Major Solo Shows

      2018             Shridharani Art Gallery,New Delhi

      2015             Jehangir Art Gallery,Mumbai

      2011             New Delhi,Stuttgart,Paris By Ind-Art.

      2009             Jehangir Art Gallery,Mumbai.

      2005             Kunststiftung, Stuttgart, Germany.

• 2004 Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi.
• 2003 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
• 2001 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata.

      1998               Galerie Guth-Mass, Germany.

• 1997 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
• 1993 Birla Academy of Art & Culture,Kolkata.
• 1991 Art Heritage, New Delhi.

• Born in West Bengal,India.

Education

1982              Graduated in Science from the University of Calcutta.

• Graduated with First Class in Fine Arts , from Indian College of Art  & 

                        Draftsmanship ,Calcutta.

• Research Scholar in Painting by Lalit Kala akademi, New Delhi.

• Artist- in- residence at Kunsteminar Hochschule,Germany.

Selected Group Shows

2005               Boom Time for Contemporary Indian Art, by Filmburo,Barden Wruttemberg at Stuttgart, Germany.

1996               Young Faces in Contemporary Indian Art  by Birla             Academy of Art &, Culture, Kolkata.

1994               Invited in All India Contemporary Indian Art Exhibition by Bharat Bhavan , Bhupal.

Awards        

• 1991-92 Research Grant by Lalit Kala akademi, New Delhi.
• 2000-02 Junior Fellowship from the Ministry of HRD , Govt.of India.

2013-14        Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of HRD , Govt.of India.

Collections

National Gallery of Modern Art , New Delhi.

Roopankar Museum , Bhopal.

A large number of private and public collections in the country and abroad.

Studio

Indralay , Flat – B1, 16/1 Avenue East, Modern Park, Santoshpur, Kolkata-700075

.West Bengal, India. Email – chatsudipk@gmail.com Mobile-+91-9830151378

In a long career spanning almost three decades Sudip Chatterjee s recent paintings and early paintings have remained rigorously abstract,his subsequent drawings were full of figural imagery-with intermittent spells of non-figurative breaks. It shows his penchant for skill mixed with intellect.As the years passed, his paintings as well as his drawings became stark, bare, reclusive and minimal.

For this painter who chose a career in art instead of medicine in which he secured an admission,he engaged himself his practice of painting in strict discipline of a surgeon on a surgery table. The several layered of application paint he produces a certain tonality reminds of the precision of a surgeons scalpel and for us experiencing them which he absorbs and releases simultaneously the areas of divisions into a unitary whole is sheer ecstasy,before thatcame the visual was of an enticing mode. The other part of the oeuvre is in his extraordinarily sensitive modulation of tints and shades and subtle application of opaque white –his mixed media work done in oil and acrylic on canvas. Works that are personal and private, steeped in personal vision that is intimate and pre occupied with explorations of form, space and myth. Chatterjee seems to strip away the layers to reveal complex infrastructure s of his work. He rrein forces the sense of the evocation of the quiet.

I want to enjoy the compositional challenges offered by space, with greater possibilities of individual expression.

There are confrontations between the personal and the extra personal world, I have tried over the years to realize personal time in the perspective of extra personal time. What is reality? I have always searched for a mental form which reflects the essence of my thought, my being, and the very nature of my work. This, in fact, is the central theme of my work.

In pictorial terms I believe form and content are inseparable. It is not spelt out in forms rendered in graphic detail, they are condensed into a dominant image with resonance to evoke the viewers involvement in my vision.

Sudip Chatterjee