Probal Banerjee

Probal Banerjee is born on 1st January, 1969 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is an inborn artist. Before doing his professional course on Art and Painting from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, he has been showcasing his Art and Paintings in different Art Galleries in Kolkata. Such an Artist did his Professional Course on Art in 1993. His family heritage plays an important role in devising the eclectic trend that Probal Banerjee displays his paintings. He has a spiritual bent of mind. He inherited these qualities but transformed them to suit his personality. There is no apparent religiosity or spirituality in his choice of subject, but his forms, which are derived from Eastern Impressionism or Post-Impressionism and infuse some of folk elements, reveal some sort of spiritual sobriety and concentration in delineation of lyrical beauty. Mythical world has been a source of subject in his paintings and he has delineated it from the standpoint of Indian Perspective of Art and Painting. Through linearity he creates visual pleasure that unveils the hidden treasures of beauty in life.

At one point of time, he was influenced by the Western Modernistic idioms which is more richer, but to grasp it properly, he gradually came to t...

Academic Qualification:
i) Ex- student of Govt. College of Art & Craft. Kolkata, India.
ii) DVA from Sarba Bharatiya Sangeet-O-Sanskriti Parishad Under Rabindra Bharati University.

Solo Exhibitions:
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata: 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2008.
Birla Academy, Kolkata: 1998, 2000.
Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata: 2001, 2004.
Chemould Art Gallery, Kolkata: 2002, 2008, 2009.
Eye On Art Gallery, 2010.




Group Shows:
Participated in Annual Exhibition of Govt. Art College in 1997, 1998, 1999.
Participated in West Bengal Fine Arts Exhibition in 1994, 1995, 1997.
Participated in Group Exhibitions at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata: 2004, 2006, 2008.
Birla Academy of Art & Culture (kolkata) 2006, 2009.
Academy of Fine Arts (Kolkata)-2005 & 2010
West Bengal Lekhak & Ganatantrick Shilpi Sansad
From 2000 To 2009 (TEN Years Continuously).
Sravasti Art & Culture Group
From 2002 to 2010. (Nine Years Continuously).
2010, Group Exhibition in Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi.