Sanchayan Ghosh

Sanchayan Ghosh is Associate Professor in the Department of Painting, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University. Over the years, his exploration of site-specific, interactive art practice has deepened to focus on direct engagement with community and public spaces including interdisciplinary activities, multilayered installations and performances. He was the Artistic Director of the project marking 100 years of Jallianwala Bagh at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Through his work, he has traversed spaces between institution and pedagogy, engaged with different systems of knowledge production and dissemination and succeeded in extending the reach of art and performance to include, crucially, the public elements of collective engagement.