Devirani Dasgupta
DEVI RANI DASGUPTA
Profession: Self taught Visual Artist / Painter
Born: 22nd October 1983, Motihari, Bihar, India
About the Artist & Style:
Devi Rani Dasgupta is a self taught expressionist painter born on 22nd Oct 1983 at Bapudham Motihari, a small town situated in north Bihar near India Nepal border. She graduated in Zoology from B.B.R. Ambedkar University in the year 2004. She belongs to a joint family. She had a knack for paintings since her childhood. In her younger days at the tender age of three, when her other cousins used to play she enjoyed drawing on the huge verandas of her house with a chalk. She learned painting from many renowned artists of Bihar, U.P and Kolkata. She was highly influenced by the beauty of the famous Folk arts of Bihar and West Bengal, also known as Madhubani painting and Pot Chitra respectively. She has done quite a few paintings and mastered in this art. She likes to work on both landscape and figurative, but her first love of painting is human expression based compositions using her folk art and surrealistic skills. She likes to work with acrylic colours. She applies rich and bright colours in different layers completing it by applying bold strokes and textures. Her painting has a unique style of surrealism and fantasy. The random and surreal elements in her works are rooted in her own perception. Geometrical shapes rule her paintings such as triangles, rectangles, polygons etc. She uses designs in her composition both in subject and background which gives it a royal appearance and traditional elegance. She paints like a child and everyday she experiments with her work and tries to explore some new things beyond the appreciation. She has done her five solo shows and near about twenty group shows, four annual shows, one Biennial show and number of art fairs and art camps in Kolkata since the year 2011. Her artworks have been collected by number of art lovers in India and abroad.
Educational Qualification: Graduated in Zoology (Hons) from B.B.A. University, Bihar in the year 2004.
Solo Shows:
- 2012 - Taj Bengal, Kolkata
- 2013 – Art Walk Gallery, South City Mall, Kolkata
- 2014 – Academy of Fine Arts West Gallery, Kolkata
- 2014 – Taj Bengal, Kolkata
- 2016 – Taj Bengal, Kolkata
Group Shows:
- 2011 - Hotel Hindustan International, Kolkata
- 2011 - Hotel Chrome, Kolkata
- 2012 - Bimal Mitra Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 2012 - Birla Academy, Kolkata
- 2012 - Gallery Gold, Kolkata
- 2013 - Chemould Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 2013 - Birla Academy, Kolkata
- 2014 – Gaganendra Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 2014 – ITC Sonar Bangla, Kolkata – Workshop & Group Show
- 2014 – ICCR, Nandalal Bose Gallery, Kolkata.
- 2015 – Gallery Gold, Kolkata
- 2015 – ICCR, Abanindranath Gallery, Kolkata
- 2016 – Ellora Art Gallery, Kolkata.
- 2016 – Artist Circle Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 2016 – Creative Strokes Art Gallery, Kolkata
Annual Show:
- 2014 – Birla Academy, Kolkata, Sreejan Annual Show.
- 2015 – Calcutta Art Biennale 2015, Birla Academy, Kolkata.
- 2016 – Alta Mira Art Gallery Annual Show
- 2016 – Chemould Art Gallery Annual Show – ‘PRAYAS 2016’
- 2016 – Gallery Gold Annual Show.
Art Fair:
- 2014 – Paschim Banga Rajya Charukala Mela, Kolkata (Organised by Dept. of Information & Cultural Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal)
- 2016 – Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai – Spandan Kala International art & photography festival, 2016.
- 2016 – Emami Chisel Annual Art Fair
- 2016 – Mirage Art Gallery – Art Mela Project, Art Utsav 2016
Art WorkShop:
- Have participated in numerous art camps and workshops.
Collections: All over India and abroad.
