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Jayashree Chakravarty
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Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Khoai in Tripura in 1956, but grew up in a developing suburb of Kolkata. Witnessing the lush green landscape of her childhood give way to a grey mass of concrete would later influence her work, which often addresses old and new cityscapes. Describing her work as autobiographical and dreamlike, Chakravarty crafts her own unique idiom to express ideas of truth, nature, and unity. She often experiments with organic...
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Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Khoai in Tripura in 1956, but grew up in a developing suburb of Kolkata. Witnessing the lush green landscape of her childhood give way to a grey mass of concrete would later influence her work, which often addresses old and new cityscapes. Describing her work as autobiographical and dreamlike, Chakravarty crafts her own unique idiom to express ideas of truth, nature, and unity. She often experiments with organic materials, paper, rice paper, tissue, and cellophane creating fluid and transparent images that lend themselves to multiple interpretations.
The artist completed her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, in 1978, and received a postgraduate diploma from M S University, Vadodara, in 1980. In 1993, she migrated to France, where she worked as an artist in residence in Aix-en-Provence for two years, where she came across and was influenced by the French art movement Supports/Surfaces, and the work of painter Claude Viallat.
In her works, Chakravarty uses superimposed forms, similar to sketches that cave painters worked on before they mapped them on the walls of caves. She believes that relating to human beings of a distant country and a different culture expanded the horizons of her imagination, and forced certain pre-conceived images to change. Chakravarty’s ink on paper sketches are an exercise in transforming personal experience into mystical truth.
Chakravarty has exhibited her work at museums and galleries across the world. Her works also form a part of the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and the Chandigarh Museum. Chakravarty lives and works in Kolkata
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Born
1956
Khoai, Tripura
Education
1993-1995 Artist in Residence at École d' Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
1980 Postgraduate Diploma, Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Vadodara
1978 BFA, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Sightings: Out of the Wild,...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Sightings: Out of the Wild, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida
2019 A Wired Ecology, Akar Prakar, New Delhi
2017 Earth as Haven: Under The Canopy of Love, Musée National Des Arts Asiatiques Guimet, Paris and Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai
2016 'Life will Never be the Same', in association with Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) at Musee Des Arts Asiatiques De Nice, France2014 'If you will stay close to nature...', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2009 'The Wind Whispers', Aicon, London 2007 Drawing Centre, SoHo, USA 2007 ‘Where the Sand Meets The Sky’, Bodhi Art, New York 2006 ‘In The Very Face Of The Time’, Galerie 88, Kolkata 2004 Bose Pacia Gallery, New York 2003 ‘Route Map of Experience’, IHC Visuals Art Gallery, New Delhi 2000 ‘Thoughts Ricochet’, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi 1999 Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata 1998 ‘The Drawing Room’, The Drawing Center, New York 1997 Gallery 7, Mumbai 1995 Edole d’ Art, Aix-en-Provence 1994 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 1992 Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1992 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1992 Saksi Gallery, Chennai 1990 Gallery 7, Mumbai 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 1988 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1983 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1982 Urja Art Gallery, Baroda
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2019 Kolkata/Santiniketan, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2014 Beneath the Black: Part 2, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
2012 'Aviraam: Celebrating the Pioneer Spirit- SH Raza at 90', presented by The Raza Foundation at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2011 'The Lost Sparrow', presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011 'Form and Formlessness', Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon 2011 'The Aviary', Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata
2011 'Enduring Legacy', Akar Prakar, Kolkata; Neumeister Gallery, Munich 2011 'Palimpsest', Aicon Gallery, New York 2011 'Narrations, Quotations & Commentaries', Grosvenor Gallery, London 2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi 2010 'Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference', Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre; British Council; Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi 2010-11 'Writing Visuals', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata; W + K Exp, New Delhi 2010 'Invisible Cities', Aicon Gallery, New York 2010 'Tales of Silence', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi 2010 'Nature Revisited', Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata 2010 'Size Matters or Does it?', Part2 at Latitude 28, New Delhi 2010 'Beyond Object hood', presented by Gandhara Art Gallery at Nandalal Bose Hall, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata 2009-10 'Unclaimed Spaces', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi 2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi 2009 'Threshold: Forging Narratives in South Asian Contemporary Art', Aicon Gallery, New York 2009 'Divagations: Spaces of Possibility', Raza Foundation Awardees Show, Art Alive, New Delhi 2008 'Baroda: A Tale of Two Cities', (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara 2008 'Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi 2008 'Of Personal Narratives And Journeys', Bodhi Art, Gurgaon 2008 'Tales, Reflection and Constructs', Galerie 88, Kolkata 2008 ‘Excavations: Memory, Myth, Membrane’, Art Musings, Mumbai 2007 ‘Indian Art III/III: Here and Now: Young Voices from India’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London 2005 ‘Towards Abstraction’, Bodhi Art and Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi 2005 ‘Angkor- The Silent Centuries’, Bodhi Art, Singapore and New Delhi 2005 ‘Paths of Progression’, Bodhi Art and Saffronart, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, New York 2004 ‘Stree’, Paintings by Contemporary Indian Women Artists, Bodhi Art, Singapore 2002 ‘Perspecta’, organized by Galerie88, Kolkata, Sponsored by UBS, at Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London 2001-2 ‘Secular Practice; Recent Art from India’, organized by Hoopoe Curatorial at Optica, Montreal and Vancouver, Canada 2001 ‘New Works’, Galerie88, Kolkata 2001 ‘Tramjatra’, public art event organized by RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 1998 ‘Multimedia-Art of the 90s’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata 1998 Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1998 National Council for Cultural Arts & Letters-Contemporary Indian Art, Al-Funoon Gallery, Dhahiat Abdullah Al Salem, Kuwait 1997 ‘Colors of Independence’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi 1997 ‘Tryst with Destiny-Art from Modern India’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 1997 ‘Major Trends in Indian Art’, New Delhi 1997 ‘Fire and Life’, organized by Asia Pacific at IMA, Brisbane, Canberra 1997 ‘Women Artists of India – A Celebration of Independence’, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland 1997 ‘Gouache and Contemporary Painting’, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi 1997 ‘The Looking Glass Self – An Exhibition of Self Images’, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai 1996 Art Today, New Delhi 1996 ‘Highlights’, curated by Center for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996 ‘Fire and Life’, an international artists exchange residency between India & Australia 1995 ‘Water colors – A Broader Spectrum –1’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1992 ‘Subjective Eye’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1991 ‘Journey Within Landscape’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1990 ‘Indian Contemporary Artists’, organized by MICA, Melbourne 1990 ‘Art Mosaic’, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi 1990 ‘Gadhya Parva Exhibition’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1989 ‘Indian Eclectics’, sponsored by French Embassy & Sanskrit Pratisthan, New Delhi 1989 Gallery Chemould, Kolkata 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 1988 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata 1987 Chitrakala, Stockholm, organized by Festival of India and Kulturhuset, Sweden
1984, 82, 80 National Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
Participations
2007 Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York represented by Aicon Gallery, New York
1997 Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1997 9th Triennial - India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
2008 Raza Award, Raza Foundation
1997 Honorable Mention Award, Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1991 Scholarship, Government of France
1989 British Council Visitorship Grant
1982 Elizabeth Green Shield Foundation Grant, Canada
1980 Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
1979 Government of India Cultural Scholarship
1979 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
2008 Raza Award, Raza Foundation
1997 Honorable Mention Award, Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1991 Scholarship, Government of France
1989 British Council Visitorship Grant
1982 Elizabeth Green Shield Foundation Grant, Canada
1980 Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
1979 Government of India Cultural Scholarship
1979 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
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