Tapan Ghosh

b. 1943

Tapan Ghosh graduated in Fine Arts from the Government College
of Arts and Craft, Kolkata, 1965. Since then he has held
more than twenty-seven solo shows in Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru,
New Delhi, Paris, and Norway. He has also participated
in several major group shows in India and abroad. He obtained
a French Government scholarship in 1969-1971; Royal Norwegian
Government Fellowship (1971); UNESCO Fellowship
in Montreal, Canada (1975); Senior Fellowship in Visual Art,
Department of Culture, Government of India (1998-2000).
He has also attended many camps and workshops including
Prof. Paul Lingren’s printmaking workshop in Kolkata (1984);
multi-media camp organized by the Lalit Kala Akademi in Simla
(1990); and Confluence, an Indo French camp organized by Alliance
Francaise de Kolkata and the Ambassade de France, New
Delhi, in Kolkata in 1992. The artist lives and works in Kolkata.