Sambuddha DuttaguptaBorn 1956,Darbhanga, BiharStudio: 1761B/6, Govindpuri Extension, Kalkaji,New Delhi 110019Mobile +91 9871 983978email sambudhamaya@gmail.com

EDUCATIONDiploma in Fine Arts - 1980 (Painting) from Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Kolkata

EXHIBITIONSAcademy of Fine Arts (Annual) 1979-1980,Kolkata. Academy of Fine Arts (Mid Summer) -1980,KolkataAIFACS - 1980,New Delhi,Chandigarh Birla Academy of Art & Culture (Annual) 1982-1985, 1989 - 2001,KolkataNational Exhibition of Art - Lalit Kala Akademi, (Rabindra Bhavan),New Delhi - 1985, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkat1986,Bharat Bhawan (Biennial) - Exhibition at Roopankar Art Gallery, Bhopal-1985,Inaugural Exhibition at Regional Art Center of LKA -Bhubaneswar - 1988.“Young Faces” - an exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata - 1989“Calcutta Through The Eyes of Painters”- an exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture to celebrate'300 years of Calcutta' - Kolkata & Mumbai, - 1990Exhibition with two painters - Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata - 1980, Shridharani Gallery (Triveni Kala -Sangam),New Delhi - 1982 Exhibition with three painters -Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata - 1982 Several exhibitions with a group in Delhi,Kolkata & Mumbai since 1980 to 2001. Exhibition on the occasion of 'Vishwa Banga Sammelan' at Academy of Fine Arts,Kolkata - 2000,Group show with seven artists at Lalit Kala Akademi (Rabindra Bhavan), New Delhi - 2004 Group show at Pragati Maidan,organised by 'Bengal Association' New Delhi - 2006

SOLO EXHIBITION Exhibition of paintings & drawings at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata - 1989 Exhibition on multimedia works (Digital Painting) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata – 2004 'Dreams of Liberation' an exhibition of paintings at Birla Academy of Art , Kolkata - 2007

OTHER ACTIVITIES Executed a project of Mural through Physically Challenged children of RCFC at there Hospital building (Orthopedic Building) & M.I.Block at Rehabilitation Center For Children, Motilal Gupta Road,Behala,Kolkata and at Mohananda Brahmachary Hospital at Behala,Kolkata sponsored by Interlink,Kolkata

WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION 'Ashoka Hotel', organized by ITDC, New Delhi - 2007,'Welham Boys' School', Dehradun - 2007,Pragati Maidan organized by 'Bengal Association' New Delhi - 2006,'Max Mueller Bhawan' (Young Artists' Workshop), Kolkata - 1982

COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi and other private collections India & abroad.

She-I Medium Acrylic & oil on canvas

The Dream of LiberationAs the viewer can immediately see these works almost exclusively on womanhood. If some of the compositionsare in a semi realistic mode, e.g. the portrait of a young woman engrossed with her physical being elsewhere, sheis also seriously dreaming. These last works are more imaginatively inventive for instance “Launching II”, Womanin Landscape II”. In several such works are fliers - dragon flies of the upper air. At places the contrast between woman and the jean clad suggested, perhaps pointing out the present day living carried on, on different planes.“Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all, say something! If other compositions converge on sociological exploration, virtually speaking, still others may be intrinsically enjoyed, forgetting all else. Colours plus forms, when done consummately, very often make us put a work themes on the backburners! When we come back to subjects at all, we have already had our pay-off of delight. contd.........

Launching IIAcrylic & oil on canvas

The Dream of LiberationThe artist has a number of such works, in a wild, abandoned mood. Mr.Duttagupta is within his rights to tackle what he fancies but we, the viewers, pine only for sustenance for the eyes - both the outer one, as finally the inner one. He has a few such works. Life being difficult, he has the paucity of time to take his art to the inevitable next step, and the weeding out of the potentially good, from the utterly thrilling. Artists need time, just more time.

I will end by making a few reflections up asides on the artist's preoccupation with eve, not that his work is a feminist tract. It represents in some ways what is a visual record of the processes of human consciousness raising itself. It appears as though these woman dreamers wish to tear down the walls that hem them in a crippling social system. They also mean to break. the male - female convent leading to mutual repression and exploitation. Here then is a kind of real sisterhood which is an interplay of multifarious reveries and year rings. A philosophy of liberation, may be celebrating the spirit and flesh of all womankind. This of course applies as well to Indian society, at moments crassly tradition bound.

I would myself, say that the real liberation of women will only come when all separations, both physical and psychological between humans are done away with by engaging the consciousness of women, as also the social order. That is, when love is seen as not mere passion but as comradeship (regardless of civil status, sex or country). Well, even as we enjoy certain of these works on the sensorial plane, they may set off larger matters, whether or not the artist intended them.

Keshav Malik

Long way to go..water color on paper

The Dream of Liberation

Back to the future Acrylic on paper

The DestinationAcrylic & oil on canvas

SHEAcrylic on paper

InteriorAcrylic & oil on canvas

RoamingAcrylic & oil on canvas

Enraptured IIIAcrylic & oil on canvas

She Iwatercolor on paper

The Flying Café` Acrylic & oil on canvas

The Café`Talk Acrylic & oil on paper

She & the landscape Acrylic & oil on canvas

LeelaAcrylic & oil on canvas

Enraptured IAcrylic & oil on canvas

Enraptured IAcrylic & oil on canvas

Lady with a flower Mixed media on paper

The JourneyAcrylic & oil on canvas

She & the rickshaw puller Acrylic & oil on canvas

Dilli, Diwali & Dilwali Acrylic & oil on canvas

She & the flower seller Acrylic on paper

From The Widow Light Acrylic on paper

The FacesAcrylic on paper

SHE & THE BIRD Acrylic on canvas

Composition XAcrylic on canvas

Enraptured VAcrylic on canvas

PORTRAIT IIAcrylic on paper

My Recent Works

SHE & THE FLYING BIRD Acrylic on paper

THE DREAMER Acrylic on paper

FROM MY HEART Acrylic on canvas

COMPOSITION I Acrylic on canvas

COMPOSITION II Acrylic on canvas

COMPOSITION III Acrylic on canvas

COMPOSITION IV Acrylic on canvas

COMPOSITION VI Acrylic on canvas

EVOLUTION OF THE MANKIND Acrylic on canvas