ADITYA BASAK
Born in the heart of North Kolkata, he was awarded with a scholarship from the prestigious Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta and graduated from the college in 1977, which commenced his journey as an artist.
He is immensely fascinated towards fantasies which are often unconventionally relevant. His works give shape to crude and jarring realities of real-life circumstances, and his paintings showcase the bizarre and weird thoughts lurking in the subconscious and unconscious mind, rendering a mysteriously haunting and disturbing attribute to his paintings.
He joined the ‘Society of Contemporary Artists’, Calcutta in 1984.
Exhibition
(i) ‘Art of Bengal’, organized by CIMA, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.
(ii) ‘50 Years Celebration of India’s Independence’.
(iii) ‘Calcutta through The Eye of Painters’.
(iv) He took part in several international exhibitions, such as, in the Aicon Art Gallery, New York.
Awards & Honours
(i) Scholarship from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta.
(ii) Senior Fellowship in the Field of Visual Art, by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
(iii) Lalit Kala Akademi National Award.
