Sayak Mitra

Sayak Mitra (b. 1984, Southern West Bengal, India) is an indian artist engaged in multidisciplinary art formats ranging from traditional to contemporary new media art format. Sayak’s art addresses the issues of power, injustice, migration, inequality of wealth, and other socio-economical and political issues in the global scenario. Through paintings and videos Sayak explores how art can be the voice of these issues. In his childhood, various Hindu deity posters, calendars and communist-socialist voting propaganda wall graffiti art influenced him to understand his visual language. He graduated from West Bengal University of Technology in electrical engineering and studied multimedia from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Sayak also studied draftsmanship under some great art instructors in Kolkata. He was the recipient of several prestigious awards like; Atul Bose Award, Kolkata Charukala Utsav award etc. His artwork has been shown at CIMA/(Kolkata), Aakriti Art Gallery (New Delhi & Kolkata), Art Positive (New Delhi), Artists Centre (Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai) Art Prize (Grand Rapids), Dab Art (Los Angeles), Piano Craft Gallery (Boston); among many others.