Jayashree Chakravarty

Jayashree Chakravarty, born in 1956, completed her graduation at Visva Bharati in the sprawling natural environs of Santiniketan. She pursued her Masters at the Faculty of Fine Arts at The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, where she was exposed to an urban sensibility. She was also an artist in residence at Aix-en-Provence from 1993-95 and was inspired by the artistic explorations of the region contributing to her visual language. Inventing her own creative techniques, using organic material and varied kinds of papers, her installations in the form of paper scrolls remain unique in their conceptions and execution. She has had exhibitions both in India and abroad with shows at various museums including the Musee Departemental Des Arts Asiatiques Nice, France; The Tagore Centre, Berlin, Germany; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, USA and Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore to name a few. Her recent shows include her exhibition at the Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy; Musée Guimet, Paris, France; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida and New Delhi. The artist lives and works in Kolkata, India.