Emami Art is pleased to present Chance Remains of Another Time, an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Suman Dey, opening on March 20, 2026. This is Dey’s second solo, after his first solo presentation at the gallery in 2023.
This exhibition is a meditation on the passage of time. Pouring forth from an artist who has lived in a city all his life, the paintings featured in this exhibition gather his ordinary everyday experiences in urbanity and weave them into something extraordinary. In pursuit of documenting the memories and traces left by his interactions with certain physical spaces and natural forms, a new format emerges in the polyptych works presented for the first time in this exhibition. By arranging smaller, fragmented parts to make a whole, Dey welds together diverse, heterogeneous elements – images, sights, signs, and emotions -- within a single artwork. This act of amalgamation mirrors the fragmentation of both city structure and urban memory owing to rapid and relentless expansion. With this, he holds together notions of celebration and decay, memory and loss, all at the same time.
About the artist
Suman Dey (b. 1981) is a self-taught artist who works in the language of abstract art.
His solo shows include The Lost Fragrance of Memory, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2023; and exhibitions at Taj Bengal, Kolkata, 2011 and 2014; Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2014; ECA Art Walk, Kolkata, 2011; and Chemould Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2008. His duo exhibitions include ones at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2009 and 2015, and Silpi Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2008.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Fragments of Our Times presented by Open Window at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2026; Zero to Infinity presented by Open Window at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2025; There Are Tides in the Body: Indo-Swiss Group Exhibition curated by Damian Christinger, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2024; The Annual Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, 2022, 2018, 2017, and 2016; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2018; State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad, 2017; Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneshwar, 2016 and 2017; Annual Exhibition at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2016 and 2017; Emami Chisel Art All India Exhibition, Kolkata, 2016 and 2017; Annual Exhibition organised by the Rajya Charukala Parshad, 2016 and 2017. His works were presented by Emami Art, Kolkata at Art Mumbai 2025, 2024; India Art Fair EDI+IONS Hyderabad 2025; and India Art Fair 2026, 2025, 2024.
Dey was awarded the Jury’s Special Mention Award by the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, in 2022 and the Certificate of Merit by Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata, in 2017.
Suman Dey lives and works in Kolkata, India.
