Mandira Bhaduri

I would like to share a recent review of my artworks by Dallas Jeff. Here is the link :

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I am an artist and a language teacher.

I started to paint seriously when I moved to USA from Kolkata for the job of teaching Bangla language in the University of Michigan. Uprooting from my known world had a serious impact on me. Away from my family, my friends and the comfort of my culture put me in a void, in a feeling of nothingness.Then the most beautiful thing happened to me. World of colors, lines and forms engulfed me and I found that art was becoming a channel through which I could express my happiness, pain, tears, laughter, fear and courage. I try to make sense of this nonsensical harsh world through my painting.

After leaving University of Michigan, I moved to Chicago as a Bengali lecturer in the University of Chicago and taught there until June,2016. Currently, I am in Kolkata, India. I am teaching Bangla language online, enjoying being in my hometown and missing Chicago terribly as it was my second home for nine years in a land far far away.

Masters degree in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1989.

Taught Bangla language in American Institute of Indian Studies, Kolkata from 1991-2004, University of Michigan 2004-2007, University of Chicago 2007- 2016

Solo exhibition in Shilpangan gallery,Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17-21 December, 2011 and in the University of Chicago sponsored by Committee of Southern Asia in 2013.