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Emami Art is a leading contemporary art gallery and space for cultural production. Established in 2017 with a focus on a future-forward, complex, multi-dimensional approach that echoes South Asia's history, socio-cultural and geo-political narratives, Emami Art has an inclusive, symbiotic framework where profitability supports sustainable resource regeneration and public service. The gallery is a green building and strictly maintains free access to all policies. Emami Art represents emerging, mid-career and established contemporary artists. The gallery also has a dynamic programme of wide-ranging exhibition registers. Since its inception, Emami Art has curated and hosted large-scale to intimate shows and participated in national and international events and fairs. Our artists' works also comprise prominent national and international collections, including public foundations and museums. Amongst the other regular programming, the gallery's Locus in Focus provides a platform to local and regional communities through ongoing short and long-term projects. EA Learning integrates both physical and virtual interfaces. It helps the arts community free access to regular mentorship programs, workshops, residency opportunities and innovative educational activities that facilitate artistic development, help build collaborative networks and provides a supportive environment for emerging talent. Critical discourses, interactions, documentation and exchange are also essential to our mandate. Under the umbrella of EA Discourse, the gallery publishes artistic, creative and pedagogical materials. As part of our knowledge-making and archiving process, Emami Art regularly holds talks, seminars, panel discussions and conversations with artists, curators and key partners to establish a space for critical engagement. Deeply committed to promoting a regional, national and international agenda through innovative and alternative programming, emphasis on community and socially relevant engagements, institutional partnerships and more via a multi-year vision for the future, Emami Art is a catalyst of change, research, innovation and inclusivity.

Paper, for Ruma Choudhury, is not only a medium on which she creates; but also a work of art itself. Inspired deeply by ...
10/09/2026

Paper, for Ruma Choudhury, is not only a medium on which she creates; but also a work of art itself. Inspired deeply by nature, she gathers natural materials and creates her works using the various possibilities this collected matter provides. This work uses wild grass collected from around Birbhum, the land of red soil – the place she hails from and as a result, has always been surrounded by and inspired deeply by nature.

Slide 3 & 4: Wild Grass III
Burnt wild grass on paper made of sugarcane fibre
Overall dimension variable
A: 18 1/2 x 22 in.
B: 18 1/2 x 22 7/8 in.
Set of 2 works
2025-2026, Santiniketan

Slide 12, 13, 14, 15, 16: Wild Grass II
Burnt wild grass and synthetic glue on handmade paper made of sugarcane fibre
Overall dimension variable
A, B, C, D, E: 8 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. each
Set of 5 works
2025-2026, Santiniketan

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

Ruma Choudhury

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

In the first image we see Karuna Ketan Sen shopping at Lake Market on an ordinary morning, a shawl thrown over his shoul...
26/08/2026

In the first image we see Karuna Ketan Sen shopping at Lake Market on an ordinary morning, a shawl thrown over his shoulder, a jhola bag in one hand, a woman with a covered basket walking beside him.
Sen was an ICS officer, and for many years the manager of the Durgapur Steel Plant. Ray photographs him doing none of that. He is at the vegetable market, on his own errand, indistinguishable from any other man of his age doing the day's shopping. A vendor sits to the left with heaps of produce in front of him, another woman waits further off in the frame. Ray got close enough to know who Sen was, and photographed him at a moment when none of that mattered.

Slide 1: The Officer at the Market
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, Lake Market, South Kolkata

In the second image we see Chetla Bazar on a rainy day, umbrellas open, people moving between the stalls, a woman bending to pick through vegetables, the wet ground reflecting everything back.
The rain does not stop the market. It changes the pace of it. People bunch closer, umbrellas knock against each other, the buying and selling carries on under whatever cover is at hand. In analogue, the deep black of those open umbrellas is not a given. It has to survive every stage of the process, from the exposure in the street to the developing tank to the enlarger to the paper. Getting that black to hold its weight without swallowing the detail around it is where the craft of the photograph lives, and in this frame it does.

Slide 2: Rainy Day at Chetla
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1993, Chetla bazar, South Kolkata

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘆 | শহরনামা | 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙖 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Kushal Ray

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

Made for Each Other by Soma Das is a series of works depicting a couple navigating the mundanities of daily life and sho...
26/08/2026

Made for Each Other by Soma Das is a series of works depicting a couple navigating the mundanities of daily life and shouldering domestic responsibilities and life’s challenges together as equals. This work draws inspiration from a scene witnessed by the artist at the local market – where people often set up temporary stalls selling vegetables grown on their own land. Here, a couple rests against an exaggerated jackfruit, while an aeroplane flies overhead. A keen observer, Soma Das carefully studies the gestures and appearances of ordinary men, women and children, as well as their emotions, dreams and desires.

