Resume

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 Name : Silajit Ghosh

1959: Born in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India.

Address : “Fort Legend” Apartment 16A

135 Meghnad Saha Sarani, Kolkata 700029

Mobile : 98362 62977

Website :  www.silajitart.com

E-mail : silajit3@hotmail.com

Instagram : silajit.art

Academic & Professional Qualification:

• M.Com. Chartered and Cost Accountant, FCA, FICWA.

• Founder Chairman: FUTURE Group of Educational Institutions, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

​​Solo Exhibitions:

• 2024: Held Seventh solo exhibition at Harrington Arts Centre, Kolkata between 12th  and 29th November, 2024, with 138works, executed majorly in 2024, including ten 6 Feet by 6 Feet Acrylic works on Canvas.

• 2023: Sixth Solo exhibition at The Tollygunge Club, Kolkata inaugurated by Sri Jogen Chowdhury and Sri  Goutam Ghosh.

• 2022: Fifth Solo exhibition at Fort Legend, Golpark, Kolkata

• 2008: Fourth Solo exhibition at Gallery K2, Kolkata inaugurated by Sri Ganesh Pyne.

• 2000: Third Solo exhibition at “Son-Et-Lumiere” Art Gallery at Mumbai.

• 1997: Second Solo exhibition at “Gallery Katayun”, Kolkata

• 1993: First Solo exhibition at “The Little Gallery”, Kolkata inaugurated by Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay and Sri Shakti Chattopadhyay

Gallery Exhibitions:

• 2025: Participated in the online “Winter Carnival” group show of SMS Artists Group.

• 2025: Participated in Art Camp organized by The Lake Club and TI Group.

• 2025: Participated in “World Art Dubai” (WAD) 2025 with twenty paintings

• 2024: Nineteen mega-sized works measuring 36 to 132 Square Feet kept in permanent collection of The Tolly Club. Have commissioned Twenty-two mega-sized works measuring 36 to 60 Square Feet for a nature oriented real estate project.

• 2024: Calcutta Club, Kolkata, kept four mega-sized works measuring 36 Square Feet each as a part of their permanent collection.

• 1999:  Commissioned three paintings in oil with sizes of 6 square feet each for three pages of the limited edition    calendar of ITC Benson & Hedges, curated by “Galerie 88”, Kolkata. The show of these paintings traveled all the metros.

• 1995: Commissioned a series of forty-two paintings in acrylic on canvas with sizes ranging from 6 to12 square feet for Park Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Chennai.

• 1994: Works exhibited in the “Show of Abstractionists” at Gallery Katayun, Kolkata

• 1980: Started painting on his own. Basically a self-taught artist with no formal/institutional training in art.

Publication:

• A 115-page coffee table book was published on the inaugural day of the above show, titled “QUEST WITHIN – ART OF SILAJIT”, Forwarded by Sri Prabhakar Kolte, Text by Sri Nanak Ganguly, Photographed by Sri Nepal Bhadra and Designed by Sri Pinaki De.

Awards:

• Works awarded with honorable mentions several times during the years from 1994 to 2000, in the annual exhibitions held by three eminent government / private entities in India, namely: (1) West Bengal State Fine Art Council (2) Birla Academy of Art and Culture (3) Lalit Kala Academy.

Critical reviews of the solo exhibitions have been published in various print media including

• Art India, (B) DESH, (C) Anandabazar Patrika, (D) The Telegraph, (E) SANANDA, (F) Times of India, (G) The Economic Times, (H) The Statesman, (I) Inside Outsie, (J) Aajkaal, (K) Krittibas (L) Jugnantar, (M) Binodan Bichitra etc. The reviewers included well-known art critics like Sri Sandip Sarkar, Sri Mrinal Ghosh, Sri Arun Ghosh, Sri Anirudh Chari etc. 

Collections: Works represented in various collections in India and abroad, including Agora Gallery, New York and the online platform SAATCHIART.

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