West Bengal Charukala Utsav, 2022
November 22nd 2022
Awarded as "Shilpi Maha-Samman" (Honorary Award) by West Bengal Charukala Parshad, Kolkata.
Freedom & Awakening
July 6th to July 8th 2022
Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC)
Participated in the workshop camp-cum-exhibition titled "Freedom & Awakening" at the newly restored Alipore Jail located in Kolkata to mark its inauguration as a Heritage space for the public.
Kolkata: Run in the Alley
September 10th to November 13th 2022
Marres Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Curated by Manuel Klappe & Praneet Soi
The exhibition Kolkata: Run in the Alley offers a vision of the metropolis Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta) in India. The project stems from the artist in residence project CARF, which in recent years brought a series of Netherlands-based artists to Kolkata to explore the city under the guidance of artists from Kolkata and its environs. Over the course of these work periods the artists befriended each other. In Marres they make a joint exhibition where they merge techniques, disciplines, and perspectives to reflect an intensely layered image of this city.
Artists: Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Tim Breukers, Arunima Choudhury , Gautam Choudhury , Sarbari Roy Choudhury, Bonno van Doorn, Sanchayan Ghosh , Nobina Gupta , Ganesh Haloi, Somnath Hore, Henri Jacobs, Manuel Klappe, Maartje Korstanje, Sachi Miyachi, Riten Mozumdar, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Sumantra Mukherjee, Ruchama Noorda, Srikanta Paul , Ganesh Pyne, Piyali Sadhukhan & Saumik Chakraborty , Ushmita Sahu, Amritah Sen , Sarbajit Sen, Paula Sengupta, Praneet Soi , Arthur Stokvis, Koen Taselaar.
THE DARK EDGE OF GREEN, June 18th to August 20th 2022
A retrospective-scale solo exhibition at Emami Art, Kolkata, curated by Nancy Adajania.
The exhibited works here are spanning from across three decades between 1995 and 2022. Besides paintings rendered both in acrylic and vegetable colour; exclusive works on fabric, ceramic, and enamel plates are also on view.
FEMININE FACETS, June 25th to July 31st 2021
An online exhibition of small-format works that reveal the feminine worlds as seen and imagined by six eminent artists from Bengal, KG Subramanyan, Rabin Mondal, Jogen Chowdhury, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, and Arunima Choudhury.
Arunima Choudhury works meticulously using botanic colours on handmade papers which she makes herself with womanly care and patience. The organic medium gives a unique palpability and tenderness to her portrayal of woman.
FEMININE FACETS, June 25th to July 31st 2021
An online exhibition of small-format works that reveal the feminine worlds as seen and imagined by six eminent artists from Bengal, KG Subramanyan, Rabin Mondal, Jogen Chowdhury, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, and Arunima Choudhury.
Arunima Choudhury works meticulously using botanic colours on handmade papers which she makes herself with womanly care and patience. The organic medium gives a unique palpability and tenderness to her portrayal of woman.
Constellations, Feb 13th to March 13th 2021
Constellations brings together eight contemporary artists from Bengal featuring Jogen Chowdhury, Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya, Arunima Choudhury, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Arindam Chatterjee, Anjan Modak, Tamal Bhattacharya and Soma Das, and presents a range of practices.
The crises-laden world that mirrors brokenness also mirrors hope. The paintings of the celebrated senior artists in the show reaffirm this deep-rooted truth. Arunima Choudhury’s paintings in vegetable colours on handmade papers, create a languid world in which the figures are variously portrayed in their intimate, private spaces, undisturbed by the noises of the modern world.
• Exhibited ceramic works at Studio Calyx Ceramic Studio, Kolkata, India. February 2020.
• India Art Fair - 2020, 2022
Delhi.
Exhibited paintings done with vegetable colour on handmade paper in the exhibition booth organised by Emami Art.
