Amritah Sen

Amritah Sen did her graduation and post-graduation with Painting specialization from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, India.

Though specialized as a painter, eventually she has extended her practice into Book Art, Paper Toys, graphic narratives and videos.

As an artist, Amritah is obsessive about stories. For long she has been curious about people’s stories, and narrative that create the larger parallel history beside its main course. This led her to study the flowing history, changing cultural aspects of the place where she belongs, that is Bengal. In last one decade she has participated in several projects that investigates deep into the history of Bengal and its people.

This curiosity made her work in collaboration with different art Residencies in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan, and of course within India. Amritah has shown her works frequently in group shows in different venues in India, South Asia, Europe and USA.

She has done ten solo shows till date in Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata (2005, 2007, 2010), Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai (2006), Project 88, Mumbai (2008), Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi (2007, 2010), Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata (2013, 2016, 2022).

She also has taken part in projects and residency programs amongst which Following the Box (2014), Boithok khana Narrative with Khoj Kolkata (2014),  Disappearing Dialogues, Art Ichol, Maihar, India (2016), Rebuilding Recaptured, Nepal (2017), 4Table Project, Gunehar, India (2019), Chitpur Local with Humdasti, Kolkata (2019), Legacy of Loss by Kolkata Partition Museum (2020), Speech Acts – a work on Mrinal Sen’s Cinematic Ouvre with Dr. Madhuja Mukherjee (2024), a Collaborative project with Ceramic artist Mudita Bhandari (2025), Indigo is Red, initiated by Weavers Studio Kolkata (2025) are a few.

Amritah has been a finalist for Sovereign Asian Art Award, Hong Kong (2018, 2020).

She currently specialized in making Artist Books. Amritah lives and works in Kolkata, India.