Biswajit Roy
I keep circling back to the idea of home - what it gives, what it takes, and what it leaves behind. Living in Hyderabad, my mind often slips back to West Bengal, to the textures and sounds that shaped me. That pull of memory is where most of my work begins. I paint to make sense of that constant in-between feeling: belonging everywhere and nowhere at once. The nostalgia, the ache, the quiet dislocation - they all find their way into my imagery. My practice has become a way of tracing my own roots, holding onto them, and sometimes questioning them. In every piece, I’m really just trying to map the strange, beautiful weight of being a migrant who is always halfway home.
Biswajit Roy
Contemporary Artist
About Artist
For Biswajit, home will always be his childhood village in West Bengal, because to him, home is “where I grew up,” where his family still lives. He feels deeply connected to his roots in Jalpaiguri and often brings that sense of belonging into his art, drawing on nostalgia and a longing for the place he calls home. Even after living in Hyderabad for over 15 years, Biswajit still feels like a...Read More
He feels deeply connected to his roots in Jalpaiguri and often brings that sense of belonging into his art, drawing on nostalgia and a longing for the place he calls home.
Even after living in Hyderabad for over 15 years, Biswajit still feels like an outsider. That quiet, persistent sense of ""homelessness"" has become a defining part of both his identity and his art. He senses it in how the locals see him, and it has led to a constant questioning of where he truly belongs.
This quiet displacement often finds its way into his work. He returns, again and again, to childhood memories, to the landscapes that shaped him, and to trees - banana, palmyra, jackfruit - that once stood like silent companions in his village.
Highlights And Achievements
Artist Education
B.F.A - College of Art & Design, Burdwan University, West Bengal, 2006-2010
M.F.A - University Of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2010-2012
Artist Awards & Recognition
Award of Sponsorship for Solo Exhibition, 29th National Exhibition of Contemporary Art 2016.
South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur( Ministry of Culture, Government of India), 2016.
All India Award’- 2 nd All India online art exhibition ,by Art Family 2022
1st Award of 4th All India Art Competition and Exhibition, State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad, 2023
Group Shows
Annual College group show Gaganandrapradrasan Sala, Kolkata 2010
Camlin Art Foundation, Patna & Kolkata, 2008 & 2009.
Aranya(Rad), Kolkata, 2012
Project Art Nexxt, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi & State Art Gallery In Hyderabad, 2012.
Shirishiti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2012
B.T.M.A Gallery , Kolkata, 2013
Mirage Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2013
Mirage Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2014
Aakar Art Academy, Hyderabad, 2015
State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2016
“Drawing Experience” Icon art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2017
“Family Album” Icon art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2018
State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2018 & 2019
Solo Shows
“Memories of Migration- in scarch of home”, curated by Noman Ammouri.
25th Feb to 2nd March 2017, Gallery Space, Hyderabad.
Art Camps
Art Camp In Rajasthan (B.T.M.A), 2012
Site Specific Installation with Paula Sengupta & Surekha, S.N.School 2010.
Workshop on Bronze casting arranged by College of Art & Design, Burdwan, 2010
Workshop on Wash Painting by Ratan Acharya in college of Art & Design, Burdwan, 2009
Paper Making Workshop in Kolkata, 2009.
Sold Artworks
Rooted Homelands
Biswajit Roy
Acrylic on Canvas
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Family Portrait - II
Biswajit Roy
Mixed Media on Canvas
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Willow Way
Biswajit Roy
Etching on Paper
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