Artist
Soumya Sankar Bose
Kolkata
Experimenter
Biography
Soumya Sankar Bose (b. 1990) reconstructs archival materials and oral history into photography, films, alternative archives, and artist books. His hybrid mode of practice interweaving long-term research and engagement with local communities including his own family history accentuates certain subaltern experiences of the marginalised yet resilient in post-Partition Bengal. Soumya Sankar Bose lives and works in Kolkata, India. Select solo and group exhibitions include Double Takes: ARAVARA, KADIST, National gallery of Jamaica, Jamaica (2026); She, Who Dwells in the Shadows, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2026); Columna Rota / Broken Column, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City (2025); SOAS Gallery, University of London (2025); Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (2025); Braiding Dawn and Dusk, Delfina Art Foundation, London (2024); When Images Take Care, Centre de la photographie, Genève (2024); A Discreet Exit Through Darkness, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, and Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai & Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2023); India Today, Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste (2023); Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast (2023); Where The Birds Never Sing, Experimenter Outpost, Kolkata (2021); Goethe-Institut’s Five Million Incidents (2019); Let’s Sing an Old Song, Experimenter Outpost, Kolkata (2019); Full Moon on a Dark Night, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2018); Photo Kathmandu, Nepal (2018); Houston Center for Photography, Houston (2018); Chitrabani, Kolkata (2016); Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata (2016); Goa Photo (2015); Delhi Photo Festival (2015), among others.
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