by Soumya sankar bose

Tuesday 30 December 2025 at 5pm

Soumya Sankar Bose works with long-term research, family histories, and community engagement. His practice explores subaltern lives in post-Partition India. Working across photography, film, and alternative archives, he builds hybrid narratives from archival fragments and oral histories. These works often become the only remaining traces of erased events and their afterlives. Moving between fiction and reality, his practice opens spaces of memory, desire, vulnerability, and identity.

Bose received the Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellowship in 2017 for Full Moon on a Dark Night. He was named Hello! India’s Emerging Artist of the Year in 2023. In the same year, he received the Louis Roederer Discovery Public Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles for A Discreet Exit through Darkness. From 2024 to 2025, he served as Artistic Chair at The Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Le Lieu Unique, the City of Nantes, and the Institut d’Études Avancées, France.