Recognition
Awards & honours
- 1961 — All India Award in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
- 1966 — French Government Scholarship in painting and printmaking
- 1975 — President’s Award in Painting, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society
Artist profile · Saraswati Foundation collection
Amitabh Sengupta
Across six decades, Amitabh Sengupta has moved between painting, printmaking, video and digital graphics, drawing on a life lived between India, France and Nigeria.
Practice & perspective
Across painting, printmaking and digital media
Born in Calcutta in 1941, Sengupta graduated in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in 1963. A French Government scholarship took him to Paris for painting and printmaking at the École des Beaux-Arts.
After further study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he worked in Nigeria, where he led visual-arts departments at two universities. His practice has continued to cross media and geographies, bringing abstraction, figuration and lived experience into conversation.
Selected presentation
Exhibitions
- 1968 — Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- 1989 — “Walls”, Galerie 88, Calcutta
- 1993 — “Surface of Time”, Sarala’s Art Centre, Chennai and Art Heritage, New Delhi
- 2025 — “Journeying the Life Experience Through Art”, NGMA Bengaluru
Public collections
Collection
The Saraswati Foundation collection includes a painting by Amitabh Sengupta. It offers a close view of the artist’s continued exploration across abstraction and figuration.
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Paintings in Collection
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