Shanu Lahiri

Born: (1928-2013)

Education/Training: Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata.

Exhibitions: It was as early as 1950 that she held her first solo exhibition and by the early sixties she had won a scholarship to Paris, following which she held a string of exhibitions home and overseas.

About:

Shanu has done several series of paintings dealing with various themes drawn on tradition and popular imagination. She has at the same time a keen sense of social commitment as illustrated in her pieces on gender issues and bride-burning. Her intensely personal experiments with posters and collages are complemented by her activist inclinations which inspired her to mobilize street-children into painting on the walls of Kolkata. Not just a painter, she remains a voice of the city’s conscience.