Tapas Sardar

Tapas Sardar, the young and talented painter from Kolkata, acquired a strong base in academic naturalistic style through his art education at Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. He completed his B.V.A and M.V.A from the same institution in 1997 and 2001. Since then he has been working in full vigor and with sincere commitment to the temporal reality and aesthetic values and has earned several accolades and honors from various institutions in recognition to his artistic achievements. Though proficient in academicism the beauty and originality of Sardar’s paintings rest on how he transcends the bounds of naturalism and induces a kind of meditative inwardness to extract the inner essence of the consciousness and personal traits of the characters he depicts. These characters are mostly women coming out of urban or rural ambience of the land, whose tryst with this life is always replete with various layers of light and darkness. Sardar tries to unmask that darkened zone. He has, therefore, to resort to the expressionist verve and amalgamate it with his naturalistic modes. The expressionistic structures intrude surreptitiously specially through chromatic arrangements into the general design of naturalism and bestow a kind of my...

Master of Visual Art in Painting from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata,C.U.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Group Exhibition organized by AMBO Art Gallery, Kolkata

2008 'Continuity amidst change' Group Exhibition organized by Verandah at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

2007 'The Colors of Spring' Group Exhibition of renowned artists organized by Mind's
Eye Communications at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2007 Group Exhibition of ‘Group Fifty’ at The Alliance Francaise, New Delhi

2006 'A Glimpse of Bengal Contemporary Paintings' Group Exhibition organized by Mind's Eye Communications in the gallery of Collector's Stop, New Delhi

2006 'Figure in Nature' Group Exhibition including the works of fifty four contemporary artist organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

2006 'New Works' Group Exhibition organized by Gallery Kanishka's, Kolkata

2003 Group Exhibition of an Artist Group 'Era' at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

PARTICIPATIONS 2011 “Creativity Unlimited – II” An Exhibition of Recent Creations by Upcoming & Eminent Artists organized by Masters Collection Art Gallery, Kolkata

2010 All India Exhibition of Art organized by Indian National Forum of Art and Culture, Kolkata at Lalit kala Academy, New Delhi

2010 ‘Mons...