• Charaiveti , an exhibition of works on Fabrics , Handmade Paper with Natural dye & Ceramics with Sutanuka Giri at Weavers Studio ,Centre for Arts, Kolkata, West Bengal, 14th -18th March,2018.
• Spring Fete -- Art/ Life Style, 2nd - 4th February,2018, Spring Fete, Nari Seva Sangha, Kolkata, West Bengal.
• Participated a Teacher's workshop on indigo vat making, dyeing and application on cotton fabrics under Facilitator Linda LaBelle, A Greenville,Sc based weaver and natural dyer. The workshop had been an initiative of SUTRA TEXTILES STUDIES international event to celebrate, promote and revive natural indigo, 9 - 12 November,2017,Calcutta.
• Since June 2016 onward joined and have been practicing ceramics to explore a new medium related to sculpture making and Life style accessories under guidence of Tamal Bhattacharya, a ceramic and mural artist.
• Conducted workshops for the students of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Kolkata in 2015, 2016 and 2017 as a guest faculty to teach enamel jewellery making at Sur Enamel Factory, Kolkata. Workshop consisted of the entire process from cutting metal sheets to processing, then painting with ceramic colors on the metal sheets and firing them, and finally beautify them to make a complete jewellery.
• Demonstration (Painting) at SUTRA’s (www.sutratextilestudies.com)COLOURS of NATURE, ICCR, Kolkata,February, 2014.
• Participated in Two Workshops at Sutra’s Colours of Nature, 2014 on age old Traditional Methods and Techniques of Natural Dye in India and South-East Asia.
• ‘RED’ with Madder and Onion Scale conducted by Ruby Guznavi, Bangladesh.
• Heritage Ajrakh painting with Indigo. Madder, Lime conducted by Suffiyan Khatri from Ajrakhpur, Bhuj, Kachchh, Gujrat, India.
• Worked at ‘Nabadisha’ a peace project for the under privileged children run by Kolkata police and
Seagull Foundation for Arts, Kolkata on creative and Performing art activities along with regular
studies at the same time participation of these children in the exhibition, workshop and programs with the students of mainstream schools, 2011 onward.
• A week long workshop at Valley School, Krishnamurthi Foundation India, Bangaluru 2011-12.
• Attended handmade paper making and Book binding Workshops at Nirupama Academy of Handmade Paper under guidance of Anupam Chakraborty, Kolkata, 2014.
• A week long workshop at Rajghat Besant School, Krishnamurthi Foundation India, Varanasi, 2011.
• Traditional Rice paper making Workshop under Sangbu Tshesing Bhutia from Kalimpong,West Bengal,2008.
• KHELA, a solo exhibition of paintings, prints, enamel paintings by Seagull Art & Media Resource Centre, Calcutta, 2007
• Workshop by Bengali creative women in different fields organized by Eastern Zonal Cultural
Centre,Kolkata, 2005
• Art workshop and seminar, organized by Zest group, Muri, Jharkhand, 2004.
• Painting Workshop by Lalit Kala at Santiniketan, 2004.
• "Y2K" a painting workshop organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture on the Eve of New Century on 31st December, 1999.
• ‘Dhokra’ workshop (Lost Wax process) organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture and conducted by renowned artist Jaydev Baghel from Bastar, M. P. India in 1995.
• ‘Dhokra workshop’ organized by Bihan,a center for visual and performing arts for boys and girls at Naihati,West Bengal and conducted by artisans of Birbhum, Bengal in 1983.
• Fressco Painting done in Italian process, Kolkata in 1983.
• Terracotta Murals done in Naihati and Santiniketan, India in 1982 and 1984.
• Conducted Street mural paintings by the students of Oral School for Deaf Children, Kolkata on their School Project ‘Keep Your City Clean and Beautiful’, 1988.
• Publication: ‘Understanding Rabindranath Tagore through his songs in School’ by Gungchill Publication, 2011.
• Catalogue and special item writing in the periodicals are some of my favorite Expressions.
