Sibdas Sengupta is an artist and curator whose practice traverses multiple mediums, painting, sculpture, video, text-based work, and installation, while critically engaging with the intersections of image, politics, and interiority. His artistic and curatorial interests are shaped by a sustained inquiry into how the self and its inner worlds interact with larger cultural, historical, and social structures. Through his work, Sengupta creates spaces where the poetic and the political encounter each other, allowing for reflection, confrontation, and re-imagination.
As a curator, Sengupta has developed projects that foreground interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and the dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. He is the curator of Odisha Craft Odyssey, an initiative supported by Beads and the MGM Foundation, which brings Odisha’s craft legacies into conversation with contemporary artistic practices. He also leads projects with Dotwalk Ajitara Art Residency and Gallery Dotwalk, where he has curated both group and solo exhibitions. His curatorial approach emphasizes working closely with artists across generations, contexts, and practices, thereby building bridges between diverse forms of knowledge and expression. His selected curatorial projects include Expanded Disciplinarity: Chapter II-Edges of Encounter (ACS Grant 2025 shortlist exhibition, Art Centrix Space, 2025), Magic Erase (solo exhibition of Hemant Gavankar, Art Centrix Space, 2025), The Will to Live (solo exhibition of Priyaranjan Purkait, Gallery Dotwalk, 2024), and Expanded Disciplinarity: Constructing Painterly Relations (ACS Grant 2024 shortlist exhibition, Art Centrix Space, 2024). He co curated Odisha Craft Odyssey with Premjish Achari and Julius Das at Lalit Kala Academy Regional Centre, Bhubaneswar in 2024. Earlier projects include I, Non-I and The Other (Shiv Nadar University, 2023), Polyphonies in Distance (Gallery Dotwalk, 2023), and his work as Assistant Curator for Things are Vanishing Before Us (curated by Premjish Achari, Gallery Dotwalk at Bikaner House, 2023), the largest survey of contemporary sculpture in India. Alongside curatorial practice, Sengupta maintains an active artistic career. His works have been featured in exhibitions such as Imperial Silhouette (Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi, 2024), Kaee Kolkata City Lab (Kaee Contemporary, Kolkata, 2024), Luminous Reveries (Travancore Place by Gallery Dotwalk, 2024), and Inscapes: A Search for a Place (Latitude 28 at CCA, Bikaner House, 2023). Earlier exhibitions include Fleeting Identities (MASH Young Artist Exhibition, IIC Annexe, New Delhi, 2022), Yuva Sambhava (Raza Foundation, Bikaner House, 2022), and Cognitive Ignorance (India Art Fair, in collaboration with FICA, 2020). His MFA solo display, Second Wave of Amnesia, was presented at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in 2019, following projects at Khoj International Artists’ Association, Shiv Nadar University, and the Kochi-Muziris Student Biennale. Sengupta has participated in residencies including KKCL: Kaee Kolkata City Lab (2023–24), Kala-Setu (Utsha Foundation with Raza Foundation, 2017), and Chalengae (Video Art Residency, Utsha Foundation, 2016). He is also the co-editor of Kansa: Forging Traditions, Shaping Futures (with Premjish Achari, Odisha Craft Odyssey, 2025), a critical text examining the intersections of Odisha’s craft traditions and contemporary art. Currently, Sibdas lives and works in Gurugram, Haryana.
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