Indrapramit Roy

B. 1964

Indrapramit Roy studied printmaking (BFA) at the Visva-Bharati University of Santiniketan and painting (MFA) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University of Baroda, India. Subsequently he was awarded Inlaks Scholarship to study MA Painting (1990-92) at the Royal College of Art, London, which also included a term each at Cite des Arts, Paris and Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin on Erasmus scholarship.

Indrapramit has shown extensively in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangalore and Chennai in group and solo shows. He has had 16 solo shows, over 80 Group shows and participated in several art camps and workshops. His latest duo show was at Site Art Space, Baroda curated by Rekha Rodwittiya in January 2015.

From amongst the fifteen solo shows held so far the last five were in The Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2006 and 2009, Aicon gallery, Palo Alto, CA, May 2007, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, February 2008 and Galerie-88, Kolkata in November-December 2012. He has taken part in Group shows in London, Berlin, New York, Melbourne and Yangon and has represented India in Asian Art Exhibition in Macao and the Cairo Biennale, Cairo. His next solo-show is scheduled to open at Galerie 88 in November 2015.

Honours and fellowships include Kanoria Centre Fellowship (1989-90), Inlaks fellowship (1990-92) to study at RCA, London, Junior Research Fellowship (1993-95), Government of India, the Fulbright fellowship, USA (2004-5) and most recently Artist-in-Residence at The Siena Art Institute (March 2013).

Indrapramit has lectured on various art related topics at Navrachna University and Balwant Parekh Centre for Semiotics, Baroda, Mohile Parekh Centre and IDC at IIT- Powai, Mumbai, Indian Council for Cultural Relations - Kolkata, International Institute for Children’s Literature - Osaka, UArts, Philadelphia and ICCR sponsored seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam among others.

Indrapramit also writes on art in various art magazines and contributed articles, interviews and reviews in Art India (Mumbai), Art & Deal (New Delhi), Art Etc.(Kolkata), Nandan (Santiniketan) magazine and Artconcern e-magazine and Khoj Art book. His book reviews have appeared in the Higher Education supplement of Times, London. In 2011 he has edited the issue on Art education of Art Varta bi-annual art magazine published from Kolkata.

Other interests include illustration for young adults and had done several books for Tara publications, Chennai and J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Two of them won international prizes (Alcuin award, Canada and American Museum Association, USA). He has also designed stage for ‘Bohurupee’, Kolkata and World Social Forum, Mumbai.

He has been teaching painting at his alma mater Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda since 1995.