We are glad to announce the winners of the IMAGINARIUM 3.0 Awards, Exhibition and Residency 2023. From more than two hundred applications, our jurors have selected 3 artists for the awards of excellence and 10 artists, including the awardees for the IMAGINARIUM 3.0 exhibition in September.
Congratulations winners!
We are glad to announce the winners of the IMAGINARIUM 3.0 Awards, Exhibition and Residency 2023. From more than two hundred applications, our eminent jurors Jagdip Jagpal, Mario D’Souza, Mithu Sen, Paula Sengupta, and Ushmita Sahu have selected 3 artists for the awards of excellence and 10 artists, including the awardees for the IMAGINARIUM 3.0 exhibition in September. The jury has also selected 6 artists for the Residency program as part of the ongoing EA LOCUS IN FOCUS project.
Awards & Exhibition
Ushnish Mukhopadhyay (First Award)
Aritra Majumder (Second Award)
Richa Arya (Third Award)
Ahalya Rajendran
Ali Nakbhi
Deepak Kumar
Saroj Kumar Badatya
Sheshadev Sagria
Sumon Mondal
Swapna Halder
Residency
Chinmayee Bahera
Chris Basumatary
Deepanwita Das
Manmita Ray
Partha Banik
Vishal Kumar Gupta
Jagdip Jagpal is an exhibition maker and founder of Silvia’s Mother, a gallery which supports artists from the global majority. Prior to moving to India in 2017, to revamp the India Art Fair, she worked with Tate, The Whitworth and New Art Exchange. She currently Chairs UP Projects, a not-for-profit that curates and commissions public art.
Mario D’Souza is a curator and writer based between Goa and Kochi, India. He is the Director of Programmes at the Kochi Biennale Foundation and was on the curatorial team for the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022). He is also a resident curator at HH Art Spaces Goa. He was formerly the curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi.
Mithu Sen explores myths of identity and their intersection with the structures of our world, social, political, economic and emotional. Sen works fundamentally as a performer, tangling with the politics of language, disciplining of bodies, conventions of society, and polite impositions of the art world. She has exhibited in major international fairs and shows, including Sharjah Biennale 15, UAE (2023); Sonsbeek 20-24, Arnhem, Netherlands (2021); APT9-9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018) and Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2018). She recently had her major survey show at ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic, art writer and curator based in Kolkata. She graduated in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, followed by MFA and PhD in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. She is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Graphics-Printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. She taught as Guest Faculty at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata, from 1999-2003. She is a member of the Board of Studies at the Department of Visual Art, Kalyani University; a member of the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong and secretary of the artists’ initiative, Khoj Kolkata.
Ushmita Sahu, the Director and Head Curator of Emami Art, has worked as an artist, independent curator, art writer and scholar for several years before joining Emami Art in 2021 and has numerous national and international projects to her credit. She has participated in seminars, symposiums and talk series at several institutes, including Victoria and Albert Museum London. She is a recipient of the India Foundation for the Arts research grant for her work on the modernist artist-designer Riten Mozumdar.
