Arpita Akhanda
Exhibitions | Workshops
2021
ISHAH, An exhibition of works by women artists, Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad.
Framing Infections, Pandemic as Portal by Badam Tree in association with 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery.
Hub India at Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art at Torino, Italy, curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, represented by Emami Art.
শরীর | Körper: The memory collector, Kunstrum, Aarau, Switzerland.
Of Liminal Beings and other spaces, curated by Ushmita Sahu, Emami Art gallery, Kolkata.
The Trifecta of Movement at Exhibit 320, Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi.
The absent presence, an online & onsite performance, conceptualized by Arpita Akhanda, Emami Art Gallery, Kolkata.
2020
The Lay of the Land, Exhibit320, Art and Design Week, New Delhi.
Aroh, Emami Art Open Call - Online Exhibition and Mentorship Programme 1.3 curated by Ushmita Sahu.
Growing through Interaction 2.0 Workshop with Piramal Art Residency.
Departure, a group show conceptualized by Prasanta Sahu, at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata.
Freeing the Book A Group Show, Blueprint12, The Manor, New Delhi, India.
Piramal Art Residency, cycle 24, Visualizing the text, Thane, Maharashtra
2019
Inside the fiber, a group show curated by Soma Bhowmik, Artsacre Museum, Kolkata.
Kolkata Art Fair, group show, Kolkata Center for Creativity, Kolkata
Texting Being Theertha International Performance Platform, curated by Smitha Cariappa & Jeetin Rangar Colombo, Srilanka.
2018
A Walkover Senses, solo show at JANUS center for visual and performing art, Kolkata.
The Painted Face, group show at Art Exposure, Kolkata
Pentamerous, group show at Art Exposure, Kolkata
2017
Human Ecology and Art, 3rd Multidisciplinary Art show, curated by Chhatrapati Dutta Chittagong. Bangladesh
Barbil Art Project (BAP-III), curated by Ushmita Sahu, Barbil, Odisha.
In- Field Studio, collaborative project, and workshop with the infield studio architects Japan, school of architecture Vadodara, and Visva Bharati University.
The Shape of Things, a group show curated bu Ushmita Sahu, Ganges Gallery, Kolkata
CHINA BOT-the magician, 2017, Nandan Art Gallery, Santiniketan.
Emami Art Chisel, Annual Exhibition, Emami gallery. Kolkata.
2016
Group show of 6 young artists, at Kala Kendra Gallery, Bangladesh, curated by Wakilur Rahman and Kehkasha Saba,
Reading from the Gendered Land, the performance conducted by Sanchayan Ghosh at Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Reading from the Gendered Land, the performance conducted by Sanchayan Ghosh at JNU and, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay at Nandan, Kala Bhavana.
The ordinariness of things, workshop curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Art and Aesthetics Gallery, New Delhi
CARTIST Festival, workshop, Jaipur.
Young Artists of Santiniketan, SSVAD, Santiniketan.
Educational Qualification
2017 MFA, painting department, from Kala Bhavana Visva Bharati Santiniketan.
2016 Student exchange program and Cultural exchange at YUNNAN UNIVERSITY CHINA
2015 BFA, painting department from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan.
Awards | Scholarships:
2022 Prince Clause Seed Award
2022 Inlaks Fine Art Award
2020-21 Emerging Artist award extended support platform from FICA & MMF (Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation)
2019 State Award Fellowship in New Media, Prafulla Dhanukar Art Foundation
2016 MOYTREE, an award from AIR
2016 YOU Scholarship, from Telegraph.
2016 National Scholarship by CCRT Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India in Painting.
2013 BASUDHA 2013 award, Painting, BASUDHA Festival, Odisha.
2012,2014,2016 Merit Scholarship, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University
Residencies :
2022-23 Jan Van Eyck Residency, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2022 India Art Fair Artist-in-Residency, Delhi.
2021 Gästeatelier Krone in association with Khoj Kolkata, at Aarau Switzerland, June-September.
2020 Piramal Art Residency, cycle 24, Visualizing the text, Thane, Maharashtra
Published Articles:
2018 Art as a Catalyst, for Barbil Art Project - curated by Ushmita Sahu, Art and Deal Magazine, May issue.
2019 A Melange of Narratives, for Inward Vision curated by Soma Bhowmik at Arts Acre, Kolkata, Art and Deal Magazine Jan- Feb issue