Avi Roy

Well-defined strokes, strong colours and soft highlights are the main characteristics of Avi Roy's works. His human subjects sport sombre, oval faces with expressive, yet inscrutable eyes. His use of colour and shading is almost surreal, but remains in harmony with the picture. Patterns, symmetrical and neat, as well as insect and animal motifs appear alongside his figures, perhaps anchoring them to our world.

“Portraits of any person can express what he or she is as well as what he or she is not. This notion of trying to figure out people through portraits is what I want to explore in my work – explore what it would be like to be them. If I were the only human being God had made, what would it be like? It is this eternal search to know the inside that I want to through my work.”

“Our Human life is a convulsion to situations, reactions to actions and so on. So there is a message in every work I do - this very important to me.”


“My compositions are dominated by the Spiritual Meaning of Symbols and
natural elements because today we are moving away from the nature and spiritual. We are becoming more and more gazette oriented. We are forgetting what we are and our origin.”

2000 Post Diploma in Graphics (Print Making) Kala Bhavana, Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan

1998 Bachelors of Visual Arts (Western Painting) Govt. College of Art, Kolkata

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Avi Roy's Online show Created By Arts Galore, Southgate, MI

2008 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

2008 Art Folio, Chandigarh

2008 Bingk Art, Pune


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Nirvana Presents Tryst with Colors Palm Court

2009 Passage Group Show Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

2009 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy Art & Culture, Kolkata

2008 Jehangir Art Gallery

2007 Anvil, Two man show, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

2007 I.N.F.A.C, Academy of Fine Arts

2007 Art Trust, Chemould Gallery

2005 Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh

2004-05 A B C, Winter Show by Apparao Gallery at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi

2002 A show by CHITRO BHASKAR GHOSTI at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

2002 44th National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi

2001 GRAFFITO, An Exhibition of Prints at ART FOLIO, Chandigarh

2001 Osaka Art College, Japan

2001 Information Center, Kolkata

2001 Camberwell College of Art, London

2001 National Arts School, Sydney

2001 Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan

2001 AIFACS, Kolkata

2000 AIFACS, Kolkata

2000 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy, Kolkata

2000 Saga Art College, Japan

1999 Show Of Prints, Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan

1999 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

1998 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

1998 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy, Kolkata

1997 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

1997 Information Center, Kolkata

1997 'An Ode to Independence' organized by Apparao Gallery, Chennai (shown at Delhi & London)

1997 All India Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Festival, Kolkata

1997 AIFACS, Kolkata

1997 Annual Exhibition, Society of Oriental, Kolkata

1996 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

1996 Information Center, Kolkata

1996 Annual Exhibition, Society of Oriental, Kolkata

2005 Award for Best Painting; Annual Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh

1998 College Award, Govt. Art College, Kolkata

1998 Certificate of Merit (Printmaking) Govt. Art College, Kolkata

1997 College Award, Govt. Art College, Kolkata

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