Supriyo Manna's (b. 1993, Kolkata) practice is informed by the flux in different geographical, psychological and philosophical spaces. He completed MFA in Painting from Visva Bharati University , Santiniketan in 2017 and a BFA from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in 2015. Currently beside his artistic practice, he is also a guest lecturer at College of Fine art- CKP, Bengaluru, India. 

 

As an artist and pedagogue, he is constantly mobilizing across different spaces and occupations. This mobility provides him with the different experiences of sites that he has been working with. There is an effort to mummify the land, an experience or a phenomenon in his works. His process involves the native knowledge system, derived from various history, body and memory. Supriyo is deeply interested in the fields like botany, anthropology, museology, architecture and urban planning.

 

His artworks have been displayed at  SD Ahuja Museum for Arts in Kolkata, the Students Biennale 2016 in Kochi, Shristi Art Gallery in Hyderabad, Kalakriti Art Gallery in Hyderabad, and at the Art Ichol in Madhya Pradesh among others. In addition to his exhibitions, Supriyo has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships. He was awarded the Space Studio Baroda Fellowship (2022-2023), Alternative Art School Fellowship in the USA (2022), Lalitkala Akademi Research Fellowship (2017-2018) and the Scholarship for Young Artists by the Ministry of Culture, India in 2016. 

 

Currently he is based out of Bangalore, India.