Puja Sarkar - Biography

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My name is Puja Sarkar; I am from Kolkata, a metropolitan city of India. I was born and brought up in Kolkata.  I completed BFA (Bachelor of Visual Arts) & MFA (Master of Fine Arts) (Specialization in Painting with 1st class) from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India and since then I have been working as a professional artist for 10 years. In 2010 I received a prestigious Award that was given by Book Art Press, New York, USA . I have participated in Five International Sponsored Exhibitions (Including Solo Show) and more than Forty Five National Exhibitions including (Thirty Two Sponsored Shows) and also participated National Painting Camp and Workshops. I have been invited by several organizations as honorable judge in their prestigious Art Event and Activities. My works have been reviewed by the leading National and International Newspapers, Magazines etc. and I have also been interviewed in electronic media as well. My website is – www.poojasarkarart.com

 

Beside my main stream profession, I founded an Artist Group in  2009  named “SMS” A Group of Artist (www.smsgroupartist.com) which has been continuously performing many Art Events, Shows, and Exhibitions for the past ten years quite successfully.

 

Beside my creative activities I feel urge to contribute to the society by standing beside the ill treated, helpless and deprived people and therefore I have been involved with various social events and activities since the beginning of my student life. I have been actively working as a social activist for the last ten years. To promote this noble cause, I founded a wing of my "SMS" Group named “SMS Group Social Works”. As “SMS” A Group of Artists, we contribute foods, clothes, books and stationery on regular basis to the orphanages and homes so that these deprived peoples can feel better and take a sigh of relief. As an Artist Group, we are in path of establishing a platform through which other peoples can also reach to these orphans and deprived peoples and help them to grow along with the society. A lot of sensible people have been joining their hands with us for the noble cause and without their support we couldn't serve or help to these orphans in a big scale .

 

I also work professionally as an Art Instructor, Illustrator, Interior Designer, and working as VIDA fashion designer (https://shopvida.com/collections/puja-sarkar).

Furthermore, since my childhood days I have been practicing yoga. I have also been doing spiritual practice for almost fifteen years. Hence I am working as a professional spiritual consultant by helping and guiding the needy persons to develop their thoughts and will power so that they can live a normal and optimistic life.

 

I always believe and focus on my work and fulfill by my own self. I think what I achieve in my life is the result of consequence of nourishment my own talent and relentless hard works with determinations, honesty, and believing in my inner self. I have been passing through tough hurdles and struggles of life, a lot of pains, and rejections. However, nothing can stop me to nurture and continue my creative journey and visualizing my dreams. Failures, rejections only make me more fearless and stronger. With zeal and zest I am working hard to reach my goal.   

All these journey and experiences help me to express myself through my creations.

My hobby is writing story, singing song, listening music, reading books.

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Innermost Core of All Loneliness Make Me Crazy to Paint

Puja Sarkar is an Indian Visual Artist, Curator and Social Activist based in Kolkata. She received B.V.A  and MFA degree in Painting from the Faculty of Visual Arts at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. After completing Art College, Puja has been actively working as a full-time artist for 16 years now. She is also a well-known art educator and engaged with various government and private institutions. Puja works for socio-cultural issues for the betterment/upliftment of the underprivileged children and contributes her best effort in this regard. Since 2009, she also founded ‘SMS - A Group of Artists’, a well-known artistic and social organization (www.smsgroupartist.com)

 

She got national award (Junior Fellowship) from Ministry of Culture, Gov.t of India in 2022. Her works have been exhibited in many international exhibitions like in Italy, London, UK, Korea, USA, Bangladesh (including solo shows) and participated in more than 100 national exhibitions, including eighty sponsored shows, and in national and international art fairs, painting camps, and workshops. She has been invited as a Judge in many prestigious art events in India.

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Indian visual artist and social activist Puja Sarkar is a feminist who adores artworks of Frida Kahlo, enjoys reinterpreting her life from a feminist perspective and combining pop art elements with surrealist ideas in a daring and colorful way. She paints to express herself, her untold story, and her feelings. Since childhood, she has faced a lot of restrictions, strict discipline, and loneliness. she was spending her life with detachment from outside incidents of the materialistic world. her intimation grew up with many intimate objects surrounding her with her silent like bags, combs, lipstick, mobile phones, safety pins, umbrellas, footwear, eyeglasses, etc., and some forms of human body parts that attract me. Her creations become quasi-autobiographical reinterpretations with inanimate objects which are converted into animated things with all her feelings and passion, like a living being.

As a full-time artist, she has been engaged herself to experiment with bright colours and ingenious use of textures which manipulated aptly in her paintings. Henri Matisse's colour scheme serves as an influence for Puja, who uses brushes, rollers, inks, and paints spontaneously to create a dazzling canvas.

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From my childhood, I spent my life a lot of restriction and discipline as well as very much loneliness. Consequently, spending life in this way I have detached from outside incidents in the materialistic world. Therefore, I was very much intimate with many objects which were surrounding me. I felt attracted to the shapes & colors of the objects. I made a friendship & an emotional attachment to these objects.

When I grew up and connected with materialistic world, then I felt an unchangeable intimacy with some specific objects which grew up with my silence from my childhood.

I am choosing my painting’s subject based on my experiences and feelings which gives me various impressions in different times. I find many kinds of innovative forms of the objects I use every day.

I can see many organic forms in these objects and find them through my imagination. The objects are lady’s bag, shoes, lipstick, comb, mobile phone, eye-glasses, and umbrella, etc. I brought my object as a metaphor. I crafted its objectivity and functionality in a different face. Sometimes I use these objects as a motif or as a simple form. Sometimes I use hybrid images in my paintings which is belongs consciously & unconsciously in my mind. Sometimes directly & indirectly I depict sexual passion between male & female. I put in presentations executions by breaking my surface and furnishing them with different materials, based on the concept.

My paintings have a narrative, symbolic quality and juxtaposition of images. I use bright, energetic & symbolic color & textural surface for execution of paintings.I will keep on bravely with contemporary fashion & passion, problem, incident, relations, feeling, cruelty, dread, social awareness, insecurity, greediness to frame my concept letter on.

 

I shall be going to present and transfer the 2 dimensional illuasional objects in the real world through my concept. Therefore, I want to transfer my concept from conventional medium to unconventional medium. As a freelance artist when I work with conventional medium or unconventional medium I would like to experiment with both mediums. It helps me to reach my works in a progressive way.

 

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