Atin Basak

b. 1966

Atin Basak graduated from Government College of Art and
Craft in 1991. Later he went to Baroda to do his Masters from
M.S. University. In 1996 and 97, he was invited as a visiting
lecturer by the Director of Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts,
Cean, France. In 2000, he became Charles Wallace India
Trust Scholar in UK. Subsequently, he joined the Printmakers
Workshop, Edinburgh. Atin began experimenting with engraving
and in 2004, he was invited to be a visiting lecturer in Ecole des
Beaux Arts la Reunion, a French colony and island in the Indian
Ocean above Madagascar. Through his career he has received
numerous awards and participated in a long list of exhibitions.
He lives and works in Kolkata.