Samindranath Majumdar

Solo Exhibition

Year 1993
Birla Academy of Art & Culture,Kolkata.
Year 1995
Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
Year 2001
Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi.
Year 2005
Gandhara Art Gallery,Kolkata.
Year 2005
Gallerie Ganesha,NewDelhi.



Two Man Exhibition

Year 1996
Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.
Year 1998
Art World, Chennai.




Major Group Exhibitions

Year 1995
Gallery 'La Mere’ (Variety), Calcutta.

Year 1995-96
Gallery 'La Mere', Calcutta.

Year 1996'
‘Urban Signals - Shifting Images - II' organized by Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Year 1997
Calcutta Rowing Club organized by ‘Moonlighters’, Gallery Staircase, Calcutta,
Award Winners' Exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.

Year 1998
Art Access Week' organized by Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Year 1999'
‘Abstract trends' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta

Year 2002
Eastern Regional Art Exhibition Organized by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi, CIMA Art Gallery.

Eastern Regional Art Exhibition Organized by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi, Manipur State Museum.


Year 2003
Group Exhibition of four painters organized by Gallery Gandhara, Calcutta.


Year 2004
Sahara India Pariwar presents “Heartscape” A Charity Art Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Organised by New Light.

“Tune in tones”- a trio show at Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai.

“Who’s Who”- a group Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.







Other Major Exhibition

Year 1992
'Introduction 92' organized by India International Art Centre at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.
Open Air Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1995
Exhibition organized by Calcutta Metropolitan Art Festival at Academy of Fine Arts.

Year 1998
'Tradition & Modernity in Bengal' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.




Year 1999
Painters from Bengal organized by 'La Mere' Art Gallery at Mumbai Art Centre, Mumbai.

Prabaha - III organized by ' Bishwa Banga Sammelan' at Academy of Fine Arts.

Year 1999-2000
'Bengal 2000' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.


Year 2000
'Bengal 2000' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.




Annual Exhibitions

Year 1988
Mid-summer Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
Annual Exhibition of Indian Society of oriental Art.

Year 1989
W.B. 'Rajya Charukala Pradarshani'.
Mid-summer Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.-

Year 1990
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
W.B. ' Rajya Charukala Pradarshani.
Annual Exhibition of Indian Society of oriental Art.
Mid-summer Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of W.B. Sate Akademi.

Year 1991
Annual Exhibition of Rabindra Bharati University.
Annual Exhibition of W.B. Sate Akademi.

Year 1992
Annual Exhibition of Society of oriental Art.
W.B. 'Rajya Charukala Pradarshani'.


Year 1993
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture

Year 1994
National Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
Annual Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1995
Annual Exhibition of Rabindra Bharati University.
Annual Exhibition of W.B. State Akademi.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1996
Annual Exhibition of Emerald Isle Gallery.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1997
Annual Exhibition of AIFACS, New Delhi.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1998
Annual Exhibition of W.B. State Akademi.

Year 1999
W.B. 'Rajya Charukala Pradarshani'.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
'Summer Show' in Art Today, New Delhi.
Annual Exhibition of AIFACS, New Delhi.


Year 2000
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
Summer Exhibition of Bombay Art Society, Mumbai.
National Exhibition of Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and Culture.

Year 2001
National Exhibition of Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi. , New Delhi

Year 2002
National Exhibition of Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi. , New Delhi

Year 2003
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and Culture.

Year 2004
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and Culture.


Major Camps


Year 1995
National Camp organized by NZCC, Govt. of India at Chandigarh.
Year 1999
Century workshop organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
Year 2000
National Camp organized by Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi & Humpy University.
Year 2003
Painting workshop in Delhi and Jaipur organized by welcome group, ITC



Publications


Year 1993
A book of Bengali poem with three other co-authors named ' Kothay Kothay Jai' (Cover to cover illustrated).

Year 1998 to 2003
Published a few reviews and articles in Bengali newspapers and magazines.



