Chandan Bez Baruah
(b.1979)
Chandan Bez Baruah has been working with a postmodern approach towards landscape but always with deep sensitivity. He uses his digital photographs as references for intricate woodcut prints, in a process that transforms a historic craft into new media image blends. In an ode to the Forestscapes of his native place, Assam, he builds an attachment between the place and himself through his works, bringing new context to print-making, via his atmospheric and documentative yet hermeneutic style. While engaged in his meticulous carving process he re-lives his emotions and memories connected with the forests, creating an intrinsic attachment between the frame and himself. His works are open to emotional interpretation and atmospheric transformation as he extracts images from the wood. His emotive involvement with each landscape moves the works beyond being mere representations of photographs, rather they open up a new dimension in the context of printmaking. He was honored as the first runner-up at the CIMA Awards (2025).
Some of his exhibitions include Solo: Elsewhere in Northeast India at Sridharani art gallery and Latitude 28, New Delhi, curated by Waswo X. Waswo. (2024); Art SG with LATITUDE 28, Singapore (2023); Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2022); India Art Fair with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2025 & 2022); ‘In the Blink of an Eye’, curated by Shruthi Ramlingaiah, Gallery Dotwalk (2022); ‘World Within World Without’, co-curated by Prima Kurien and Rahul Kumar, presented by Art Incept at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2022); ‘Maximum Minimum’ with LATITUDE 28, Artissima (Hub India) curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Oval Lingotto, Italy (2021); 2nd Print Biennale India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2021); ‘TIME WARP – an exploration vvof the unusual’, Gallery Veda, Chennai (2021); Solo: ‘If A Tree Falls (Somewhere in Northeast India)’, curated by Waswo X. Waswo, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2021); ‘The Print: Matter in Matrix’ presented by LATITUDE 28 at Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi (2020); 60th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2018-19); 1st Print Biennale India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2018); ‘On the Threshold of Time’, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi (2017); 56th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2017); Graphica International exhibition by 4bid gallery, Netherlands (2017); G5, International print biennale, Romania (2017); The first International Biennale of Lithography, Serbia 2017); 10th Triennial Print Exhibition, France (2016); Daejeon International Art Show, Korea (2015); 9th Triennial Print Exhibition, France (2014); International ICAC Printmaking Show, Mumbai (2014); Kyoto International Wood Print Exhibition (KIWA), Japan (2014 and 2013); 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print, India (2011); 49th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Bhopal (2006); Solo Exhibition of painting, drawing, print, and installation, A.C. Art Gallery, Kalakshetra, Panjabari (2004); Duet Exhibition of drawing, painting, print at Studio of Sri Somnath Hore Lalbandh, Santiniketan (2002).
The artist is represented by LATITUDE 28, New Delhi, India.
