ANIRBAN MITRA 'S BIODATA

                                                              RESUME 

ANIRBAN MITRA

NAME          : ANIRBAN MITRA

BORN          : 10 Aug 1981

QUALIFICATION- : 

BACHELOR 2006 & MASTER 2008 DEGREE OF FINE ART, PAINTING, KALA BHAVANA, VISVA BHARATI, SANTINIKETAN,WEST BENGAL, INDIA.

AWARD- 

BRONZE AWARD 1991.INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S ART EXHIBITION. NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK, TOKYO,JAPAN.

SILVER AWARD1992.INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S ART EXHIBITION. NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK, TOKYO,JAPAN.

SILVER AWARD1995.INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S ART EXHIBITION. NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK, TOKYO,JAPAN.

SILVER AWARD-2006. SILVER BRUSH GIVEN BY THEGOLDEN BRUSH.THE EYE WITHIN, KOLKATA.

ARTIST AWARD2006. GIVEN BY KOLKATA ART                              

FOUNDATION.

SCHOLARSHIP 

ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP GIVEN BY VISVA BHARATI,SANTINIKETAN -2001-2002-2003-2004-2005-2007.

KRISHNAKRITI FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP 2006,

HYDERABAD.

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP2007-2009 TO YOUNG ARTISTS GIVEN BY GOVT. OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF CULTURE.

WORKSHOP:    

INTERNATIONAL ART WORKSHOP AT KALAKRITI ART GALLERY, 2007, HYDERABAD.

    

PAINTING WORKSHOP AT MAHINDRA UNITED WORLD      

COLLEGE, PUNE 2007, ORGANIZED BY SAKSHI

GALLERY,MUMBAI.

BIENNIAL

ANIMAMIX BIENNIAL – VISUAL ATTRACT & ATTACK 2009-2010 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MOCA TAIPEI, TAIWAN

EXHIBITION-

SOLO SHOW – INSPECTING THE CONSTRUCTION SAKSHI GALLERY MUMBAI, 9NOV-2 DEC2013

GROUP SHOW –

1.FIRST EDITION, TAJ KRISHNA, HYDERABAD. SAKSHI GALLERY 2013

2. IN-HOUSE EXHIBITION, SAKSHI GALLERY,  MUMBAI, 2013

ART HONG KONG , HONG KONG ART FAIR 2013

3.INDIA ART SUMMIT 2012, NEW DELHI, SAKSHI GALLERY BOOTH, MUMBAI.

4.TAIPEI ART FAIR 2011, TAIPEI, TAIWAN. SAKSHI      

GALLERY BOOTH

5.BEYOND SUPERFLAT AT SAKSHI GALLERY TAIWAN TAIPEI 2011

6.GIANT ELEPHANT- INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION. GONG ART SPACE, SEOUL, KOREA 2011.

7.INDIA ART SUMMIT 2011, NEW DELHI, SAKSHI GALLERY BOOTH, MUMBAI.

8.FINDING INDIA, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MOCA TAIPEI, TAIWAN 2010

9.TAIPEI ART FAIR 2010, TAIPEI, TAIWAN. SAKSHI      

GALLERY BOOTH

10.SAKSHI ANNUAL EXHIBITION.TAIWAN TAIPEI, MAY 2010.

11.ART HONG KONG 2010, HONG KONG CONVENTION CENTRE.HONG KONG ART FAIR.

12.GALLERY COLLECTION, SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI,  2010

13.ROOTS, THE PARK, CHENNAI, ORGANIZED BY SAKSHI GALLERY, 2010

14.FINDING INDIA, COEX, CONVENTION CENTER, SOUEL, SOUTH KOREA, 2009

15.COLLECTION OF SMALL WORKS, SAKSHI GALLERY,MUMBAI, INDIA 2009.

16.ANIMAMIX BIENNIAL – VISUAL ATTRACT & ATTACK 2009-2010 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MOCA TAIPEI, TAIWAN

17.GROUP EXHIBITION,  ORGANIZED BY SAKSHI GALLERY MUMBAI, AT SHRIDHANI GALLERY, TRIVENI KALA SANGAM, NEW DELHI 2008.

18.THE SAKSHI SHOW, ORGANIZED BY SAKSHI GALLERY MUMBAI, AT DURBAR HALL, LALITH KALA ACADEMY, COCHIN. 2008.

19.GROUP EXHIBITION, GALLERY UPSTAIRS, KOLKATA, 2008.

