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EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1968 MVA Painting, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda
1966 BVA Fine Art, Kala Bhawan, Santiniketan

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1981 Painters Orchestra, Kolkata
1978 Painters Orchestra, Kolkata
1976 Painters Orchestra, Kolkata
1974 Painters Orchestra, Kolkata
1970 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1968 Painters Orchestra, Kolkata

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010-11 'Writing Visuals', The...Selected Group Exhibitions
2010-11 'Writing Visuals', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata; W + K Exp, New Delhi
2010 'Symbols and Metaphors', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2009 'The Root of Everything', Gallery Mementos, Bangalore
2008 'Beyond Convention: A Glimpse of Contemporary Trends in Bengal Art', Anant Art Gallery, Kolkata
2008 'Review', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2007 'Pursuit Sculpture', Galerie 88, Kolkata
2006 Partha Pratim Deb, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
CIMA Annual 2006, Centre International Modern Art, Kolkata
2003 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata Group show, members of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts
2002 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata Group show, members of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts
2001 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata Group show, members of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Works on Paper, CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata.
2000 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata Group show, members of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
1999 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1998 Fabric sculpture, organized by the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata Contemporary Artists from Bengal, Ajah Gallery, Singapore Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1997 Solo exhibition, Painters Orchestra, Kolkata Movement of Indian Art - 50 years of independence, Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
1986 A Folio of Etchings, organized by the members of the Faculty of Visual Arts, on the occasion of the 125th birth celebration of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

PARTICIPATIONS
2011 Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Annual Exhibition, La-Mere, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, Kolkata

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in pre-partition Bengal in present-day Bangladesh, Partha Pratim Deb was initiated into art by Ramkinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee at Santiniketan. He then took a post-diploma from M. S. University, Baroda, in 1968, and taught at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, from 1972. His research on Nandalal Bose and on education resulted in a series of articles published from 1984-99 in the journal of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

Deb developed his vocabulary of visual representation based on creative innovations with mediums. His work crisscrosses trajectories of the indigenous folk tradition rooted in the rich art and craft of Santiniketan, with experimental pop art of the West.

Early guidance from Baij and Benode Behari and the analytical insight of K. G. Subramanyan and Jyoti Bhatt at Baroda gave Deb the impetus to explore set techniques and approaches to art. He experiments with an endless repertoire of discarded material, shifting and recycling them into a new pictorial language. Thus, he translates his ideas into multiple hybrid forms and through the unique metamorphosis of painting and sculpture. Dabbling in different mediums, he published a folio of serigraphs with KHOJ in 2006. Partha Pratim Deb lives and works in Kolkata.

The artist lives and works in Kolkata, India

Notification - We do not usually display Partha Pratim Deb's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.

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