Swagata Bose painting in her studio
About Me

Swagata Bose

Swagata Bose

The ‘Eye’ in My Art

Art is understood and finds meaning when a lifetime is spent in pursuing the mind and the thoughts within the artist in solitude in harmony with nature.

Every painter follows life and aspires in his lifetime to create a body of work which imparts pulsating life with great art. I consider myself to be an artist with a mission, challenging my creative thought process to stretch beyond its comfortable zone. My creative satisfaction is derived from delivering something new and fresh.

I also believe that I would want to document the times to which I belong as a true artist, trying to capture images I see in subjects and objects that intrigue my point of interest. I strive to look for “the moment” in time which withholds the tension, emotion, movement in my creative space.

My forte is figurative drawing in contemporary style, a style I have adapted true to my nature and hope will stand its own. I don’t always follow the narrative but tend to create a body of work on the subject I approach with fervour.

My interest at that point becomes the subject reacting to light, the lines, the dramatic intermingling of colours, though my palette is more often of a monochromatic tonage, a subtle composition obtained therefore to give the moment in the painting almost a lifelike space.

Academics :

  • BFA from Delhi College of Arts in 1989.
  • Certificate of Merit from Delhi College of Art & Bronze Medal in 1986.
  • Recipient of Bharat Nirman Awards 2011 for Creative Art.
  • Art Residency and Art Exhibition (23rd July 2012) at ARTFUNKL, Manchester, UK – June 25th – July 25th, 2012.

Work Experience :

  • Worked as freelance illustrator in Advertisement agencies like Delta Advertising, Capital Advertising.
  • Design Studios & Magazines like India Today, Down to Earth.
  • Publishing Houses like Vikas, Star Publishers.
  • NCERT National Award for Illustrator for Children Literature 1994–95.
Swagata Bose artwork

Collectors India & Abroad :

  • Mr. Suryakant Dalmia
  • Mr. D. P. Ahuja
  • Ms. Santa Ghosh
  • Late Avijit Mazumder
  • Late Sumit Mazumder
  • Park Hotel, Kolkata
  • ITC Sonar Bangla, Kolkata
  • Taj Bengal, Kolkata
  • Tata Metaliks, Tata Center, Kolkata
  • National Stock Exchange
  • Vikrant Forge
  • Mr. Kamal Parekh
  • Late Joy Mukherjee
  • Late Shaankar Sen (Senco Gold & Diamonds)
  • Mr. Uttiya Chowdhury (Anjali Jewellers)
  • Mr. Madan Mohanka (Tega Industries Ltd.)
  • Mr. Ramesh Maheshwari (Texmaco Limited)
  • Mr. Ivan Hugo, VP (MMD Asia Pacific Ltd.)
  • Mr. Pulkit Sharma (Daulat Ram Engineering Services Ltd.)

Personal Collections :

  • Late Sunil Roy Chowdhury
  • Late Sujit Ghosh
  • Mr. Kunal Roy Chowdhury (Tea & Allied)
  • Mrs. Suvadra Roy Chowdhury
  • Mr. Bikram Basu, Managing Director (ABD Maestro)
  • Ms. Arusha Ghosh
  • Ms. Indrani Dasgupta
  • Mr. Chandrajit Ghosh & Mrs. Ariti Ghosh
  • Ms. Ekta Bhattacharya
  • Ms. Sreeya Ghosh
  • Mr. Ambar Batra
  • Capt Ganguly
  • Late Bhavani Sengupta
  • Ms. Sree Sengupta
Swagata Bose

Participations

1995 – Group show at the Midnight Art Bazaar in Park Hotel, New Delhi.
1996 / 2000 – Shows at Art Konsult, New Delhi.
1998 – Group show at Domus Art Gallery, Kolkata.
1999 – Group show at ABN Amro Bank, Kolkata.
2001 – Group show at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
2003 – Group show at Gallery Ganesh, New Delhi.
2003 – Group show at Chittaranjan Memorial Hall, New Delhi.
2004 – Solo show ‘Enlightened’ at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
2005–2007 – Group shows with ‘The Group’ at the Academy of Fine Arts and Palladian Lounge, Kolkata.
2006 – Group show with The Group at Gorky Sadan on ‘Peace’.
2007 – Group show at Samakol Art Gallery.
2007 – Group show at Academy of Fine Arts.
2007 – Solo show at Taj Bengal, Kolkata.
2009 – Group show – The Silver Jubilee of ‘The Group’ at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
2010 – Group show at ‘The Art Gallery’, ITC Sonar, Kolkata, with the group Spandan.
2010 – Group show at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, with the group Srijan.
2011 – Solo Art Exhibition “La Venus – The Being and The Body” at ITC Sonar, Kolkata.
2012 – Solo Art Exhibition “TALSARI” at Taj Bengal, Kolkata.
2012 (March) – Participation in workshop “Rabindra Chinta” with contemporary artists commemorating 150 years of Rabindranath Tagore.
23rd July 2012 – Solo Art Exhibition “SILENCE FINDS AN EXPRESSION – The Moments in Time” at ARTFUNKL, Manchester, UK.
4th–11th March 2013 – Solo Art Exhibition “Paintings by Swagata Bose” – Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal, Kolkata.
2014 – Group shows: Roymans and Srijan.
2014 April – Metal & Brush, Ador House, Mumbai – Swagata Bose & Shankar Ghosh.
10th October 2014 – Exposition of Art, hosted by ITC Sonar, Kolkata, and Renu Roy with Keshab Roy.
2015 – Group shows with Moner Milan.
2016–2018 – Participation in group shows with Moner Milan and Srijan.
2019–2020 – Participation at the Awadh Art Festival online and ‘International Collectors Art Fair 2020’.
2020 – Participation and interview at World Art Branding Conclave 2020, Mumbai.
2020 – Participation with Third Eye Gallery, Friends of Fine Arts and Gallery IV.
2020 – Participating artist in the Group Online International Art Exhibition ‘TANGIBILITY OF TIME’ by CTG Art Club, Bangladesh.
2021 – Inaugural online opening ceremony of my Atelier and Art Studio “GARDEN OF JOY” and tribute to Joy Mukherjee.
2021 – Participation in group shows with Moner Milan and Srijan.
2021 – Participation at Art Haat, ArtAcre 2021.
2021 – Premiere of the film by Goutam Ghose, which honoured and showcased my “Migration Series” in a poem he wrote in the film “Samayer Smritimala, Memories of Time”.
2023 – Solo Art Exhibition “Odyssey of the Last One Decade”, curated by art historian and art critic Mr. Prasanta Daw, held at Maya Art Space, 21st–25th February 2023.
2023 – The College Mates Art Summit 2023, the first-edition group exhibition of ex-students of College of Art, New Delhi, held at AIFACS, New Delhi, 2nd–7th December 2023.
24th February 2024 – BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry presented “Silpo Udyog”, an Art Group Exhibition.
7th–13th March 2025 – “The Fusion 29”, group show of Kolkata artists and sculptors, AIFACS Art Gallery, New Delhi.