Ahuja Museum For Arts

S.D.AHUJA  FOUNDATION , annual exhibition  for final year art students - An exhibition of paintings at Ahuja Museum for Arts from 1 July 2012  Till 31 August 2012 at Ahuja Museum for Arts, 26 Lee Road, Calcutta 20, # 40034974, 22894745; All days from 12:00 noon – 7:00 pm.

The S. D. Ahuja foundation has created a fund to organise an annual exhibition for final year art students. The first annual exhibition for final year art students will be held from from 1st July 2012 to 31^st August 2012. The aim of this exhibition is to provide an opportunity to art students to exhibit their works.

This year, 18 students were selected for the exhibition, from Kala Bhavan - Visva Bharati, Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Kolkata and Indian College of Art & Craft, Kolkata. 39 paintings of these 18 student artists are being displayed in this exhibition. These 18 student artists are : Abir Mukherjee, Alik Mondal, Bipul Roy, Gangotri Pal, Goutam Pramanick, Jayanta Das, Kaushik Sarkar, Koushik Pal, Milton Bhattacharyya, Minajul Islam, Moupia Chakraborty, Nirajana Roy, Piyali Karmakar, Priyanka Paul, Ratul Chaudhury, Sujoy Malakar, Sumana Das, Susmita Chowdhury.

Ahuja Museum Of Arts is a private, one-of-a-kind Museum. It houses and displays the personal art collection of Mr. S.D.Ahuja consisting of over 1500 artworks of over 195 Artists. This collection has been acquired over the years and consists of art from India as well as from around the world, particularly Asia. The current selection of over 35 pieces will remain on display until 31st August 2012. The next set of 50 paintings will be put up from 1st September 2012.  It will be our endeavour to encourage all residents and visitors to Calcutta to visit the Museum.