20.A BUNCH OF YOUNG ARTIST, GANDHARA ART GALLERY, KOLKATA, 2008.

21.BRIDGE 2 WORLDS, MENIER GALLERY, LONDON, UK, ORGANIZED BY IMA FOUNDATION, LONDON.

22.GROUP EXHIBITION, GLENFIDDICH DISTILLERY, DUFFTOWN, BANFFSHIRE, SCOTLAND, 2009.

23.40^TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2007. BIRLA ACADEMY OF                            

ART AND CULTURE, KOLKATA.

24.WAIT FOR US. GANDHARA ART GALLERY, KOLKATA 2006.

25.WHAT FREEDOM MEANS TO ME? YOUNG EXPRESSION.KANVAS ART GALLERY, 2007.

26.GROUP SHOW. KALAKRITI ART GALLERY, 2007,

HYDERABAD.

      

27.ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION 2005, NANDAN ART GALLERY,KALA BHAVANA, VISVA BHARATI SANTINIKETAN.             

ART FAIRS

1.INDIA ART FAIR , NEW DELHI 2014
2.ART HONG KONG, HONG KONG ART FAIR 2013

3.INDIA ART FAIR , NEW DELHI 2013

4.TAIPEI ART FAIR 2011, TAIPEI, TAIWAN. SAKSHI      

GALLERY BOOTH

5.TAIPEI ART FAIR 2010, TAIPEI, TAIWAN. SAKSHI      

GALLERY BOOTH

6. ART HONG KONG 2010, HONG KONG CONVENTION CENTRE.HONG KONG ART FAIR.

7.INDIA ART SUMMIT 2011, NEW DELHI, SAKSHI GALLERY BOOTH, MUMBAI.

COLLECTION-

Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, USA
PAINT BRUSH DIPLOMACY, CALIFORNIA, USA, 1993.

NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK CULTURAL SOCIETY,TOKYO, JAPAN.                                                        

PARTICIPATION-

1.CHRISTIE'S HONG KONG SPRING AUCTION, MAY 2009.

2.CHRISTIE'S HONG KONG AUCTION, ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART, DAY SALE, NOV 2009

3.CHRISTIE'S HONG KONG AUCTION, ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART, DAY SALE, NOV 2010
 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE-

ATGLENFIDDICH DISTILLERY, DUFFTOWN, BANFFSHIRE,SCOTLAND, 2009.

RESIDENCE –

80, N.C.BANERJEE ROAD MATIPARA, BAIDYABATI,

HOOGHLY – 712222

WEST BENGAL,

INDIA.

E MAIL – anirbannato@gmail.com

PHONE - +91-9933657198 (MOB)

  

ANIRBAN MITRA IS REPRESENTED BY SAKSHI GALLERY MUMBAI INDIA www.sakshigallery.com

Different genres, one frame ARINDAM CHATTERJEE

                                Different genres, one frame
                               ARINDAM CHATTERJEE
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Artist Anirban Mitra speaks on his works at Studio21.
text by ARINDAM CHATTERJEE
 in Different genres, one frame

Different genres, one frame
ARINDAM CHATTERJEE

Artist Anirban Mitra speaks on his w orks at Studio21. Picture by Rashbehari Das
Multiple narratives, a multiplicity of themes and ideas, garish colours, cartoon and
anime characters, Mr Muscle, FarmVille — artist Anirban Mitra’s paintings depict
“multiple existences having multiple meanings which have been brought about by
juxtaposition of readymade images”.

