Sudipta Modi

Sudipta Modi is an Indian artist based in London whose work employs tenacious experimentation of theatricality and cinematic languages in art.

For her latest series ‘Mostly I want a garden now’ she looked into photographs of nuclear explosions and the formation of mushroom clouds. She uses found photo-images and arranges them with her own ‘Bathing- Selfies’. Photomontages then construct an immortal vision from the raw materials.

The colours for this series are inspired by polar lights which are indicative of the limitations of human civilization in the cosmic world.

The images of those explosions have become a cliché; shock, terror and awe have faded into a mild surprise.

She reflects, “The supreme deterrent, once romanticized, now co-exists as an immortal element. The human search for immortality has led to technological archaeology that is contra-nature; it waits a million years to be discovered.”

She received an MFA from Wimbledon College of Arts, University Arts London, studied for an MA in Theatre and Mass Communication from Rabindra Bharati University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Calcutta University, India.

She collaborated with theatre actors, fine artists, street musicians, and live-m...

2016 Master of Fine Arts Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, UK

SOLO EXHIBITION
2014 Vernissage, Curated by Lambeth Open is an annual Open Arts Project, London.
2010 Mundane Monologue, Chitrakoot Art gallery, Kolkata, India
SELECTED PARTICIPATION SHOWS
2018 Songs of Spring, curated by Sama Arts, Asia House London, UK
2016 MFA Show, Wimbledon College of Arts, London UK
2016 Foyer Gallery Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Arts curated by Monster/Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
2016 I knew who I was, KTCH, curated by Freespace Project, UK
2015 Shift, Menier Gallery London, UK
2015 Camberwell Arts Festival, London, UK
2015 Index, The Crypt Gallery London, UK
2015 Wilding the edges, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL UK
2015 Map Your Oxygen, A scripted shamanic live media act, Wimbledon College of Arts, UK
2014 The Uncurated Show, Hopkinsons21, Nottingham, UK.
2013 Human Rights? #MIGRANTES, curated by Spazio-Tempo Arte, Italy.