Rochana Dubey Mitra

Rochana is a Princeton, New Jersey-based artist born and brought up in Kolkata, India. She trained in fashion design at the FIT(NY) affiliated National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi, India. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Jadavpur University. She pursues her interests professionally as an artist, designer and photographer.

"As an Indian contemporary artist living in diaspora, memory and cultural identity inform my work. My art explores nuances of the psychological and social landscape around me through a process of reflection and meditation. Many years of working as a formally trained designer, I am tuned to the exploration of media and materials and enjoy working on techniques to manipulate them. The need to innovate drives me to create art that is at once singular and non-conforming to familiar genres. I work primarily with acrylics on canvas, and enjoy experimenting with additive mediums and techniques to create dimensional effects."

B.A. Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, 1998.
B.A. English Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,1995.

2017
RE:ARTISTE 'Transformation', Finalist, Gallery MC, New York City.
Art Fast, 9-Day Creative Challenge, New York City.
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India.
Art of the Flower Open Juried Show, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia.
“Dharma in the 21st century”, West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton Junction, NJ.
Speakeasy Soiree Art Auction, West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton Junction, NJ.

2016
Clio Art Fair, New York City.
IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2016, Flushing Town Hall, NY.
IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2016, Kapoor Galleries, New York City.
Wondrous On Witherspoon, Princeton, NJ.
IAAC Erasing Borders 2016, The Jan Hus Presbyterian Church Sanctuary, New York City.
IAAC Erasing Borders 2016, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ.
‘My Paradise’, Juried show at West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton Junction, NJ.
37th Annual Juried Art Exhibition at the Monmouth Museum, NJ.
Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial Works on Paper Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia.
'Generations X: Razzle Dazzle', A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

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2015
'Off the Wall’, West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton Junction, NJ.
'Photo-Transformations', West Windso...