Dr. Susmita Nandi

Dr. Susmita Nandi is an alumni of Faculty of Visual Art, BHU, from where she done B.F.A, M.F.A. and her Doctoral Research on “Calcutta Group (1943-53): A Study”, which is the first research ever completed on the particular topic, under the supervision of eminent Art Historian and Aesthetician Prof. Anjan Chakraverty. In her first attempt she was awarded JRF by UGC - and got the opportunity to teach History of Art and Aesthetics, take practical classes in Mahila Mahavidyalaya, and FOVA, BHU for successively three academic sessions. Her works were selected a number of times by Lalit Kala Akademy. She has to her credit one Solo Exhibition and many group shows of national and international repute, in Calcutta, Varanasi, Lucknow, Delhi, Hyderabad, London. She has translated a book “Madanlal’s Sculptures in Japan” from English to Hindi, which was originally written by the internationally acclaimed critic Toshiaki Minemura, in Japanese language. She wrote more than a bunch of articles and her research papers were published in reputed journals and in catalogues of artists.

She has presented papers and attended conferences, seminars, symposiums, art fairs. She has written and translated course material for IGNOU and invited for guest lectures in various other universities. She has been invited as a single editor of “KalaDarshan” which is an annual journal on art, soon to be published from Varanasi. She is actively engaged in teaching, guiding research scholars, literary activities and painting.