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About me

I live and work between places.

Je vis et travaille entre plusieurs lieux.

I am an Indian visual artist living and working in Paris. I studied at EnsAD Paris and ESAM Caen. My practice moves between drawing, painting and installation, with images transformed through matter and erasure.

Since moving from India to France, I have returned to photographs of my village in West Bengal, rice fields, domestic objects and blurred video calls with my mother. What disappears matters to me as much as what remains visible.

India
Caen
Paris

Memory does not remain still when it travels.

I work from images of home that have been changed by distance.

I explore how my relationship to home has changed through displacement.

I work from images, objects and memories that have become difficult to approach directly: photographs of my village in West Bengal, rice-field landscapes, blurred screenshots from video calls with my mother, objects I carried from India, and places in France that reactivate a memory of home.

I do not try to restore these images intact. I approach them as surfaces already made fragile by distance, technological mediation and time. In my drawings, paintings and installations, an image may be erased, perforated, covered, transferred, dissolved or reconstructed through matter.

I work with graphite and charcoal in powder and pencil form, oil, casein, gum arabic, paper, linen, wood, acetone and pigments collected locally in France. I prepare some binders by hand. In one series, pigments pass through perforated photographs of rice fields; in another, I paint images from calls with my mother and partially remove their surfaces with acetone.

These gestures are not simply formal effects. They describe a relation to home that has become indirect, unstable and incomplete. Displacement is not only a subject in my work; it changes how I see, remember and recognise.

I work in the interval between presence and disappearance, attachment and distance, recognition and loss. I understand belonging not as a fixed state, but as a fragile relation continually remade between places left behind, places inhabited, and the images connecting them.

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Exhibitions,
education & more.

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Selected exhibitions

  1. Festival du dessin – Arles La jeune garde à l’honneur · Group exhibition · Chapelle du Méjan, Arles Curated by Julie Eggel
  2. Retournez là-bas ! Ça n’existe pas. Duo exhibition with Dylan Altamiranda · Galerie du Montparnasse, Paris Curated by Pierre Duval
  3. Affinités / अपनापन Group exhibition · Deeya, Paris Curated by TAK Contemporary
  4. Horizons Group exhibition · Galerie du Montparnasse, Paris Curated by Pierre Duval
  5. Reconnecting… Solo exhibition · Maison Rester. Étranger, Saint-Denis
  6. Pavillon noir Group exhibition · Galerie Pavillon, Paris
  7. Aux sentiers qui bifurquent Group exhibition · POUSH, Aubervilliers Curated by Raphaël Brunel
  8. Chronicles of Continuity Residency exhibition · The Window, Paris
  9. In Flux: Evolving Selves Master’s degree exhibition · Bibliothèque du Centre Censier, Paris
  10. Interactions sociales Exhibition and performance following a collective workshop · The Window, Paris
  11. Floating i Group exhibition · In.Plano, L’Île-Saint-Denis
  12. Corps en transit Degree exhibition · ESAM, Caen
  13. Plosion Group exhibition · ICCR, Kolkata, India
  14. Visual Symphony Group exhibition · Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India
  15. Paschimbanga Charukala Utsab Group exhibition · Nandan, Kolkata, India

Publications

  1. Aniruddha Biswas. In Flux: Evolving Selves. In After: Catalogue des diplômé·es 2023 · École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris · April 2024 · p. 10
  2. Aniruddha Biswas. Next Doors. In MICHEL: Art, Culture & Société en Normandie · No. 5, Habiter · Autumn 2021 · pp. 61–64

Residencies

  1. Les Ateliers Daguerre Artist support programme in the 14th arrondissement of Paris
  2. The Window Laboratory for artistic experimentation in an urban environment · Paris

Scholarship

  1. Charpak Master Scholarship Institut français · Embassy of France in India

Education

  1. Master (with jury honours) Art–Space · École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), Paris
  2. Diplôme National d’Art (with jury honours) Art · École Supérieure d’Arts & Médias (ESAM), Caen
  3. Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting · Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India