Made for Each Other IV
Gouache on Lokta paper pasted on canvas
35 5/8 x 24 in.
2025-2026, Kolkata

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘀 | নিত্য - নূতন: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Soma Das

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

Kushal Ray's Calcutta archive covers the early 1990s, a period when the city's public transport still ran on trams, cond...
22/08/2026

Kushal Ray's Calcutta archive covers the early 1990s, a period when the city's public transport still ran on trams, conductors, and paper tickets. শহরনামা draws from that archive, most of it unprinted until now.
In this image we see tram ticket inspectors and a conductor at the Lake Market stop, standing together on the road as they wait for a tram to arrive. Two inspectors in uniform face each other, one holding what looks like a ledger or a ticket pad. A conductor stands just behind them. They are doing nothing in particular, just waiting, and Ray photographs them in that wait. The uniforms, the postures, the tram infrastructure around them belong to a system that has since contracted to a fraction of what it was.

Slide 1: Lake Market Tram Stop, Kolkata
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, Lake Market, South Kolkata

শহরনামা gathers photographs from an enormous analogue archive that Kushal Ray built across the early 1990s, walking Calcutta daily with a single camera and a fixed lens. Most of these negatives sat unprinted for thirty years before this exhibition brought them into view. In this image we see tram operators taking a tea break on Chitpur Road. This is the interval between routes, a few minutes borrowed from the schedule. Calcutta's tram network ran on these pauses then. Much of none of this no longer exists.

Slide 2: Tram Operators on a Tea Break
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, Chitpur Road, North Kolkata

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘆 | শহরনামা | 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙖 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Kushal Ray

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

Between 1990 and 1993, Kushal Ray walked Calcutta with a Nikon FM and a fixed thirty-five millimetre lens, exposing over...
20/08/2026

Between 1990 and 1993, Kushal Ray walked Calcutta with a Nikon FM and a fixed thirty-five millimetre lens, exposing over two hundred and sixty rolls of film in a single year alone. শহরনামা brings together a selection from that archive, most of it printed for the first time. In this image we see a rickshaw puller asleep on the ground beside his cart on Lake Road in the early morning, a Haringhata milk van parked behind him, and a bhari, a drinking water supplier, walking past.

Three trades that kept the city running before it woke up, caught in the same frame by accident of proximity. The rickshaw puller sleeps where he stopped. The milk has arrived. The water is on its way. Ray was out early enough to see all of it at once.

Slide 1: The Officer at the Market
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, Lake Market, South Kolkata

শহরনামা gathers photographs from an enormous analogue archive that Kushal Ray built across the early 1990s, walking Calcutta daily with a single camera and a fixed lens. Most of these negatives sat unprinted for thirty years before this exhibition brought them into view. In this image we see an elderly woman sitting on a rickshaw near Kumartuli Ghat, holding a pitcher of Gangajal, the old houses of the neighbourhood visible behind her.

Slide 2: Untitled
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, North Kolkata

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘆 | শহরনামা | 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙖 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Kushal Ray

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

নীল জমি by Ruma Choudhury draws inspiration from the abandoned indigo plantations that are found along the borders of Bi...
20/08/2026

নীল জমি by Ruma Choudhury draws inspiration from the abandoned indigo plantations that are found along the borders of Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal in India. These farms, now non-operational, still have indigo plants growing on them sometimes. Choudhury dyes the different natural fibres – Lokta, cotton, straw, and sugarcane – in indigo and records how each fibre responds to and holds the dye.

Slide 1: নীল জমি I (Blue Land I)
Straw fibre, sugarcane fibre, Lokta fibre, cotton fibre, indigo, catechu, bamboo sticks, cane sticks, and gold leaves
Overall dimension variable
A: 76 3/4 x 38 in.
B: 77 3/8 x 38 3/8 in.
C: 78 x 38 5/8 in.
Triptych
2025-2026, Santiniketan

Slide 2: নীল জমি II (Blue Land II)
Straw fibre, sugarcane fibre, Lokta fibre, cotton fibre, indigo, catechu, bamboo sticks, cane sticks, and gold leaves
A: 77 1/8 x 37 3/8 in.
B: 77 1/2 x 39 1/8 in.