Research Experience


Year 1997
A dissertation paper on Nihar Ranjan Chowdhury, a forgotten painter.
Year 2000
Biographical Research on Modern Indian Painters starting from 1920 till date for a website.
Working on a research project on “Bengal painting since 1940".

Others

Worked as one of the scriptwriters in a documentary film on Gobordhan Ash, 'Bleeding in the Sun' directed by Nobyendu Chatterjee.

Year2002

Invited to deliver lecture in Manipur State Museum by Lalit Kala Akademi.
Invited to deliver lecture in an Art appreciation course organized by Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture

Year2003

Invited to deliver lecture in an Art appreciation course organized by Rajya Charukala Parshad, Govt. of West Bengal.

Awards / Scholarship



Professional

Year 1992
Certificate of Merit from society of Oriental Art.
Certificate of Merit from W.B. State Akademi.

Year 1995
Annual Award from Birla Academy of Art & Culture. (National level award)
Annual Award from Rabindra Bharati University.
Annual Award from W.B. State Akademi.

Year 1996
Annual Award from Emerald Isle Gallery.

Year 1998
Sunayani Devi Scholarship for Painting from W.B. State Akademi.

Year 1999
Awarded by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in W.B. State Akademi Exhibition.

Year 2000
Annual Award from AIFACS, New Delhi. (National level award)

Year 2001
Annual award from Birla Academy of Art & Culture. (National level award)

Year 2001-2002
Ebrahim Alkazi Endowment Scholarship for Research Work.





Academic

Year 1996
Awarded Gold Medal from Rabindra Bharati University for securing Highest Marks in Fine Arts Dept. In BVA Exam. 1994

Year 1999
Awarded Gold Medal from Rabindra Bharati University for securing Highest Marks in Fine Arts Dept. In MVA Exam. 1996.
Awarded Gold Medal from Rabindra Bharati University for securing Highest Marks in Fine Arts Dept. In MVA Exam. 1996.

Samindranath Majumdar

Flat #103,
27, New South Park,
Kolkata # 700092,
West Bengal, INDIA


Phone: + 91 33 2425 2104. Mobile: +9331035534

Date of Birth

18th December, 1966


Academic Qualification

B.Sc. (Hons.) from Calcutta University.

B.V.A (Gold medal) from Rabindra Bharati University.

M.V.A (Gold medal) from Rabindra Bharati University.






Lecturer in Fine Arts, Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship.

The recent works of Samindranath Majumdar, enact the process of reconstruction of experience by relocating, thereby deciphering, its elements. Memory, thus, becomes an actual presence, its layers almost palpable, tempting the viewers with the possibility of an exfoliative inward journey. The meditative sensibility at work often acquires an almost brooding quality, questioning the whole point of selfhood and the situatedness of the self. Majumdar, in a sense, translates music; the lyricality of his works relieves the impact of the weight of accumulated experience. The somberness is animated and lightened by the undertones of silent music in his work. The twin points of origination and culmination often merge in his work; Majumdar’s take-off point, as it were, is almost invariably nature, but it is to a kind of reconstructed nature that he returns to, the elements relocated in a psychological space and redefined in the process.
ANURADHA GHOSH

Solo Exhibition

Year 1993
Birla Academy of Art & Culture,Kolkata.
Year 1995
Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
Year 2001
Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi.
Year 2005
Gandhara Art Gallery,Kolkata.
Year 2005
Gallerie Ganesha,NewDelhi.



Two Man Exhibition

Year 1996
Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.
Year 1998
Art World, Chennai.




Major Group Exhibitions

Year 1995
Gallery 'La Mere’ (Variety), Calcutta.

Year 1995-96
Gallery 'La Mere', Calcutta.

Year 1996'
‘Urban Signals - Shifting Images - II' organized by Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Year 1997
Calcutta Rowing Club organized by ‘Moonlighters’, Gallery Staircase, Calcutta,
Award Winners' Exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.

