Shubhojoy Mitra (Nepal)
Digital Artist
After joining the Government College of Arts and Crafts in the early nineties, I held two exhibitions of drawings and paintings at L’Alliance Française de Calcutta (now L’Alliance Française du Bengale) in 1992 and 1995 with artist and friend Sudip Banik.
During this period, I also travelled and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal and was associated with the late artist Kalyan Rai (https://www.facebook.com/kalyanrai69) from Dharan who studied in Viswa Bharati, Shantiniketan before moving on from Nepal to Japan and US. I took part in an annual exhibition at Kathmandu with him and was associated with art workshops at Kamal Niwas of the Jesuit Training Centre initiated by Fr, Cap Miller for a while.
In the late nineties, I went fully digital experimenting with multimedia and programming and created my first Virtual Art Gallery to exhibit art by different artists including my own creations. In late 1999, I helped co-organize THE 1ST INDIA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION at Oxford Art Gallery, Calcutta representing 12 artists from all over the world (Introductory article: http://www.lastplace.com/EXHIBITS/India3/InsideOutside/insideoutside1.htm). Exhibition documentation: http://www.lastplace.com/EXHIBITS/India/)
