Five decades of Shipra Bhattacharya’s art come together in Kolkata retrospective
A retrospective exhibition titled 'In Bloom' has opened in Kolkata, celebrating fifty years of artist Shipra Bhattacharya's career. The exhibition features a wide range of her work, focusing on themes of identity, memory, and resilience through her signature visual language.
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The exhibition provides a significant cultural overview of a veteran artist's contribution to Indian contemporary art.
A retrospective exhibition celebrating five decades of artist Shipra Bhattacharya’s work opened at a Kolkata gallery on Tuesday (July 14, 2026). Titled In Bloom, the exhibition provides a complete tracing of the artist’s practice over the last 50 years, bringing together a large body of her paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Ms. Bhattacharya is renowned for her evocative portrayals of women and emotionally layered visual narratives. The veteran artist explores themes of identity, memory, resilience and transformation.
Recurring motifs such as flowers, birds, animals and ornamental patterns drawn from folk and indigenous traditions are featured in the exhibition, revealing the layered depictions of the artists’ worldview, which was informed by both personal experience and collective memory.
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