Tapan Kar

BORN AT KOLKATA?INDIA 1954

He likes to paint on women's daily life, dawn to dusk. He likes to paint in oil, water colour, but TEMPERA is the best medium for him. He likes to work of sculpture sometimes.

EDUCATION:

OBTAINED DIPLOMA IN APPLIED ART FROM GOVT. COLLEGE OF ART & CRAFT KOLKATA,India IN 1975. GET M.A. DEGREE IN BENGALI, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA, India IN 1978.

EXPERIENCE:

WORKSHOP ATTEND ON 'SOCIALLY USEFUL PRODUCTIVE WORK/WORK EXPERIENCE' OF THE CENTRE FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES AND TRAINING, NEW DELHI, India IN 1991. SERVED AS A FIELD INVESTIGATOR, IN THE PROJECT 'A SURVEY OF BENGALI LANGUAGE IN INDIA' OF GAVESHANA PARISHAD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA, India IN BETWEEN 1978 & 1981. ATTENDED 'FINE ART WORKSHOP & EXHIBITION' AT KOLKATA, OF DEPT. OF INFORMATION & CULTURE, GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL, India IN 1985. PAINTING WORKSHOP ATTENDED AT PONDICHERY, ORGANISED BY 'MUKTI' CHENNAI, India IN THE JULY, 2004. ATTENDED THE 'LANDSCAPE PAINTING CAMP' AT MYSORE (KARNATAKA), India ORGANISED BY LALITKALA ACADEMY REGIONAL CENTRE, CHENNAI & SOUTH CENTRAL ZONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, NAGPUR , IN 2004. ATTENDED FINE ART WORKSHOP AT KOLKATA, India ORGANISED BY ABSTRACT FRAMES, IN 2006.

MAJOR EXHIBITION SOLO:

2003 Exhibition of Paintings at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi , India. Inaugurated by Partha Basu.

2001 Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India. Inaugurated by Ramananda Bandyopadhyaya.

1987 Exhibition of Paintings at Academy of FineArts, Kolkata, India.

EXHIBITION DUO:

2004 Exhibition of Paintings with Ramakrishna Vedala at Prakrit Art Gallery, R.A. Puram, Chennai, India.

EXHIBITION PARTICIPATED:

2005 All India Annual Exhibition of Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad, India.

2002 (1) All India Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Arts & Culture, Kolkata, India.

(2) Inaugural Exhibition of Metropolitan Art Salon, Kolkata, India.

2000 (1) Exhibition 2000 of Abstract-Lion, Kolkata, India.

(2) All India Annual Exhibition of State Academy of RBU, Kolkata, India.

1995 Kala Mela of Birla Academy of Fine Arts & Culture, Kolkata, India.

1991 All India Annual Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India.

1990 Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery CB56, kolkata, India.

1985 State Fine Art Exhibition 85 by Deptt. of I & CA, Govt. of West Bengal, India.

1982 Contemporary Art Exhibition of WB State Academy, at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India.

INSTALLATION:

1996 Swagata (Ht. 16ft), Cement Concrete Sculpture, at PNB Rotary, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.

1995 Mother (Ht. 8ft), Cement Concrete Sculpture, at SOS Village, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India

1989 Bas-relief Mural 'Baul' and 'Radha' 9ft x 5ft each at CB56, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

Instalation of a Bronze Statue of TAGORE (8ft ht.) at THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA, India on 9 TH MAY, 2007 and participation in a group exhibition of Marziart International Galerie, Hamburg, Germany on June, 2007