Santanu Debnath, born in 1995 in Betpukur, a village in West Bengal, completed his BFA and MFA from The Indian College of Arts & Draftsmanship and Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, respectively.
His solo ventures include Morphology of Water: A Project by Santanu Debnath, Emami Art, Kolkata (2025); The Simple Life, an online show by Emami Art, Kolkata (2020); and After Cities Fall, Nippon Gallery, Mumbai (2020). He has participated in several group shows including Re: Figuring, Emami Art, Kolkata (2025); India Art Fair 2025, New Delhi; There Are Tides in the Body, Emami Art, Kolkata (2024); All That is Hidden: Mapping Departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies, Emami Art, Kolkata (2024); 100 Yuva Sumbhava, Raza Foundation, Delhi, 2022; IMAGINARIUM, Emami Art, Kolkata (2021); GCAC Annual Exhibitions, Kolkata (2019-21); KCC Art Fair 2019; West Bengal State Academy, Kolkata (2018-19); ICAD Annual Exhibition, Kolkata, (2015-18); Institute de Chandannagar, Hooghly (2017); among others.
He won the Gita Das Award at the GCAC Annual Exhibition in 2019 and a Certificate of Merit at the West Bengal State Academy Annual Exhibition 2018-19. He received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2024 and the prestigious Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Scholarship 2020-21. Debnath was an artist-in-residence at the three-month Open Studio Monsoon Residency 2024 at Space Studio, Vadodara.
Santanu Debnath lives and works in Betpukur, West Bengal.