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗥𝘂𝗺𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘆 | 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Ruma Choudhury

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

Soma Das often draws inspiration from the regular sights she witnessed growing up, translating fond memories into painte...
20/08/2026

Soma Das often draws inspiration from the regular sights she witnessed growing up, translating fond memories into painted relief as part of her experimentation with a variety of mediums. This work in oil and enamel paint on metal features thirteen figures – men, women, children of a neighbourhood, their everyday lives inextricably linked by the network of water pipes and taps. Each person carries out their own morning ritual – be it brushing teeth, washing clothes, or collecting drinking water.

প্রতিদিনের সকাল (Mornings Everyday)
Oil and enamel paint on metal
73 5/8 x 54 in. approx.
2026, Kolkata

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘀 | নিত্য - নূতন: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Soma Das

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

Step into the stories behind the photographs with Kushal Ray at শহর শোনার আসর, a special event presented as part of his ...
20/08/2026

Step into the stories behind the photographs with Kushal Ray at শহর শোনার আসর, a special event presented as part of his solo exhibition, শহরনামা | Calcutta 1990–1993.

Date: Friday, 28 August 2026
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Venue: Emami Art, Ground floor, Gallery 3

OPEN TO ALL

Ray will revisit the images through the memories of their making, revealing the encounters, observations and lived experiences that shaped them. One of Kolkata's most significant photographers, Ray's reflections offer a rare glimpse into a practice built over decades through patience, proximity and an enduring engagement with the city's everyday life.

Register at the link in bio 🔗

Exhibition on view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Kushal Ray

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S T i r n a

Kushal Ray quit journalism in 1991 and gave himself to Calcutta's streets on foot, with a Nikon FM, a single lens, and b...
20/08/2026

Kushal Ray quit journalism in 1991 and gave himself to Calcutta's streets on foot, with a Nikon FM, a single lens, and borrowed film. শহরনামা is drawn from the archive he built in those years, most of it seeing print for the first time.

In this image we see a man and a child standing in front of a parked Maruti on a Shyambazar street, cows visible in the background, old buildings behind them. The two figures stand close to the car as if pausing mid-errand or mid-conversation. The cows occupy the road without contest. Ray photographs the scene as a single surface, no separation between people, animals, vehicles, and the old neighbourhood pressing in around all of it.

Slide 1: Street life in Shyambazar
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, Shyambazar, North Kolkata

In this image we see rickshaw puller Raghupati wading through a flooded Lake Market, pulling his rickshaw alongside an Ambassador half-submerged in the water, both man and vehicle pressing forward through the same waterlogged street.
Raghupati was not a stranger to Ray. The two knew each other by name. When Raghupati fell ill some years later, Ray tried to help. This is a photograph made from within a relationship, not from across a street, and it shows. The man in the water is not a type or a symbol of labour. He is Raghupati, pulling his rickshaw through the rain because that is his work, photographed by someone who knew him and would remember him long after this frame was put away.

Slide 2: Rickshaw Puller Raghupati
Epson Ultrachrome Pro Ink on Epson Enhanced Matte 200 gsm (Inkjet Print)
12 x 18 in.
1991, Lake Market area, South Kolkata

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘆 | শহরনামা | 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙖 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Kushal Ray

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

Ruma Chowdhury works creatively in paper pulp. Instead of using paper as a pictorial plane, she uses it as an absorbent ...
20/08/2026

Ruma Chowdhury works creatively in paper pulp. Instead of using paper as a pictorial plane, she uses it as an absorbent surface that carries the impression of other surfaces, environmental situations, and foreign objects. The separate paper panels are like the body of a vast landscape, revealing her experience of rural lands in and around Santiniketan, where she lives and works. This work draws inspiration from the marks left on relatively hard surfaces by continuously falling or flowing water.

Slide 4 & 5: Impressions of Water II
Lokta fibre, sugarcane fibre dyed in indigo, waste paper and gold leaves
Overall dimension variable
A: 19 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.
B: 18 1/8 x 12 5/8 in.
Set of 2 works
2025-2026, Santiniketan

Slide 6 & 7: Impressions of Water I
Straw fibre, waste paper, wood charcoal and gold leaves
Overall dimension variable
A: 18 1/2 x 13 in.
B: 18 3/8 x 13 in.
Set of 2 works
2025-2026, Santiniketan

Slide 8 & 9: Impressions of Water III
Lokta fibre, sugarcane fibre, straw fibre, and wood pulp
Overall dimension variable
A: 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.
B: 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
Set of 2 works
2025-2026, Santiniketan

Courtesy of the Artist and Emami Art

𝗥𝘂𝗺𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘆 | 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲
On view until 𝟭𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Ruma Choudhury

Richa Agarwal Ushmita Sahu শঙ্খরুপা বসু Sayanth R S

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