Jayanta Roy

Secondhand images filtered through media exert a powerful influence on our perception of reality. The distinctions between model/copy, mediated experience/tangible reality are all but blurred. This is where my journey begins. I exploit painting’s resilience as a medium to convey the multi-layered experience of contemporary life. It’s more an intellectual practice than an instinctive one, where texts and puns have vital roles. I deliberately leave my canvases white or off-white to underscore the objecthood of the canvas, but ultimately the conceptually framed images become more important than the conventional figure-ground relationship. I build on the legacies of pop, minimalism and conceptual art in a post-colonial milieu, where truth and reality are not as truthful and real as they may appear.

Bachelor of Visual Arts from Govt College of Art & Crafts in the year 1997, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

2014:
Group exhibition at Christies’ London

Group exhibition at Beers Contemporary, London


2013 :
Group exhibition at Abadi Art Space, New Delhi

2012:
Group Exhibition at Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata, India


2010-09:
 “B-Swarga”(:) solo show at Nature Morte (New Delhi), Bose
Pacia(Kolkata) and Lakeeren(Mumbai)
 Group show at Nature Morte ,New Delhi
 “Some Ice-bergs Easy to Avoid” at Bose Pacia, New York


2008:
 3 men show at the Gallery Nature Morte, Delhi,
 “Black & White”, at Tao Art Gallery


2007 :

 “Art addressing violence” , an exhibition at the Somokal Art Gallery
 An exhibition of paintings “Dynamic stillness” at Gallery Kanishka,
Kolkata
 Group show at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
 Group show at Gallery Nakshatra