Suman Chandra

Suman Chandra did his M.F.A. (Painting) and B.F.A. (Painting) from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University. He was chosen from the university to exhibit at the Kochi’s Student Biennale in 2014 & 2016. He has exhibited in many shows including “What’s Contemporary”, Art Alive Gallery (2019), CIMA annual show in Kolkata (2019), SSVAD, Santiniketan (2018) and ICCR, Kolkata (2014). He has also exhibited at India Art Fair, 2020. He is interested in site-specific works. To him, coal mines are very interesting landscapes, unlike other landscapes, in mines, the continuous shifting and changing are happening in different layers within the earth and it is caused more by humans than nature. These man-made impressions left behind on this landscape create an ever-changing interplay of positive and negative spaces. He has tried to depict this phenomenon in his works by dividing a given space in black and white. He lives and works in Santiniketan.