Jahar Dasgupta is a senior and eminent painter from Bengal. After passing from Kalabhavan, Santiniketan in 1964, his first solo exhibition organized in Birla Academy. In the span of more than 40 years of his art journey, he has many solo and group exhibitions all over India and abroad as an invited artist. He is the founder member of a renowned artist group Painters Orchestra in Kolkata. He is also an active President in Academy of Fine Arts and Principal in Birla Institute for Visual & Performing Arts. Jahar Dasgupta regarded as one of the pillars of contemporary art and a significant contributor of the modernist art movement of Bengal.

A senior artist from Bengal whose canvases draw largely from the mystical world of nature done in robust and earthy colors, layered with richness of thought and pain. Regarded as one of the pillars of contemporary art and a significant contributor of the modernist art movement in Bengal. His paintings describes that women are the integral part and nature is closest to him.

He is rebel in his own world, challenging the barriers imposed by traditional ideas as well as contemporary theories. About his paintings, Jahar says, “I believe myself being an artist of social consciousness, not imposed on me by the society. It grew slowly within me as I came across the melodramatic relations and the complications of the society. The summation of the events of nations and its surroundings indifferently move my soul. The conscious mind glimmers to give rise to the paintings that play around within nature and society. Women play an integral part of my paintings. I revel in my own world challenging the barriers imposed by traditional ideas as well as contemporary theories. I flood my canvases with emotions through spectrum of colors and the time comes when I hear my inner voice and I stop. A new canvas begins with a new creation for every lovers of art.”