Jayshree Chakravarty

Jayashree Chakravarty (b. 1956) completed her Graduation at Visva Bharati in the sprawling natural environs of Santiniketan. She pursued her Master’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, where she was exposed to an urban sensibility. She was also an artist in residence at the Ecole d’ Art, Aix-en-Provence from 1993 to 1995 where she was influenced in the formative years of her practice by the French movement Supports/Surfaces, especially by Claude Viallat, and also had conversations with some of the group members at the time. 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.

Jayashree has had exhibitions both in India and Internationally, with shows at various museums, including the Musée départemental des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France; The Tagore Centre, Berlin, Germany; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, 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 the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida & New Delhi. The artist lives and works in Kolkata, India.