Alay Kumar Ghoshal was born in 1956 and educated at Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta.
He has participated and was invited in different group shows organized at National Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Delhi), State Academy, Academy of Fine Arts, Birla Academy Annual, Jehangir Art Gallery (Mumbai), Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery (Mumbai), Government of Rajasthan, and many other private galleries. Also participated in some workshops, for example, ‘YOUNG ARTISTS’ workshop organized by Max Mueller Bhawan, Calcutta.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alay Kumar Ghoshal was born in 1956 and educated at Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta.
He has participated and was invited in different group shows organized at National Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Delhi), State Academy, Academy of Fine Arts, Birla Academy Annual, Jehangir Art Gallery (Mumbai), Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery (Mumbai), Government of Rajasthan, and many other private galleries. Also participated in some workshops, for example, ‘YOUNG ARTISTS’ workshop organized by Max Mueller Bhawan, Calcutta.
Alay Kumar Ghoshal grew up in a household where the notion that drawing and painting could be a grown-up activity was foreign. So he was much surprised when he found himself enrolled in the GCAC for a degree in fine arts. He graduated in 1983, ranking first class first. Thereafter, after short stints as creative consultant for advertising in Ogilvy & Mather and Response Pvt Ltd, he joined Bartaman Pvt Ltd, where he was Chief Art Director until his retirement in 2014.
The sense of surprise, however, never left him. That is why he has painted in almost every medium and across all genres. His landscapes, portraits, and some of his abstract expressionist pieces are with collectors in India and abroad. He continues to paint, prolifically, and has recently taken to sculpting with clay and wood. He lives with his family in Kolkata, India.
