Sanjoy Bose

Sanjoy Bose is an artist living and working in Kolkata, India. His art has been exhibited in galleries across the country and is internationally installed in homes and businesses via private commissions (as seen in Elle Decor). Bose acts on the board for Cultural Activists of Bengal and he participates reguarly as a street artist with Performers Independent, breathing life into public spaces.

For the past several years, Bose used art to help shape lives by encouraging a new generation of children and teens to think and respond to the world creatively through art classes at Kolkata-based NGO, New Light (featured in the NY Times best-selling book & American documentary, Half the Sky). He has also used that approach to workshops held by the same organization; seeking to heal and empower women who have been trapped in the commercialized sex trade.

Currently Bose is working on UNESCO-sponsored projects through ; a social enterprise aiming to preserve and celebrate the rich, cultural heritage of local artisans as a means of sustainable development.

Diploma in Western Painting from The Visual Art, a wing of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 1993

2016, Dead Man Walking film, Kolkata Independent Performance Arts Festival (KIPAF), Kolkata
2016, Street painting at Victoria Memorial, KIPAF, Kolkata
2016, Street painting on Cathedral Road, Vat Puja, Kolkata
2015, Navsar’s Nepal earthquake benefit, Visual Art Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2015, Temple in the Toilet collaborative installation, KIPAF, Kolkata
2014, Search, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2013, Freedom to Live, New Light Media Center, Kolkata
2009, Art Exhibition India, Ashok Art Gallery, Orissa 2008, India Art Summit, via Ashok Art Gallery, New Dehli
2008, Through the Looking Glass, Curated by Nanak Ganguly, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008, Reverberating Images, Suchitrra Arts Gallery, Mumbai
2008, Reverberating Images, Curated by Nanak Ganguly, NANDAN via Artist’s Centre, Mumbai
2008, Brushstrokes from India, Mystic Inspiration (UK) at Hyderabad Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2007, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ashok Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007, Brushstrokes from India, Mystic Inspiration (UK) at Total Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2007, Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: The Politics of Location, Samokal Art Gallery, Kolkata
2007, Exhibition curated by Garima Jain, New Delhi
2007, F...