prints curated by Dr.Paula Sengupta, Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata.
2013 IMPRESSIONS - an exhibition of prints, Galerie88, Kolkata.
2013 Fluid - A Group Show of Watercolour works, SITE, Baroda.
2013 RESIST by EnGendered Gallery Delhi at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai.
2013 R.A.P.E. – Rare Acts of Political Engagement, curated by Johny ML, Art Bull, New Delhi.

2012 Georgie Project show at Griffin Gallery and auction by Sotheby’s at The Studio Building, London.
2012 Contemporary Indian Printmaking presented by CHHAAP with Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand.
2012 United Art Fair, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

2011 Roots/Routes of Bengal curated by Dr.Archana Roy at Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore.

2010 Art Bengaluru – represented by Gallery Time & Space, U...