Sudipta Modi is an Indian born British resident artist, works with photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, film, installation and performance.

​She works with concepts by employing tenacious examination of theatricality and cinematic languages in art, which explores how cultural history particularly art history, social practice interferes with psychoanalytic landscape. Her works are conceptual and researched which explores conventional and unconventional ways to utilise media and materials.

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​Sudipta is best known for her striking use of colours in her on-going self-portraits that have interrogated themes around multitudes of female representation and fluid identity in the art and visual media history entangled with social issues, ecological concerns resulted by colonisation, and globalisation in post colonial era. 

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She grew up in a large joint family, playing with cinema posters, film negative cuts, a variety of magazines, comics, newspapers, literature which exposed her to visual media from very early age that comes back in her artwork. As her family used to run a cinema hall which showed regularly national, regional and American films. During her childhood she had been actively engaged with cultural activities through education, local art schools and theatre groups equally being appreciated for her acting and art in Howrah a twin city of Kolkata the cultural capital of India. While she was only 17 her artwork was selected in the renowned art exhibition Rajya Charukala Utsav  1997, Kolkata, India which had left a massive impact on her to continue her career as an artist. Since then, alongside gallery based art practice, she regularly taught art in formal education and professional institutions and worked as a commercial artist to paint advertisements and signboards and as a spatial designer which is mainly a very male dominated area in India.​ During this time on a regular basis she worked for children from marginalised families which she left behind due to an institutional conflict. 

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Primarily a painter of abstract figurative style, Sudipta, first turned her interest in photography while she was painting various portraits of leading personalities as a cultural representative for her painting series Monologue (click to see) in 2009. Later, when she moved to London UK she began to explore photography in her art and made vibrant on-going self-portrait series My Bath (click to see) in 2012. 

This series she revisited to create installations, photo-montages and mixed media paintings to activate variety of social issues which has been a signature in her art over a decade now. 

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​Her subject references philosophy, art history, cultural history, nuclear culture, colonial, post-colonial and globalised influences, ecology and social practice with an avid advocacy for a utopian world.  

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​She collaborated with theatre actors, fine artists, street musicians, and live-media performance with native islanders to save the coral reef; also worked on new-media installations. Her installations comprise kinetic laser light, voice-over scripts, drawings, photo images, videos, scripted performances, and painting which create a multifarious narrative of time-lapse of cultural histories.

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Sudipta received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Wimbledon College of Arts, University Arts London, UK.  

Her works are exhibited and collected in both public and private in the UK, Europe, Latin America and India, and across the globe. Sudipta was commissioned to make art, design and brand exhibitions for museums and works as a lecturer in Higher Education in London, UK.

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