Second hand images filtered through the media exert a powerful influence on our perception of reality.  The distinctions between model/copy, mediated experience/tangible reality are all but blurred - this is where my journey begins.  I exploit painting’s resilience as a medium to convey the multi-layered experience of contemporary life.  It’s more an intellectual practice than an instinctive one, where texts and puns have vital roles.  I deliberately leave my canvases white or off-white to underscore the object hood of the canvas, but ultimately the conceptually framed images become more important than the conventional figure-ground relationship.  I build on the legacies of pop, minimalism and conceptual art in a post-colonial milieu, where truth and reality are not as truthful and real as they may appear.

Jayanta Roy

Jayanta Roy

Born: 01-10-1973, Kolkata, (lives & works in Kolkata)
Education: BVA Sculpture, Govt College of Art & Crafts, Kolkata, 1997

Last five years Exhibition & Participation:

2015

•         Participated at London Art Fair with Beers Contemporary Gallery.

2014

•         Included for the book entitled ‘the Hundred Painters of Tomorrow’- An initiative by Thames & Hudson publication, London
•         Group exhibition at Christie's London
•         Group exhibition at Beers Contemporary, London

2013

•        Group exhibition at Abadi  Art Space, New Delhi

2012

•         Group Exhibition at Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata

2010-09

•        “B-Swarga” solo show at Nature Morte (New Delhi), Bose Pacia(Kolkata) and Lakeeren(Mumbai)
•        Group show at Nature Morte , New Delhi
•       “Some Ice-bergs Easy to Avoid” at Bose Pacia, New York

2008

•          3 men show at the Gallery Nature Morte, Delhi,
•          “Black & White”, at Tao Art Gallery

2007

•          “Art addressing violence” , an exhibition at the Somokal Art Gallery
•          An exhibition of paintings “Dynamic stillness” at Gallery Kanishka, Kolkata
•          Group show at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
•          Group show at Gallery Nakshatra

Awards

•         Received Pollock-Krasner Grant, 2013, USA
•         Awarded Junior Fellowship from Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, 2011-12, New Delhi
•         Certificate of Merit Award from Academy of Fine Arts, 2002, Kolkata,India
•         State Academy Award, 2000,Kolkata,India
•         AIFACS Award,1997, New Delhi,India
•         Raja Ram Venkatappa Scholarship, 1996, Karnataka,India
•         AIFACS Scholarship,1996, New Delhi, India

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