Artists Groups & Collectives

Society of Contemporary Artists

Members: Sanat Kar, Nikhil Biswas, Somnath Hore, Bijan Choudhury, Arun Bose, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Sunil Das, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Dharamnarayan Dasgupta, Manu Parekh, Ajit Chakraborty, Aditya Basak, Amitabha Banerjee, Sailen Mitra, Anil Baran Saha, Ashoke Bhowmik, BR Panesar, Dipal Banerjee, Pranabranjan Ray, Sadhan Chakraborty, Suhas Roy, Sunil Kumar Das, Sushil Gupta, Swapan Kumar Das, Manoj Dutta, Pradip Moitra

Active Period: 1960-Present

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Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata, 1960

The initial gathering of the group, Society of Contemporary Artists, was propelled by the need for appropriate facilities and an independent space for young artists to exhibit their work. The only two artists’ groups that were functional in the city of Kolkata in the ‘50s were Artists’ Circle and Chitrangshu,

Society of Contemporary Artists

Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata, 1960

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