Anita Roy Chowdhury

Anita Roy Chowdhury was born into a distinguished elite family. As a child, she showed her preference for art. She was a very imaginative and surprisingly innovative child. After finishing school, she joined the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. In class, she was fortunate to have as classmates Dhiraj Choudhury, Sunil Das, Jogen Chowdhury, and Shyamasree Basu, who would become important artists of the 1960s. In college, she was taught by Satyen Ghosal. Gopal Ghosh was her professor in her second year, who was very liberal and allowed Anita to use colors freely. He can be considered Anita's pioneer in the use of watercolors. She joined the Society of Contemporary Artists in 1959 and the group organized its first solo exhibition in 1962. From 1969 she became a member of the Calcutta Painters and participated in group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in most of the metropolitan cities of India and abroad. Some of these were AIFACS, New Delhi in 1963, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta in 1964, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay in 1966, Sarala Art Centre, and Madras in 1969, among others

She is one of the pioneer artists not only of Bengal but also of India and abroad for her brilliant work of Indigenous forms and application of colors. Gifted with an inner sense of music, she embraces that realm of the mind where words and melody merge with visual symphony. Her paintings are nothing but the voice of nature. Every moment deserves eternal life transformations, having life and death simultaneously. That is why He has been able to maintain this within His creations.

BORN

1939 Calcutta

DIED

2017 Howrah

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1998 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta

1995 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta

1991 Center Art Gallery, Calcutta

1980 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 

1977 AFA, Calcutta

1969 Sarala Art Centre, Chennai

1968 AFA, Calcutta

1966 Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai

1964 AFA, Calcutta

1963 AIFACS, New Delhi

1962 SCA Gallery Kolkata.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions in Kolkata, New Delhi and Chennai. 

PARTICIPATIONS

1963 AIFACS, New Delhi

1964, 1968, 1977, 1980 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta

COLLECTION

His works are part of several public and private collections in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Germany.