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Anupam Roy is a multidisciplinary artist based in India. Anupam’s practice extends to drawing, painting, photography, poetry, poster making, graffiti, raw video documentation, journalistic documentation, and performance. Throughout this kaleidoscope of mediums, he reflects on his experiences and observations in the hinterlands of rural Bengal where he was born, the urban landscapes of metropolitan Delhi where he currently lives and works, as well as in Central and Northeastern India where he has engaged in regional political inquiry and propaganda praxis. His artistic investigations conceptually address the limits of contemporary politics of representation in visual culture, focusing on subaltern subjects and their precarious condition in the contemporary capitalist system.
Anupam studied contemporary visual art at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and later did his second MA in Fine Art from D Montfort University in Leicester, UK, for which he received a Charles Wallace India Trust Long Term Scholarship (2019-2020). He is the recipient of the 2018 FICA Emerging Artist Award, which culminated in his solo exhibition in Delhi, India in 2022.
Anupam is an active member of several collectives, including Panjeri Artists’ Union, Jinn (an independent publication), Khandera Art Space in Dadri (where key collaborators include Labani Jangi, Neetu, and Deepchand, and a few of his students—Arzu Tarafder, Khusboo Biswal, Tathagata Paul, Shiv Sankar, and Sayak Mohanta), and the Locust Review, an international collective based in the U.S.