Year 1998
Art Access Week' organized by Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Year 1999'
‘Abstract trends' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta

Year 2002
Eastern Regional Art Exhibition Organized by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi, CIMA Art Gallery.

Eastern Regional Art Exhibition Organized by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi, Manipur State Museum.


Year 2003
Group Exhibition of four painters organized by Gallery Gandhara, Calcutta.


Year 2004
Sahara India Pariwar presents “Heartscape” A Charity Art Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Organised by New Light.

“Tune in tones”- a trio show at Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai.

“Who’s Who”- a group Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.







Other Major Exhibition

Year 1992
'Introduction 92' organized by India International Art Centre at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta.
Open Air Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1995
Exhibition organized by Calcutta Metropolitan Art Festival at Academy of Fine Arts.

Year 1998
'Tradition & Modernity in Bengal' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.




Year 1999
Painters from Bengal organized by 'La Mere' Art Gallery at Mumbai Art Centre, Mumbai.

Prabaha - III organized by ' Bishwa Banga Sammelan' at Academy of Fine Arts.

Year 1999-2000
'Bengal 2000' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.


Year 2000
'Bengal 2000' organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.




Annual Exhibitions

Year 1988
Mid-summer Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
Annual Exhibition of Indian Society of oriental Art.

Year 1989
W.B. 'Rajya Charukala Pradarshani'.
Mid-summer Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.-

Year 1990
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
W.B. ' Rajya Charukala Pradarshani.
Annual Exhibition of Indian Society of oriental Art.
Mid-summer Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of W.B. Sate Akademi.

Year 1991
Annual Exhibition of Rabindra Bharati University.
Annual Exhibition of W.B. Sate Akademi.

Year 1992
Annual Exhibition of Society of oriental Art.
W.B. 'Rajya Charukala Pradarshani'.


Year 1993
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture

Year 1994
National Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
Annual Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1995
Annual Exhibition of Rabindra Bharati University.
Annual Exhibition of W.B. State Akademi.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1996
Annual Exhibition of Emerald Isle Gallery.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1997
Annual Exhibition of AIFACS, New Delhi.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Year 1998
Annual Exhibition of W.B. State Akademi.

Year 1999
W.B. 'Rajya Charukala Pradarshani'.
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
'Summer Show' in Art Today, New Delhi.
Annual Exhibition of AIFACS, New Delhi.


Year 2000
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
Summer Exhibition of Bombay Art Society, Mumbai.
National Exhibition of Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and Culture.

Year 2001
National Exhibition of Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi. , New Delhi

Year 2002
National Exhibition of Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi. , New Delhi

Year 2003
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and Culture.

Year 2004
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and Culture.


Major Camps


Year 1995
National Camp organized by NZCC, Govt. of India at Chandigarh.
Year 1999
Century workshop organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture.
Year 2000
National Camp organized by Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi & Humpy University.
Year 2003
Painting workshop in Delhi and Jaipur organized by welcome group, ITC



Publications


Year 1993
A book of Bengali poem with three other co-authors named ' Kothay Kothay Jai' (Cover to cover illustrated).

Year 1998 to 2003
Published a few reviews and articles in Bengali newspapers and magazines.



Research Experience


Year 1997
A dissertation paper on Nihar Ranjan Chowdhury, a forgotten painter.
Year 2000
Biographical Research on Modern Indian Painters starting from 1920 till date for a website.
Working on a research project on “Bengal painting since 1940".

Others

Worked as one of the scriptwriters in a documentary film on Gobordhan Ash, 'Bleeding in the Sun' directed by Nobyendu Chatterjee.

Year2002

Invited to deliver lecture in Manipur State Museum by Lalit Kala Akademi.
Invited to deliver lecture in an Art appreciation course organized by Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture

Year2003

Invited to deliver lecture in an Art appreciation course organized by Rajya Charukala Parshad, Govt. of West Bengal.