Deep Dive | Rathin Barman

in Conversation With Experimenter Director Prateek Raja on His Solo Exhibition Dimensional Distortion

Rathin Barman (b. 1981) lives and works in Kolkata, India. He earned a BFA and MFA in sculpture at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata after a degree in engineering. Selected solo and group exhibitions include: The Thinking Forest is Not a Metaphor, Experimenter (2019); Deeper Within Its Silence – Form and Unbecoming, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (2019); By All Estimates, 4A Center for the Arts, Sydney (2019 Forthcoming); Art Basel, Basel (2018); Making a Home, IFA Museum Fellowship project at IGRMS Bhopal (2017); No...I Remember It Well, Experimenter (2018); Home, and a Home, Singapore Biennale (2016); Lyon Biennale (2015); Vancouver Biennale (2015); A Goldfish Bowl, Gallery SKE (2014); And My Eyes Fill with Sand... Experimenter (2014); Landscape from Memory (Situation 1), Dhaka Art Summit (2014); Frieze Art Fair New York Sculpture Park (2012); DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Massachusetts, USA. Barman’s work is found in collections including the Devi Arts Foundation, New Delhi; Singapore Arts Museum; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi. Barman was awarded the 2016 IFA Museum Fellowship and was artist in residence at Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy, 2019