Born in 1989, Sangita Maity resides and works in Kolkata. Sangita finished her degree in printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University’s Faculty of Visual Arts. She has been engaged with indigenous communities of Chota Nagpur plateau for several years in their...
Read MoreBorn in 1989, Sangita Maity resides and works in Kolkata. Sangita finished her degree in printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University’s Faculty of Visual Arts. She has been engaged with indigenous communities of Chota Nagpur plateau for several years in their makeshift settlements over time to understand cultural loss in the process of forced displacement and unlearning of their traditional and sustainable practices as custodians of their land during occupational migration. Series of portraiture, daily living practices, activities around the mineral rich landscape transformed by the mining industry and collective testimonies from the community on their experience with displacement are represented in her visual practice through a variety of media and material that are in dialogue with the material context of the region through innovative and experimental processes. She experiments at the intersections of photography, photo-etchings, serigraphy, and a variety of other practices. Her most recent projects focus on environmental, political, topographical, and sociocultural concerns related to an excess of rubber plantations in Tripura, and the displacement of the second-largest rubber-producing state in India. She engages with the land, goes to rubber-planted forests, and visits associated factories in Tripura in order to understand the occupational history and process of the people engaged in the industry.
Sangita has held solo show in 2022 ‘Now They Stopped Building Granaries’, at Shrine Empire, New Delhi, ‘LEGAL ALINE’ curated by Meera Menezes , Bikaner House, New Delhi; 2019 Maity participated at the Serendipity Art Festival, Goa, curated by Rahaab Allana; a group show at Shrine Empire, New Delhi; solo show at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, 2018. She was awarded the Junior Fellowship of Ministry of Culture from the Government of India, 2018 -2020, Experiments 2016, group show at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai and Khoj Peers Residency 2014 at Khoj Artists Association in New Delhi. Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke’s 2014 edition of ‘Art for Young Collectors’, in Mumbai. She received Cima Jury Award in 2015.
Sangita’s works will be a part of the upcoming edition of Columboscope in 2024 titled ‘Way of the Forest’ curated by Sarker Protick, Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung.
