Artist Profile
Devanjon Roy
A Kolkata-based artist whose work examines changing everyday social realities in India, modernity, consumer culture, and the relationship between national history and the present.
Featured artwork: Artwork 242
Awards & Honours
No named awards were listed in the gallery sources consulted.
Biography
Devanjon Roy was born in Kolkata in 1975. He received his BVA in 1998 and his MVA in 2000 from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and lives and works in Kolkata.
His practice examines changing everyday social realities in India, modernity, consumer culture, and the relationship between national history and the present. In his Gandhi works, Gandhi is placed alongside contemporary objects, creating a deliberate tension between historical memory and present-day life.
Education
BVA, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, 1998
MVA, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, 2000
Based in
Kolkata, India
Exhibitions & Residencies
Selected exhibitions
- The Altar of Convenience, 2013
- Gandhi’s Keepers, 2022
Residency
2016 artist residency under the Asiatic Museum, Nice, in collaboration with Akar Prakar.
Selected Works
Research sources
Note: public gallery sources use the spelling “Debanjan Roy”; the collection page uses “Devanjon Roy”.