Sanat Kar

b. 1935

Sanat Kar joined the Government College of Art and Craft,
Calcutta in 1950. In 1952, along with fellow-students Kar
formed a group called The Artists’ Circle. He graduated from
the Art College in 1955. He held teaching jobs first at Calcutta
Boy’s School and then in 1978 at Kala Bhavan, Vishva Bharati
in Santiniketan. He participated in the formation of the Society
of Contemporary Artists in 1960. Since 1951 he has held quite
a number of solo exhibitions in Calcutta, New Delhi, Bombay
and Santiniketan. He has participated in a number of National
and International exhibitions including the Festival of India at
the Meguro Museum of Art and Takaoka Municipal Museum
of Art, Japan (1988); India in Print, Koninklijk Institute, Vorde,
Amsterdam (1983); and Indian Printmaking Today, Jehangir Art
Gallery, Bombay (1985). He has received the Kala Vibhushan
(1997), Shiromani Puruskar, Kolkata (1996), and Bengal LKA
Award (1993). Kar lives and works in Kolkata.