Swaraj Das

Contemporary Artist

About Artist

"Swaraj Das paints with the spirit of a poet — distilling life, light, and longing into fluid abstraction. The shifting moods of a city after rain. A village waking up to filtered sunlight. The quiet mystery of changing skies. Swaraj Das captures these moments in flux — not to document them, but to distill the essence of life and nature through his meditative brushwork. Born in 1983 in Kolkata, Swaraj works primarily with transparent watercolour, acrylic, and oil on canvas and paper, exploring themes that lie somewhere between the seen and the intuited. His paintings don’t aim for realism; they breathe. Shapes melt and merge, colours bleed into each other, and forms emerge — only to dissolve again — like memories that refuse to stay still. There’s rhythm in his abstraction, and deliberate choreography in the chaos. Cities and villages, their people and seasons, flicker across his canvases as flickers of internal weather. His language is one of suggestion: overlapping tones, unexpected silences, soft luminosity, and atmospheric depth. For Swaraj, making art is a search — for peace within noise, clarity within blur, structure within fluidity. It is through this search that his paintings become quiet meditations. He consumes life fully — its joy, unpredictability, stillness — and returns it as visual poetry. Every work is a trace of lived experience, reorganised through colour, mood and memory."

Highlights And Achievements

Artist Education

B.V.A from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta University.

Artist Awards & Recognition

2014: International Award - Juried Exhibition, Louisiana Watercolor Society, USA.

2013: Achievement Award - International Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA.

2012 President's Award - 33rd International Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA.

2012 1st Place Award for Best Watercolor Painting - Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA

2002: Ravi Jain Memorial Scholarship, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata

Artist Collections

Works held in gallery and private collections in Delhi, Mumbai, France, Amsterdam, the United Kingdom (UK), and private collections worldwide.

Group Shows

2022 – Singapore Affordable Art Fair

2022 – South Korea, Busan Art Exhibition

2022 – Miami, Art Expo New York

2022 – New York, Art Expo Exhibition

2022 – Sydney Exhibition with The Other Art Fair

2022 – Germany, Frankfurt, Discovery Art Exhibition

2022, 2021 – Switzerland, MAP Montreux Art Exhibition

2019 – Senlis Art Festival, Paris, France

2019 – Helsinki, Wanna Satma Exhibition Hall, Tatanis Art Fair

2019 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA

2018 – Singapore Affordable Art Fair

2018 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA

2018 – Dadun Fine Art Exhibition, Taiwan

2016 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA

2015 – Dadun Fine Art Exhibition, Taiwan

2015 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA

2015 – The Dan Art Gallery, Taiwan

2014 – Houston Watercolor Society, USA

2013 – Louisiana Watercolor Society, USA

2013 – Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

2012 – 33rd International Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA

2012 – Pennsylvania Watercolor Society’s State Museum, USA

2012 – Alternative Art Gallery, Gorgon

2010 – Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 – Sridharani & Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

2010, 2008, 2007 – India Habitat Centre (Open Palm Court), New Delhi

2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002 – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

2006 – “Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow”, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata

2006 – 68th & 69th All India Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Kolkata

2006–2005 – Annual Exhibition, Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

2006, 2005 – W.B.S.A Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 – Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata

2007 – Camlin Art Foundation, New Delhi

2003 – A.I.F.A.C.S Regional Art Exhibition, New Delhi

2001–2006 – Annual Exhibition, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata

Solo Shows

2022 – Indian Art Festival, Thyagaraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi, India

2019 – Indian Art Festival, Thyagaraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi, India

2019 – Nehru Centre, Mumbai

2018 – Indian Art Festival, Thyagaraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi, India

2018 – India Habitat Centre (Convention Foyer), New Delhi

2015 – Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2014 – Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai

2014 – India Habitat Centre (Open Palm Court), New Delhi

2013 – India Habitat Centre (Convention Foyer), New Delhi

2013 – Association with Hotel Galaxy Shopping & Spa, Gurgaon

2008 – Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

2007 – India Habitat Centre (Open Palm Court), New Delhi

2006 – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

Sold Artworks

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Enchanted Pond of Water Lilies

Swaraj Das

Oil on 100% Acid free Reg paper

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Blossoms on the Blue

Swaraj Das

Oil on Canvas

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