Rathin Barman (b.1981) examines the nuances of the modern built environment as a tool for understanding socio-political history. Architecture is characteristically perceived as a fixed entity, central to validating history yet simultaneously existing outside it. To Barman however, architectural form has also served as an anthropological tool, in building a collective recollection of a place and its people. For over a decade, Barman, trained as an engineer and then a sculptor, has been working on understanding urban sprawl and how the built environment and architecture adapts itself to a growing influx of people over extended periods of time.

Rathin Barman (b. 1981 in Tripura) lives and works in Kolkata, India. Education: 2010 Master of Fine Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata; 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Solo Exhibitions: 2023 Unsettled Structures, Arts Club, Chicago; 2022 There is Now a Wall, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2020 Dimensional Distortion, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2019 The Thinking Forest is Not a Metaphor, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2018 Exhibition at Art Basel, Basel; 2017 Making of a Home, Final exhibition of IFA Museum Fellowship 2016 – 17, IGRMS Bhopal, India; 2016 Home, and a Home, curated by Suman Gopinath, Singapore Biennale, Singapore; 2015 No ... I Remember It Well, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2014 A House With A View, Kochi-Muziris Biennale Collateral Project, Kochi; Landscape from Memory (Situation 1), curated by Diana Campbell, Dhaka Art Summit; A Goldfish Bowl, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore; 2012 Untitled, curated by Tom Eccles, Frieze Art Fair, New York Sculpture Park, New York; Untitled, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Massachusetts, US; 2011 And My Eyes Fill With Sand..., Experimenter, Kolkata; Involvement with Green & White, Sandarbh, Rajasthan. Group Exhibitions: 2023 Eyes of the Skin, Experimenter, Mumbai; 2022 Inner Life of Things: Around Anatomies and Armatures, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Noida; 2021 The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Drawing Salon at On Site, Bikaner House, New Delhi; 2020 City Tales, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, New Delhi; 2019 Deeper within its Silence, curated by Sumakshi Singh, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; By All Estimates, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Arts, Sydney; Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter, Kolkata; Burnish/Tarnish curated by Girish Shahane, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi; 2018 I Wish to Let You Fall Out of My Hands (Chapter II), Experimenter, Kolkata; 2016 Raster – Emerging from the Grid, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2015 Land of No Horizon – II, Experimenter, Kolkata; India Art Fair, presented by Experimenter, Kolkata; 2014 Urban Utopia, curated by Lyla Rao, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata; Midnight’s Grandchildren, Studio X, Mumbai; Land of No Horizon, Nature Morte (in association with Experimenter, Kolkata), New Delhi; 2011 53rd National Exhibition of Art; 2011 – 2012 Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai; The WhyNot Place Residency Show, Religare Art Initiative, New Delhi; 2010 Unbounded, Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata; Students’ Annual Exhibition, RBU, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. Residencies / Grants / Biennales: 2019 Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy; 2016 IFA Museum Research Fellowship; 2015 Lyon Biennale; Vancouver Biennale.