Born in 1944 in West Bengal, Sibaprasad Karchaudhuri studied Applied Arts at the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, graduating in 1966. He took training in design under Helena Perheentupa, a Finnish designer at NID, Ahmedabad (1968-69) and studied Graphic Art under Geoffrey Bowman at San Jose State University, California (1984-85).
He has been the subject of several solo shows including The River in the Sky: Solo Exhibition by Sibaprasad Karchaudhuri, Emami Art, Kolkata (2025); The Dream of an Idiot, Emami Art, Kolkata (2023); Nymphs and Other Ethereal Images, Gallery Charubasona, Kolkata (2023); Tapestry, Drawing and Painting, Nandan, Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan (2016); and solos at Shajahan Art Gallery, New Delhi (1998); Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (1998); San Jose State University Gallery, California, USA (1985); and the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata (1973, 1968).
Notable group exhibitions include Vivartan: Fragments of Tradition and Continuity, National Gallery of Modern Art, Kolkata (2026); Anthropomorphic: A Group Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Calcutta Painters, Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata (2025); British Textile Biennial 2023; Group Exhibition of Calcutta Painters, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka (2010); the 43rd Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata (2010); The Art of Santiniketan: Masters and Emerging Artists curated by Sangeeta Ahuja and J. Chowdhury, Royal College of Art, London (2008) and S.A. Fine Arts, London (2002); Sixth Bharat Bhavana Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bhopal (1997); Selected Painters of Kolkata, TATA Centre, Kolkata (1979); Five Artists Group Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata (1978); Four Artists Group Show sponsored by American University Centre (1974); All India Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata (1970 – 2001); and All India Exhibition, Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata (1970 – 1980), among many others. His works have been presented by Emami Art at India Art Fair 2025; IAF EDI+IONS Hyderabad (2025); and Art Mumbai 2025, 2024, 2023.
Sibaprasad Karchaudhuri taught at the textile design department at NID (1981-82) and later at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (1990-2009). He also worked for two decades at the Weavers Service Centres in Varanasi, Bhagalpur, and Kolkata between 1969 and 1989.
Karchaudhuri lives and works in Santiniketan.
