Sudipta Das

Sudipta Das is an Indian contemporary artist born in Silchar, Assam, a landscape shaped by water, displacement and recurring return. These early experiences fostered a sustained engagement with movement, memory and survival that continues to inform her artistic language. She later studied at Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, where the rhythms of learning, making and remembering rooted her practice in both realism and quiet reflection. Now based in Vadodara, Gujarat, she carries these layered geographies into her work, where personal histories unfold into broader reflections on belonging and loss.

Das works primarily with paper sculptures and immersive installations, using processes of tearing, layering and mending to echo lived histories of fragmentation and repair. In recent years she has expanded into ceramic miniature human figures, where fire, breakage, and endurance become part of the making, mirroring fragile yet persistent bodies shaped by migration and waiting. Her practice dwells on exile, refuge, climate uncertainty and collective memory, tracing the tension between disappearance and survival.

Her works have been presented in exhibitions including The Surface of Memory, Soaring to Nowhere, The Exodus of Eternal Wanderers, Home at India Art Fair and Crossing Many Seas at the Mittal Institute, Harvard University. Through residencies across India, South Korea and Taiwan, she has developed a material language grounded in slowness, care and vulnerability. Her work has been supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Alpine Fellowship, the Laxmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Das lives and works in Vadodara.