Soumya Sankar Bose (b. 1990) reconstructs archival materials and oral history into photography, films, alternative archives, and artist books. His hybrid mode of practice interweaving long-term research and engagement with local communities including his own family history accentuates certain subaltern experiences of the marginalised yet resilient in post-Partition Bengal.
Soumya Sankar Bose lives and works in Kolkata, India. Select solo and group exhibitions include She, Who Dwells in the Shadows, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2026); Columna Rota / Broken Column, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City (2025); SOAS Gallery, University of London (2025); Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (2025); Braiding Dawn and Dusk, Delfina Art Foundation, London (2024); When Images Take Care, Centre de la photographie, Genève (2024); A Discreet Exit Through Darkness, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, and Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai & Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2023); India Today, Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste (2023); Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast (2023); Where The Birds Never Sing, Experimenter Outpost, Kolkata (2021); Goethe-Institut’s Five Million Incidents (2019); Let’s Sing an Old Song, Experimenter Outpost, Kolkata (2019); Full Moon on a Dark Night, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2018); Photo Kathmandu, Nepal (2018); Houston Center for Photography, Houston (2018); Chitrabani, Kolkata (2016); Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata (2016); Goa Photo (2015); Delhi Photo Festival (2015), among others.