Debiprasad Bhunia

Debi Prasad Bhunia has done M.FA. in Sculpture from College of Art, New Delhi and B.FA. in Modelling and Sculpture from Govt. College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. He has exhibited his works at Kalakriti Art Gallery(2018 and 2023); College of Art, New Delhi(2017,2018); State Academy, Kolkata (2016); Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata (2016); Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata (2016); Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi (2016). His work is also part of the Reserve Bank of India collection. He has been part of the Pune Biennale, Young Expressions (2017); Western Ghats Eco Walk (2018); Awarenessof E-Plastic Waste Installation at I AM Gurgaon(2019). He has been awarded the Merit Award for Delhi Zone(2017); AIFACS Best Award, New Delhi (2018). Also, he has been warded with various scholarships namely, Rabi join Memorial Scholarship, G.C.A.C. Kolkata(2012); Portrait Scholarship,G.C.A.C Kolkata(2013); and Young Artist Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India(2017).

As a practicing artist my works reflect on the society I live and the contemporary time where changes are taking place in
a rapid pace. I come from a rural background where life is different in many ways. Though my academic obligations took me to various places but I always carried a strong nostalgia about my childhood in terms of forms, colours and their purposes. Every time my visit back to my village, those forms of society and life surprise me with newer understanding and the body of knowledge captured within it. It is also a challenge to scrutinize the relevance of those forms and ideas with the changes that also affected the rural life. Though my works revolved around my memories of distant past, I also examine other forms through various materials. My recent body of works mostly examining those forms from the past with their functions and various myths and lore’s that forms the essential idea of village life.