1967
Overview
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic, art writer and curator resident in Kolkata. She graduated in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, followed by an MFA and PhD in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. She is currently Professor, Head of the Department of Graphics-Printmaking, and Dean of the Faculty of Visual Arts at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
Paula has been the recipient of the UGC Research Fellowship for doctoral studies (1993-98), the Artist-In-Residence Fellowship at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California (1997-98), Guest Artist at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Stuttgart under the INDART Artist Exchange Programme (2000), CWIT Research Grant & British Council, Kolkata Grant for independent research in the UK (2007), and Artist-in-Residence at the Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka (2008).
Trained as a printmaker, Paula’s repertoire as an artist includes broadsheets, artist’s books, objects, installation, animation, and community art projects. She works across mediums that include printmaking, textiles and embroidery, papermaking, drawing, moving image, and much else. Paula’s work addresses gender binaries, enforced migration, loss of home, heritage and environment, and a concern for conservation of societies, communities and ecologies. Her language is distinctly feminine, therefore laying claim to methods and materials that underline feminist thought.
Currenlty based in Kolkata, India.
