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Born in 1982 in West Bengal, India, Anjan Modak is a contemporary artist based in Kolkata. He graduated with a BVA and an MFA in Painting from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in 2007 and 2009 respectively.

Anjan Modak feels that modern society is always going through a crisis which he defines as disasters, be it terrorist attacks or the desire for supremacy of the Gorkhas of North Bengal. The political and social state of the country marks his thinking, which has a powerful influence on his paintings. His paintings also reflect his questions and expressions about the country's political and social condition.

Anjan Modak lives and works in Kolkata.

BORN

1982 in West Bengal

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

2009 MFA Painting from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

2007 BVA Painting from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Emami Art Kolkata

2020 Fragmented Life at Emami Art, Kolkata

2020 Emami Art at India Art Fair, New Delhi

2016 Black, White, and More Kolkata

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Emami Art, Kolkata

2018 Paint Our World, organised by Agapi 2 at ITC Sonar, Kolkata

2017 Ahuja Art Museum, Kolkata

2017 CIMA Awards Show, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata

2019 Fictive, Gallery Range, Kolkata

2016 Assortment, Emami Chisel Art Gallery

2015 Abanindranath Tagore Gallery, ICCR, Kolkata

2014 Shublab, Gallery Matrix, Kolkata

2014 Rajya Charukala Parishad Annual Exhibition, Kolkata

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 86th All India Annual Art Exhibition, New Delhi

2013 Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts in association with Sensorium, Kolkata

2013 Birla Academy of Art and Culture Annual Exhibition, Kolkata

2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Time & Space Gallery, Bangalore

2011 Art Fairs in Mumbai

2023 India Art Fair, Delhi

2020, 2021, 2022 Mumbai Art Fair

2016 Jaipur Art Fair

2015, 2016, 2017 India Art Story Kolkata

2010 Tamarind Art Gallery, New York, USA

2009 Gallery Exposure, Kolkata

2009 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

2008 Tamarind Art Gallery, New York, USA

2008 Ice Skating Rink, Contemporary Art Fair (organized by Habitat Foundation, New Delhi), Kolkata

2008 The Bangladesh Gallery, Kolkata

2008 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

2007 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

2007 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

2006 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

2005 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

2004 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

2003 Annual College Exhibition, Kolkata

HONORS AND AWARD

2009 Rabindra Bharati University Creative Award