Different genres, histories and multiple narratives coexist within one single frame.
Anirban culled images from life, comic strips, advertisements, news photographs,
family photographs, technical drafting, famous paintings and movie stills and placed
them on a canvas “almost arbitrarily”.
“I am trying to understand my generation, my time,” said Anirban, an alumnus of
Kalabhavan, Santiniketan, at the end of a talk and presentation, Signs...emanate infinite
possibilities, at Studio21 recently. The presentation was designed to show the thought
process behind his paintings.
At times, the starting point for a painting is an event that left a lasting impression on him.
“When we lived in Baranagar, there was always a water crisis. There was never enough
water,” he said.
In 2009, Anirban came across an old black-and-white photograph of his grandmother
and her sister holding water jugs in the late 1940s, and that picture served as the
starting point for the painting Doraemon’s Gift To An Indian Woman, which packs in the
politics and gender issues revolving around water. In the painting, Doraemon, who can
solve almost every problem in life, asks, “Need a new gadget?”
Anirban also questioned the way “popular culture depicts women travelling long
distances carrying water through a romantic landscape”. “Posters show it like a
romantic scene. But the reality is different,” he said.
In the same painting Anirban also addressed the erotic undertones in Nandalal Bose’s
Chandalika. “There’s also the issue of who will give water, who will take it,” he added.
Anirban took around four months to complete the 16ftx6ft painting. “I started with the
portrait of my grandmother and sister not knowing what would happen next. I didn’t know
how big the canvas would be. As I rolled out the canvas, I kept on adding figures. I didn’t
have much space in my room. So when I finished, I took the whole canvas to my roof
and spread it out. That’s when I saw it as a whole for the first time,” smiled Anirban.
The archiving process is personal, which makes the paintings to some extent
autobiographical.
“When you are appropriating images from popular culture, there is a risk that the
references may bear a resemblance with what other artists are doing. Anyone can
collect any material from a number of sources. But I try to paint the things that are
associated with my life. It can be a pump or a tap in my garden...” said Anirban, who is
planning to start work on a painting that would revolve around ghosts.
“It would be about the history of ghosts and how ghosts have been shown in popular
culture. There is the friendly and the harmful ghost.”
In 2008, while staying in Baroda for two months, Anirban came across a pest control
advertisement. “Everyone gets scared when pests enter your home. Pest is the intruder
here… and there’s the issue of how commercial products are made to kill it. Then I saw the Mr Muscle ad. Like a superhero, Mr Muscle, with his rippling muscles, protects the
house,” said Anirban.
The painting Lakshman Rekha and Mr Muscle not only addressed gender issues (“the
woman is always shown cleaning the house”), the definition of pest (“who is the pest
here?”) but also looks at “how commercials manipulate our perception of looking at a
home”.
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STUDIO21 presentation Signs emanate infinite possibilities by Anirban Mitra

STUDIO21 cordially invites you to an artist talk and 

presentation

Signs emanate infinite possibilities 

by Anirban Mitra

featured in verve magazine

featured in verve magazine

                                      

i have been featured in VERVE MAGAZINE , look at the link below Inside My Atelier
Text by Neha Gupta 
Published: Volume 21, Issue 7, July, 2013
Three artists talk to Neha Gupta about their sanctified places of innovative creations where they can allow their imaginations to adopt any form of expression http://www.verveonline.com/122/life/scapes-spaces.shtml

ARTIST Anirban Mitra in VERVE MAGAZINE

Inside My Atelier

Text by Neha Gupta      

Published: Volume 21, Issue 7, July, 2013

Three artists talk to Neha Gupta about their sanctified places of innovative creations where they can allow their imaginations to adopt any form of expression

 i have been featured in VERVE MAGAZINE , look at the link below Inside My Atelier

Text by Neha Gupta 
Published: Volume 21, Issue 7, July, 2013
Three artists talk to Neha Gupta about their sanctified places of innovative creations where they can allow their imaginations to adopt any form of expression http://www.verveonline.com/122/life/scapes-spaces.shtml

ANIRBAN MITRA WIZARD OF SHADES What you see around you, you will glimpse in Anirban Mitra’s artwork. A hyper-colour palette takes from television advertisements, tribal art and popular or common religious imagery – anything that has vibrancy to it. “The images of my paintings represent collage or co-existence of different realities. I look back at the artistic styles and canonical masterpieces of early artists such as the pop artists and their ‘appropriation’ (or borrowing) of popular imagery from comic strips, advertisements and the mass media in general.” But visit his studio space in the suburbs of Kolkata and you will not see a lot of colour inside, except his current work in progress and one lively blue wall. Walk around his studio-home and you will see dull remnants of bright murals. In 2009, the artist had decided to take away the monotony of his blank walls by dressing them up to create an open gallery of sorts for the passing public. Now the murals have been abolished with the renovation of his studio-home. Mitra has already decided on the theme for his next mural. “I am planning to add more pop culture images like Batman, Superman and home appliance machines.” Even though he doesn’t work outdoors, knowing his house is wrapped up in art is motivating enough for him. Rather attached to his studio, he admits to spending most of his time in this space – considering it is also part of his home. But all his work is always created inside. “I start the day with painting my works, reading books, watching films, taking photographs and taking care of my garden.” The latter also turns out to be his muse.