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Dr. Paula Sengupta (born 1967) is an artist, academic, curator and art writer. Dr. Sengupta teaches at Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata, where she is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Graphics-Printmaking in the faculty of Visual Arts. She is on the Board of Governors at Indian Institute of Management Shillong and Secretary of Kohj International Artists' Association.

Her artworks have been exhibited at Gallery Espace, New Delhi; Drik Gallery, Dhaka; Nehru Centre, London among others. She has been a guest lecturer at various venues including the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata [1999-2003]. She has also participated in several residencies including Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka in 2008, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Stuttgart, Germany in 2000, and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California in 1997-98. In 2007, Dr. Sengupta was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, while in 2011, she was longlisted for the Skoda Art Prize.

Education
After earning her Bachelors in Fine Arts (BFA) in painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, and her Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in printmaking from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, Dr. Sengupta earned her doctorate in the history of Indian printmaking from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan.

Artistic Career
Though trained as a printmaker, Dr. Sengupta expanded her artistic practice to work with installation, performance, text and design. Her repertoire includes broadsheets, artist's books, art objects, installation-performance work, and community art projects. Her creations are largely autobiographical, and explore themes intimately connected with her past and family history. She is usually concerned with investigating domestic spaces occupied by women and restricted by traditional gender roles, and interrogating the impact of colonialisation. Her choice of material also bears particular relevance to the work in question with everyday objects, lace, crochet, hand embroidery, chintz, muslin, woodblock, nakshi kantha and applique all being mediums she has experimented with.

Publications & Curation
As a writer, Dr. Sengupta has authored numerous articles for journals, university newsletters, and artist catalogs.The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking, published by Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012 ranks as one of best-known books. She also curated an exhibition of the same name, organized by Delhi Art Gallery, first shown in Delhi from Oct 13 2012 to Nov 3 2012, which then traveled to Kolkata, Mumbai, Baroda, Jaipur and Chandigarh. The exhibition charted printmaking's journey in India from its inception as a tool of the colonial enterprise to its success in the printing industry in the 18th century and the entry in the Indian bazaar print in the hands of the artisan as well as the art-school trained artist.

She is also author of Foreign and Indigenous Influences in Indian Printmaking, published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany in 2013.