Oishi Dutta

Oishi Roy Dutta’s practice examines the shifting relationship between organic life, digital systems, and ecological reality. Working across drawing, collage, moving image, photography, and digital media, she explores how technological mediation reshapes perception, embodiment, and human relationships with the natural world. Her work situates the body within an increasingly engineered environment, where lived experience is filtered through screens, data, and algorithmic logic.

Her research often begins with speculative and deliberately absurd questions, such as how a fish swims online? or does data die? These inquiries emerge from prolonged engagement with digital culture, particularly the cycles of desire, distraction, and consumption produced by targeted advertising and algorithmic platforms. Within this condition, organic life is fragmented and flattened, transformed into image, commodity, or content, resulting in a growing dissociation from both the physical body and ecological systems.

In recent work, these concerns have expanded into a sustained exploration of environmental anxiety and ecological loss. Dutta investigates how climate collapse is increasingly addressed through representation and simulation rather than material...

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, London
MA Contemporary Art Practice | 2024 - 2025
CAP LIVE, Live installation as part of CAP FEST
HANGER SPACE, RCA BATTERSEA, April 2025
CAP Cinema, Short film show
GENESIS THEATRE , April 2025
GRADUATE SHOW REPRESENTATIVE

COLLEGE OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
BFA in Applied Arts| 2018 – 2022
(Graduated with distinction, 3rd Rank)

Publications

Times of India

OISHI ROY DUTTA: A SPACE BETWEEN INTERSECTION
AND INTERROGATION.
Artists interview with M-A (SPACE BETWEEN)

Architect and Interiors India

ArchitectureLive!

Exhibitions
Speak of the Devil
Film screening (ROW), GalleryX Dublin, May 2026

Roha Gallery
Soft Witness publication Exhibition, May 2026

Lee Miller curation, GIF
TATE Britain, February 2026

Provisional We
Handbag Factory, July 2025

Soft Witness: 50 Artists, 50 Stories
publication feature, archived in British library digital collections
July 2025

Royal College of Art, Arts and Humanities Graduate Show
RCA Battersea, June 2025

Thin Skinned | FLEAUR DE PEU
Library Space, Battersea, May 2025

Blooming Papers
SOMERSET HOUSE, London, March 2025

About Us! Scratch artists’ Showcase,
SOUTHBANK CENTRE, London, March 2025

Rites of Ruins
SAFEHOUSE 1, London, March 2025

Earth to Earth
GORST ROAD STUDIOS, Lonodon, January 2025

UN(RESTRAINED)
MF Hussain Art Gallery, NEW Delhi, APRIL 2023