Born in 1990 in Birbhum, West Bengal, Ruma Choudhury completed her BFA and MFA in painting from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
She has been part of several exhibitions including There are Tides in the Body: Indo-Swiss Group Exhibition, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2024; All That is Hidden: Mapping Departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2024; Departure, Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2020; Kolkata Festival, Calcutta Pavlov Hospital in collaboration with CIMA Art Awards 2019; Inside the Fibre, Artsacre Foundation, Kolkata, 2019; Raconteur, A.M. (Art Multi-disciplines) Studio, Kolkata, 2018; Images and Impressions: Profile and Persona of Pranab Mukherjee, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2017; I am, A.M. Studio, Kolkata, 2017. Her featured solo performances include h-airy strokes at Gallery Onkaf, New Delhi and Multi Hues at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2018.
Choudhury is the recipient of the India Artist Relief Fund, MAP in partnership with 1 Santhiroad, 2021; Musui Art Foundation scholarship, 2020; Best Painting Award, Academy of Fine Arts Award, Kolkata, 2016; and the National Scholarship, Government of India, 2015-16.
She is currently working as an independent researcher and has conducted paper-making workshops with Suchana Foundation in 2020 and Arts Acre Foundation, Kolkata in2019. She was also a part of Barbil Art Project III organized by Utsha and Arys, Odisha and has conducted a paper-making workshop in the project curated by Ushmita Sahu in 2017.
Ruma Choudhury currently lives and works in Santiniketan.
