The work of Anindita Dutta explores the hidden tensions of lived experience through sculptural forms assembled from everyday objects. Shoes, purses, carpets, belts, and animal hides are cut, inverted, and stitched back together, revealing the scars and structures that lie beneath the surface. These acts of transformation expose the shadows within familiar materials, turning them into vessels of memory, resilience, and contradiction.

At the center of Dutta’s practice is an investigation of women’s lives across time. Bones, spines, and horns evoke endurance and resistance, while fabric, hair, and gold introduce gestures of tenderness and renewal. In these juxtapositions, she highlights the essence of duality: survival as both rupture and repair, vulnerability as inseparable from strength. Her works remind us that what is hidden or fractured can become a source of revelation.

Each object carries a history. Shoes become traces of passage, carpets unfold as inverted landscapes, belts bind and release, while hides and horns echo primal resilience. Together, these materials form a theater of shadows and light, where beauty and pain, destruction and creation, exist not as opposites but as interdependent forces.

Grants & Fellowships

• 2022 — TOY Fellowship, Max and Monique Burger, Burger Collection, Hong Kong

• 2022 — The NXTHVN Fellowship, New Haven, USA

• 2010 — Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist Residency Grant, Japan

• 2008 — The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

• 2005 — UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Fellowship

• 2005 — CAMAC Residency Grant, Marnay-sur-Seine, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2015 — Everything Ends & Everything Matters, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India

• 2014 — Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing, China

• 2013 — Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana, USA

• 2011 — Robert Bill Contemporary, Chicago, USA

• 2010 — Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

• 2009 — The Exit, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India

• 2009 — The Exit, Galerie 88, Kolkata, India

• 2007 — Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, New York, USA

• 2007 — Roger Smith Lab Gallery, New York, USA

• 2007 — Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkill, USA

• 2007 — Bed & Breakfast, Project 88, Mumbai, India

• 2005 — CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France

Selected Performances

• 2024 — प्रदक्षिणा | Pradakshina | Circumambulation, Solo Performance, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

• 2023 — प्रदक्षिणा | Pradakshina | Circumambulation, Solo Performance, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

• 2022 — Dance of Kali, Group Performance, Santiniketan, Visva-Bharati University, India

• 2018 — Limitation, Solo Performance, Palladium Mall, Chennai, India

• 2014 — India Art Fair, Solo Performance, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025 — Hudson River Museum, New York, USA (Upcoming)

• 2024 — Traveling Group Exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

• 2024 — Made Visible: Origins in Belonging, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, USA

• 2023 — AS-IS, ART06870, Greenwich, USA

• 2023 — RECLAMATION, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

• 2023 — Four Elements, New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

• 2018 — Intersection, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Beijing, China

• 2016 — Assemblage, By the Hand, Nebraska, USA

• 2014 — Dhaka Art Summit, Latitude 28, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• 2014 — India Art Fair, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India

• 2011 — Art Chicago/NEXT, Chicago, USA

• 2010 — All About Fukuoka, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

• 2010 — Structures Within an Intervention, The Guild Art Gallery, New York, USA

• 2009 — Hotter Than Curry, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Cochin, India

• 2009 — Contemporary India, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

• 2008 — Easing Border, Traveling Exhibition, New York, USA

• 2006 — Two-Person Show, ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Brazil

• 2006 — Queens International Biennial, Queens Museum, New York, USA

• 2005 — Earth and Fire, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA

Artist Residencies

• 2016 — Aguacate Studio, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

• 2014 — Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing, China

• 2010 — Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

• 2010 — International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY

• 2006 — KHOJ Kolkata International Workshop, India

• 2006 — Art Omi International Art Center, New York

• 2006 — Sacatar Foundation, Bahia, Brazil

• 2005 — Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA

• 2005 — CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France

• 1998 — Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India

Collections

• Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing, China

• Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

• Sasha and Ed Bass Collection, Texas, USA

• Arthur M. Sackler Private Collection, New York, USA

• Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Iowa, USA

• Keran and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

• Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, USA

• Marc and Kathy LeBaron Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

• University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

• Alva Greenberg Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

• And numerous private collections worldwide

Selected Bibliography

• The New York Times, July 28, 2023

• Vogue India, February 23, 2018

• The Hindu, February 9, 2018

• Hindustan Times, October 15, 2015

• Verve Magazine, July & May 2015

• BBC, June 9, 2015

• Berlin Art Link, April 28, 2015

• The Sunday Guardian, April 18, 2015

• Business Standard India, June 20, 2014

• Art-villa India, February 5, 2014

• The New York Times (Web), February 4, 2014

• Studio International, February 2, 2014; January 9, 2010

• The Bushwick News, May 11, 2010

• Shin Bijutsu Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2010

• The New York Times, December 15, 2006

• Financial Times, July 30, 2006

• La République, France, April 23, 2005